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My mom gossips to meeeee. But usually what she talks about is things that're happening with people, it's all true stuff, and never talked about in a negative light.
I used to have lots of girls gossip about me. Why? Because I'm too pretty for my own good. Hehe. Seriously though, I find girls my age *18 and under* do it mostly because they're threatened by another female. So they'll gossip and in that gossiping time, make up lies, bend the truth, etc. Women can be very competetive, especially with other women. I think gossip is used as an attempt to level the playing field.
I think gossip is fine until it becomes cruel. Passing along information about someone you both know is fine, making something up, not cool. Not everybody wants to discuss world issues when they get together. My dad and stepmom came to visit last night, we briefly discussed what was going on in the government in Canada and then switched to discussing what everyone was doing for the summer, mutual friends, family members, etc.
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