this is not universal.

the woman mafia is my informal name for a herd-like kneejerk behavior i've noticed in a large amount of women to defend some female behavior criticized by a man who subjectively finds it undesirable, whether said kneejerking women themselves engage in the aforementioned behavior or not.

skinny women whiteknight fat women, christian women defend secular feminists, married women defend single women and vice versa, liberal women defend conservative women (and have gigantic blindspots like pretending prolifers are all male incels to rationalize this while conservative women pretend all prochoicers are wannabe fuckboys), older women defend younger women even when there's no obvious self-interest (such as a virgin man defending cheating men because he wants a chance to be high status and do it himself some day.)

when a man is in an argument online, women (from what i've seen) flock majorly to one side and sing as a chorus about how, say, AF/BB doesn't exist and they don't believe in it (and then some also say it does but it's a good/justified thing), 80/20 isn't real but at the same time it is and it's a good thing, it's ackshoally your personality that's causing your problems, et cetera. i never see them going at each other over these internal discrepancies in discourse; i don't see the woman that denies hypergamy debating the one that accepts but justifies it and having a back-and-forth about it; nor are there RP women blaming blooper women for treating men like shit the way blooper men do to other men. so what gives? shouldn't we be seeing on ppd half the women there tearing into the other half the way men go at it?

another quick and dirty example: why do random women seem so keen to defend sluts even when they themselves aren't sluts or when they're already married? on the flip side, men aren't racing to whiteknight incels (even i as a blackpiller find most .is and looksmax users insufferable and feel they would do more harm than good to a healthy-minded partner and to their male friends), male cheaters, male fuckboys at the same rate; while groups of men that do exist, they are by far not the majority and other groups of men are equally eager to shut them down. i've discussed this before with u/Zastale, so tl,dr:

there is an r/inceltear run by men, an r/menslib run by men, but there is no r/sluttears run by women or r/feministtears run by women or female MRA sub im aware of. i don't cry around demanding these things - in fact, only thing i wish is that men looked out for one another more and women were more willing to police one another for mistreating men as i dont care for slut-shaming - but i'm pointing out the absence of an expected equivalent if men and women are supposedly similar.