  From Eric: The majority of women, when attempting to execute an effective insult, will resort to pointing and shrieking incoherent venom before realizing they are too stupid to both stand, point, AND yell. They fall to the ground, still pointing and shrieking. Even those with the mental capacity to remain on their feet AND form insults with proper subject-verb agreement (an estimated 16%) usually resort to hurling barbs with all the coherence and nuance of an episode of MTV's Room Raiders (which I haven't seen, really, but I'm SO sure it totally sucks).
Molly and Dana, however, have taken insulting to the next level, for women: not completely inane. This puts them in the top 1% of women insulters, or the bottom 10% of men. From the trash novel I'm reading by Marian Keyes: I was all for bluntness. Well, actually, that's a complete lie, I thought it was one of the most overrated things I had ever heard of.
But Karen behaved as if being blunt was a great virtue, the kindest act she could do for you. Whereas I felt there were some things that didn't need to be said or shouldn't be said. And that sometimes people used "I'm just being honest" as an opportunity to be malicious. That they opened the nastiness floodgates, were viciously cruel, completely trashed a life and then absolved themselves with an innocent face and a plaintive, "But I was only being honest. " 
