Female psychopaths poisoning workplaces

Years ago, I played a weekly bridge game with a regular group which included a very experienced executive who found herself in a top job in nurse education. Week after week we heard stories of outrageous behaviour by her new colleagues, a lesbian mafia which played favourites, adjusted the rules, and carved out jobs for their underqualified mates.

The lesbian mafia is a well-documented part of the mean girl story. Solid research such as this study from Creighton University education professor Barbara L. Brock found that in female-dominated fields like education and nonprofits, lesbian women sometimes engage in relational aggression, using exclusion or gatekeeping to secure scarce leadership roles.

Here's a classic story from one of the many online chats on this topic: "A lesbian clinic manager in a women's health centre hoarded resources, excluding junior lesbian staff from trainings by spreading rumours of 'unreliability.' She'd berate them privately for 'not pulling weight,' then publicly praise her favourites-leading to two resignations in a year. It was queen bee syndrome, using her position to control the 'sisterhood.'"

Of course, there are many lesbians who don't behave like this but it is hard not to conclude that the influence of such women in our senior bureaucracies may be driving anti-male policies which allocate almost all health funding to women, and show zero interest in targeted male suicide policies, or in boys' education. Of course, there are plenty of heterosexual male-hating feminists also contributing to this policy prejudice against men and boys.

But the bottom line is the key victims of these mean girls in our workplaces are other women. There's a certain irony in the fact that our feminist-controlled culture claims to have the interests of ordinary women at heart yet ignores this serious problem in order to promote the eternal virtuous women façade.

There's one person who knows more than most about what's going on here – Dr Fiona Girkin.

Regular readers will be aware of the stormy weather faced by this former University of Tasmania lecturer after she featured in a video with me a few months ago, describing her work teaching police the facts about two-way domestic violence. Local feminists launched an attack on Fiona, using the ABC to make this a national news story. The end result has been that Fiona has now moved on and set up her own consultancy – offering help to people dealing with mean girls in the workplace.

This is actually one of Fiona's original areas of expertise. She did a PhD on Female Primary Psychopaths in the Community Services Sector after years spent working in these female-dominated workplaces doing counselling and working in various management positions. In the process she encountered a woman she later came to identify as a "female psychopath", a disorder characterized by callousness and lack of empathy, where women use verbal abuse, manipulation, and relational aggression to bully and intimidate others.

Talking to others in this female-dominated workforce, Fiona realised her experience was far from uncommon and went on to do her PhD research examining the prevalence of female psychopaths in community services and the impact on male and female colleagues of their behaviour.

I've had another video conversation with Fiona about this fascinating topic where she explained the destructive role played by these bullies in their workplaces, particularly on their female colleagues, given that women place such value on their workplace relationships.

It's great to know Fiona is now out there, willing to lend her expertise to people who find themselves dealing with this type of workplace bully. She plans not only to work with individuals needing help but also to offer seminars on managing toxic behaviour of women in workplaces and in relationships.

It's important she gets the message out that it is women suffering most from our refusal to address the vile behaviour of this type of bully.

We need to call out the feminist protection racket which is allowing mean women to get away with toxic behaviour which shouldn't be tolerated. Once again Fiona is showing her courage in taking on a topic many are keen to keep under wraps. She deserves our support. You can contact her here.