Is Erika Jayne Dodging Some Accountability For Why She Struggles with Women?
Erika Jayne once told Katherine Edwards that she's struggles to make female friends bcuz girls were mean to her in middle school and because she “looks a certain way.” She made is seem like the problem mostly lies with other women instead of anything to do with her own personality. Then, in classic Bravo fashions, the show cuts to clips of Erika openly describing herself as “cold,” calling herself a “cold bitch,” and even saying she doesn’t understand empathy, all of this reinforces the icy persona she projects on camera.
Do you see the contradiction? On a one hand, Erika explains her difficulty with women as something rooted in past bullying and other people’s reactions to her appearance. She even said she has male friends because women are catty. And yet she was always being catty and chatty and gossipy with her male glam squad. And also she repeatedly embraced traits that naturally make emotional closeness and friendship harder.
-----> The juxtaposition makes it seem like she wants sympathy for feeling excluded while also taking pride in being emotionally detached.
I don't want to dismiss her middle school situation but her own self-described coldness likely contributes to the relationship problems she keeps describing. The contradiction that glares out comes from the fact that she often emphasizes the first explanation while seeming less reflective about the second.