That doesn't explain her catty and petty nature with other women though...
Usually in cases like you just described the woman will be nasty and try to be overbearing towards men...Now i'm not saying in her personal life that doesn't happen but in the public eye it seems like she primarily goes at women...so there is something else that happened in her younger days to make her so focused on going on women....even with the fukked up situation with her father
Remember, Aretha's mother divorced her father and left to live in another state. Some people say that it wasn't abandonment, it's just that C.L. Franklin had so much power that the mother couldn't get custody. I also once read a book by someone who was on the gospel circuit back in the day with C.L. and Aretha who said that C.L. used to rape/molest Aretha when he was drunk because she looked so much like her mother. You add up being abandoned by your mother and being raped by your father because you look like her, you're going to have someone who has issues with women.
the elders used to always say, her first child was from her father, and that her father and James Cleveland used to mess with little boys
I knew C.L. messed with little girls, but I didn't know he messed with little boys too.