Girls Can Dish It and Take It. Got a Problem?

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | May 9, 2003 | Debra Pickett

[Dirk McQuickly]

I'm split on this. No one in their right mind would condone the level of violence that took place, but people need to get a grip and stop treating this like it's the crime of the century that an unsanctioned Powderpuff match was held with a keg in the park. As far as I can tell, this was not on school property. It should be a police matter. The school will make it's statements of outrage, then proceed to turn a blind eye to any number of house keg parties that will go down this summer...

[mewzilla]

Four kids ended up hospitalized. More were injured. This wasn't a prank. It was an assault, and it should be treated accordingly.

[Dirk McQuickly]

Like I said, it's a police matter. Those who took it to a criminal level need to be prosecuted, but I don't want to find out down the road we're expelling kids for throwing toilet paper in a tree during Homecoming week. I'm looking at the hypocrisy of the school itself, which doesn't seem to concern itself with other illegal activities of tis student body.

[zarf]

This event was NOW's dream. Lot's of wet panties over at girls=boys central.

[mewzilla]

Have you seen the tape. Not to mention that this was premeditated? Or do you think these sweete young things normally run around with paint, pig guts and ears, and animal feces? The cops need to treat this like the crime that it is, and if the parents were involved, they need to be charged to, especially if an adult bought the booze for these thugs.

[wgeorge2001]

"They've learned to play like the boys."


I am curious. I believe we have been hornswagled since the 60's and are now going into complete role reversals.
Is this a good thing and if so,why?

[Free State Four]

They've learned to play like the boys.

It's time to give Pat Ireland the kudos she deserves. Not only has she taught our girls the one-grope rule, but she has made them as crude and uncivilized as the men she abhors. Thank goodness she also has made them tough enough to kill their own babies without a twinge of regret.

[KellyAdmirer]

Seems to me that boys get suspended or prosecuted for stuff like that. No slaps on the wrist. This idea that boys never get punished for doing bad things is a complete NOW myth.

[Desdemona]

Or do you think these sweete young things normally run around with paint, pig guts and ears, and animal feces?

Sweet? Oh, I don't think so. Having been the victim of girls who bully, lie, etc., just to get their own way ans having watched enough school fights over 10 years ago, the idea that girls are sweet is a fairy tale. It's split maybe 50/50. The nastiest fights I've ever seen in school were between girls.

This was more a case of no adults were paying attention to what their kids were up to and hadn't taught them any manners. The school has no jurisdiction or responsibility, but it's name will be dragged around and they do have to respond. It's happened in other places over much less serious incidents.

It would be a good thing, IMO, to return lady-like behavior to the lexicon. ANd practice it regularly.

[GraniteStateConservative]

One of the "best small towns in America" is near me: Lebanon, NH. They have no high school cheerleading team because all the girls are playing sports.

[RonF]

Kids who were involved in drinking or violence (outside of the bounds of the football game that was played) should be busted and punished accordingly. Otherwise, it's time to get this off the front page.

[af_vet_rr]

Everybody is ignoring the parental aspect - what kind of parenting could lead to anybody thinking this kind of thing is okay, whether it's teenage girls or boys? Your right, I'm sure at least one parent or adult was involved, but overall, I really really wonder about parents that would raise such kids. If this was a football game and some kids not bruises and scrapes, that's one thing. This was something else.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

You are forgetting mob mentality. I am not excusing their behavior, at all. But, a group of large people does not normally react the way one individual would. That said, I think the girls should be prosecuted severely. Their behavior was criminal.

[asformeandformyhouse]

The author keeps referring to them as girls. That is exactly what these parents are raising, a bunch of girls. I would hope at this age they would be 'young ladies' and acting accordingly. Not that these young ladies shouldn't be involved in activities such as powder puff football, but the premeditated assault that occurred is nothing short of barbaric. I couldn't help but think of 'The Lord of the Flies'.

For the last 40 years, society has told children they are nothing but animals. Why are we surprised when they act like it?

[skeeter]

Something tells me this writer doesn't really want boys to begin treating girls like they treat each other.

If she does she needs to seek help.

[LibertarianInExile]

Your tag line kicks. Is it original?

[GraniteStateConservative]

Yes, FReeper Protagoras came up with it and I grabbed it as a tag. He then used it as his tag, but I was first.

: )

[Ignatz]

I have yet to see the video, can someone please post a link?
Thanks in advance!

[shiva]

LOL! When they run out of computer paper at the office watch them look for a MAN to go to the storage room and get another box for them. They can't handle it...too heavy they say.Ever seen a woman move her desk? You never will. Gotta look for a MAN to do that.A 12 year old BOY that never 'works out'has more strength than a grown-up woman.This
is just another way to usurp mans' masculinity. Book probably written by a lesbian that wishes she could trade her breasts for testicles.