John Tierney’s article, “A Cold War Fought be Women” (2013), argues that “intrasexual competition” and the need for young women to meet the “standards of sexual conduct and physical appearance” are the most important causes of the pressures that women in our current society face. Tierney supports his argument with data from research on the interaction between women in situations that would trigger competition or indirect aggression. Tierney’s purpose is to argue that “stigmatizing female promiscuity” is administered to women by other female acquaintances in order to prove that the pressures that young women face are not to be “blamed on the ultrathin female role models” that are broadcasted in the media, but instead are a “result of competition