Eris was the Greek goddess of discord, who was not invited to the "Feast of the Gods" thrown by Zeus and Hera on Mt Olympus. Of course she found a way to ruin the party for others anyway, by rolling the Golden Apple of envy into the place with the inscription, Kallisti, which means "For the fairest."

A competition ensued which led the goddesses to compete for the apple, where in the Judgment of Paris, three sequential steps of sexual attraction are laid out for us by the story: The offering of Aphrodite's beauty in the hand of Helen of Troy, the offering of Hera which was ownership of all the world's property, an elevation of the man in rank among other men, and finally the offering of Athena, which was the ability to win every battle Paris would fight.

This instinct in women is one common way of expressing envy of other women while disdaining men and the tendency to "ruin the party for everyone" when jealous of certain people within a social group.