From time to time we hear the saying ‘women can be our own worst enemy’; meaning that often the most hurtful situation for a woman is created by another woman. Like you, I wonder why we cannot be more helpful and supportive towards each other.
Recently I watched a three-part TikTok video shared by a Jamaican woman chronicling a horrific experience of being drugged and raped and the catalyst was a woman she called friend. Here is what I transcribed from the audio:
“You know the saying, ‘keep your friends close and your enemy closer?’ It couldn’t be truer, it couldn’t be more true than in this particular situation.
