When I worked with a girls’ leadership group at Girls Inc's Holyoke Teen Center, I met two best friends, Zoraida and Muneca. When I asked how they’d met, they laughed. Turns out they only became friends after they got into an all out fist-flying, hair pulling beat down. They’d always thought the other one was stuck up, even though they'd never talked.

Now that hatin’ is a national pastime, the only thing strange about this story is that the former sworn enemies ended up friends.  All too often girls are pitted against each other, or simply see each other as competition rather than as a possible friend. Oh, people say she’s cute? She must be a snob.  She’s making moves? Must be a phony. Making money?  What a bitch.

Now as much as I know all this, I’ve been really impressed with how the FSF forums have kept a positive vibe.  (Some haters even go on there and hate on it for not having enough hate!) Girls talk about everything on there, and they have each other’s backs, too.   So when I got a chance to interview Claw, I thought I’d have some fun and throw her some of the questions that folks on the forums were talking about, so readers could get a sense of Claw as a regular person.