Girl Fight

Last night, my friends and I went to a dance club. We always go. We love having a few drinks, dancing and just being together. Most nights everyone is usually well-behaved, but there are those few special nights where things  might just get out-of-hand. Last night was one of those nights.

We were minding our own business, dancing on the dance floor with huge smiles on our faces and drinks in our hands, when all of a sudden, a girl weighing probably 105lbs soaking wet, pushes into my best friend; not once, not twice, but three times. After the third time, my friend turns around and screams excuse me (obviously a little ticked off at this point). What happened next was kind of a blur.

All of a sudden this girl jumps in my friends face and starts screaming, swinging her arms all which ways. It didn’t look good and I knew my friend wasn’t going to have amazing patience in just a few seconds. When the girl finally pushed my friend backwards, I knew a girl fight was about to break out.

To make a crazy and long story short, I jumped in the middle and handled the whole situation without anyone getting punched, but what I question is the security at the club.

About 10 minutes before this ‘almost girl fight’ happened between my best friend and this little monster, there was a confrontation between two guys at the other side of the bar. This confrontation got immediate attention from the 20 bouncers lined around the dance floor. These men actually knocked over girls dancing to get to the spot where the fight almost broke out, breaking up the fight before it even got started and kicking out the both participants. Why did this not happen with our girl fight? Why did the bouncers pretend to not see that my friend almost got punched in the face?

After the little monster finally walked away, I turned to the guy next to me and apologized for ruining his dancing space. He then said to me, “Oh, it’s okay, I kind of wanted to see a girl fight.” I looked at him in complete disgust. Was that the reason why the bouncers didn’t automatically stop the tiff? Do bouncers at club not pay attention to the ‘girl fights’ because they want to see them?

There had to be some reason why the 20 huge men wearing ’security’ on their shirt, surveying the whole dance floor with flashlights, just happened to ‘not see’ this happening. How could this be? Does this have something to do with sexism? Is this right? Fair? Do the bouncers feel a girl fight would provide entertainment, for themselves and the clubbers?

I do not have any answers for you, but next time you are at a club, look out for something like this. Maybe we women can start doing something about it.

(These YouTube video’s might be a little rough to watch. I couldn’t finish watching them, but notice how in both videos there are many people watching and cheering on the fight. In the second video, a guy is taping it and even says at the end ‘oh man, my battery is dying’… obviously he loved what he was witnessing.)