Sometimes women are the ones who don't support each other

I guess I should start by introducing myself, because a lot of people will probably come to my blog for the first time today. My name is Jade and I am a self-published author, I am currently working on my second book, which will be a paranormal romance/urban fantasy. My first book was a horror book, which hasn’t been read by many. It may be because it’s a short novel (only 56 pages), or it may be because I’m female. I just want to start off by saying that I’m not a feminist, although I do sometimes share their point of view on some topics. I think that most people can find topics that they agree with or disagree with, and that’s normal. Today I logged into twitter and saw that some woman’s topic was trending. I clicked on it, only to be reminded of something that happened to me. From 2010 to 2012 I worked in the automotive department of a large retail store. I was the service writer, which meant that I had to sell services to the customers. I had to learn a great deal about tires and oil changes. I even learned how to perform oil changes and change tires and would do that sometimes. Well, I changed the oil mostly, sometimes the tires were too heavy for me. Sometimes when I was writing tickets for service a woman would pull up and demand to speak to a man. Men never did that to me, only women. Not all women were like this, but the ones who were decided it was best to be vocal about it. The woman would also make faces at me or say things about me if I would change their oil. They didn’t want to believe that a woman was capable of changing oil. There was one day in particular where I actually felt like commenting back. Everyone had gone to lunch accept for the new guy and two people needed to be in the shop at all times, which meant I was in there signing off on things. He wasn’t sure what he was doing yet, so I had to help him out. There were three ladies in the waiting room, all of them where pressing their faces against the glass. I had told them beforehand that we were short staffed and they agreed to wait for the work to be done. Finally, one of the people came back from lunch, which meant that I could go on break. When I walked back inside the building the ladies all said very mean things very loudly. Basically, they thought that I was flirting with the guy, and that I was causing the long wait. I was angry. I wanted to tell those ladies that what they said couldn’t be further from the truth. I wanted to make those women feel bad for the way that they had treated me, but I knew that I wouldn’t get through to them. If I would have said anything to them I’m sure they would have gone to management. I tried not to let it bother me, but to this day it still does. Those women thought it was okay to undervalue me. They probably would have thought that it was okay for the male cashier who worked inside and ignored most of the customers to get paid more than I did too. The point of me writing about this is because many of the people complaining about people not treating them fairly in the workplace are the same people who not treating others fairly. If you want to support women and women’s rights, why not start with being more understanding? This type of behavior is the reason that JK Rowling decided to write under a man’s name, the same reason that female books sell primarily to females. Anyway, I’m sorry for posting such a long rant. I just felt like the things I had to say needed to be said. Please go out and support a female author today.