Backbiting as a purely female character trait thus develops in himself all these abilities of acute and caustic observation. She turns her mental abilities to looking out for and analyzing the funny sides and shortcomings of people, which does not require much effort of imagination and which still prevents her mind from becoming rusty. In addition, slander is like a platonic outcome for women, which consoles them a little in the fact that life has not given them what it promised. This is essentially the old fable of the too-green grapes: a woman whose lot too often falls into a life of care and hardship; a woman who would like to have an affectionate husband, but must endure the power of a rude man; who would willingly put on a beautiful dress, but must be content with a dress that has gone out of fashion; who would like to run a salon, but has not a single admirer, seizes on this petty revenge, the only one available to her is to note the shortcomings of someone who has exactly what she would like to have, and she pretends that she finds them despicable and pitiful those whom she secretly envies. In a word, she deliberately puts on the dark glasses of slander, through which she sees in the dark light the happiness of others and the joys of others. Men, on the other hand, who have other ways to rise in the eyes of people, who can give a more practical and direct application to their activities, are much less likely to fall into slander. Women who live in big cities are also less slandered, where life interests are broader, their mental horizons are broader, where they receive more varied impressions of public life, theaters, etc. Women who are engaged in mental work are also less slandered, which serves as a good distraction from this false direction of the female mind..