Gossip

[Pah]

Humans are, by nature, storytelling animals, as evidenced by the wealth of myths and tales we have been telling about our world and ourselves for thousands of years. But when you examine those stories closely, a number of common themes leap out, not the least of which is sex, lies, and the moral status of the perpetrators, victims, and bystanders

Michael Shermer, in an unpublished letter to the editor

Is this true - that gossip is primarily "sex, lies, and the moral status of the perpetrators, victims, and bystanders"?

Bob

 

[cardero]

Well, I didn't want to say anything but I think that people who gossip are usually people who envy other people lives and whose own lives are not that interesting enough that they have to create or fabricate situations with other people's lives to validate their own but REMEMBER, you didn't hear that from me.

 

[kreeden]

I agree with Carrdero . Some people appear to base their own self worth on their's short comings . We all have your good points and our not-so-good points .