When one or more women derides another woman or group of women for not following a (often meaningless) social
convention, generally motivated by obvious jealousy or an unwillingness to see someone of their own minority group get ahead. This is similar to the "
crabs in a bucket" phenomenon where crabs will damage one another in order to be
the last one killed.
Jennifer: "Did you see Kate all over that guy at the bar?
What a slut! And she dresses so slutty too!"
Alex: "
Geez, talk about your
internecine female vindictiveness."