Whenever I voice my opinion in a group conversation, the group always seems to turn on me. Usually it’s women.

I was at my friend’s baby shower yesterday. There were 6 other women there, my friend was the only person I knew. We were all sitting at a table talking and playing baby shower games. I mentioned a game we played at my baby shower called “Love or Labor”. After I described it, one of the women shot it down saying she wouldn’t want to play that and everyone agreed. Then when we were playing a guessing game about my friend and her husband, one of the questions was “who takes out the trash?” When I said I guessed her husband, the same woman replied she choose a different answer and everyone agreed with her again.

This always seems to happen to me when I voice my opinion in a group of women. Another example is when I was in trade school, I was in a group with all the other women and they were talking about how drinking is so much different after you turn 21. I dared to go against the group and argued it’s not really that different from being 20. Then everyone in the group immediately turned on me and they all insisted it was completely different. It’s like they turned into a hive-mind with sole purpose of trying to shut me down and ostracize me from the group. I went to the bathroom and cried.