The Girl-Fight Crisis
The explosion of fighting video clips all over the web has lastly caught the interest of the mainstream media, such as a CBS2HD news reports on the enormous quantity of movies of women fights on the internet. It’s about time these clips attracted the interest of a lot more people.
The piece of writing, entitled “Teen girl fighting videos go viral“, analyzes how more and more fights involving girls are taking place in schools all over the country, with 70% of reported school fights increasingly being female vs female.
Video clips of true fights from street fights to gang fights are easily found on Myspace nowadays, and just about any minor who opens up a Youtube account telling lies regarding their age have access to this series of videos.
The post builds up on the theory that seeing these kinds of video clips (not just on Myspace, but on quite a few other internet sites as well) can make minors more likely to learn similar behavior mainly because there are plenty of men and women who’ll do anything whatsoever to “get in the spotlight”. Now i am going to speculate there may be more to it than that. Just lately a buddy confided in me that women in the us and Canada are practically trained to hate each other. Perhaps what she truly stated was that women are taught to be very competitive amongst each other, to put down other young women. She mentioned that one female can nearly by no means have faith in what comes out of some other girl’s mouth if, for example, that woman provides a compliment. As an case in point, she mentioned that when a woman tells her “I like your outfit,” it may well suggest that this woman dislikes her clothes, or that she’s jealous simply because she wants the shirt or piece of clothing, or it could also imply that she genuinely does like the shirt.
This colleague remarked that only the word of close, true friends might be dependable. This turned out to be an epiphany for me, because as a man I had usually thought that ladies got along quite well. Obviously, if girl confrontations are any indication, this particular ill will that has tended to fester below the surface is starting to come out in ugly and violent ways progressively more. In the event you truly want ugly, take a peek at the video clips of women gang fights; these go even farther in terms of violence.
Is there something that could be done?
Probably the most troubling points about these types of clips is the fact that another person had to be also there filming it, and yet they do nothing at all to prevent girls fighting along with other raw encounters. Sometimes, this really is rather inexcusable as grown men in many cases are present in the course of these altercations. They’re able to split the girls, contact the police, any variety of things. But taking a fast look at some videos tends to make it clear that bystanders are receiving some type of perverse satisfaction from seeing 2 individuals work on hurting each other. Oftentimes, they’ll even try to make encouraging remarks or have a good laugh at the fighters. I’ve commented on the terrible behavior of bystanders before in other articles, and it would seem all the more unreasonable when young women are participating.
Unfortunately since girl fights are fast-becoming a significant social dilemma, it is up to every person in society to undertake their portion.
The ABC article I pointed out within the introduction comprises advice from school officials on the best method to move forward in terms of keeping their own children from engaging in street fights. The only truly helpful suggestion they gave was for parents to speak with their children in regards to the issue. It’s rather funny too, mainly because they help to make the point that you ought to ask a lot of questions, instead of simply expressly forbidding your children to do it. That is some strong parenting guidance that is applicable to numerous facets of youngsters’ day-to-day lives. It is been said often that it is essential for mother and father to talk to their kids, and to keep in mind that one half of communicating can consist of listening! As a parent, I have found that kids (my child, at the very least) really do listen closely should you take some time to slowly and gently describe the reason why they ought to or should not do something. Of course, this information will probably be preaching to the choir as I am sure most mothers and fathers who already have wholesome conversation with their teens don’t need to worry about their children, particularly girls fighting videos and agression which will be posted on the web.
One ineffective hint they presented would have been to tell teenagers to report any “unacceptable” clips as if “that” will do things any better. Even in the event they did, the video clips would just be flagged as not appropriate for minors, and kids can still watch all of them with quite easily. And that is just Youtube along with other well-known websites; you can find almost certainly many other websites that provide video clips of girl fights as amusement.
I’m sure that, as usual, this affection of violence can be a symptom of much deeper troubles. I do believe that to genuinely transform things, we as a society have to do some work on non-physical violence. Let us learn Gandhi in school, instead of glorify violence in videos and print?
It’s a shame that a great deal of of our youth spend a great deal time seeing video clips of people beating the crap out of each other. I don’t possess the solutions, but I think that mutually, we are able to come up with something. If all else fails, maybe all children should be pushed to undertake fighting techinques coaching. Individuals who want to can spar, and yes it will be according to professional supervision. And it will then involve expertise, and spirit, rather than unmitigated violence.
Illustrations of Girls Fighting and Situations that need to be Prevented:
