women fighting?

[sara198392]

Just come back from a night out, and walking past two drunk young ladies really going at each other. Is this typical (not from uk originally)?

Drunken brawls are not uncommon in many towns. Sadly quite a few people cannot hold their beer.

Drunken brawls are not uncommon in many towns. Sadly quite a few people cannot hold their beer.

also sad that nobody really seemed to want to break it up

Sara, a bit late now obviously but I think maybe nobody wanted to break them up for fear of being attacked by the very people who are fighting. It happens, unfortunately.

sara198392

I hate to break this to you, but you were one of those people that didn't break it up.

It maybe worth reflecting on that.

I have broken up fights in all of the cases I have ended up getting hurt by one or both of those that I tried to help. My response now is to ring the police.

Yes it's fairly common among women, probably more common in the last 10 years than ever before. But it's also common among men.

Binge drinking has a lot to answer for.

Never, ever try to break up a fight. As a friend said to me (she was a solicitor specialising in criminal defence work), you never know if one of them is carrying a knife, and knives can go anywhere.

my friend tried to break up a fight and got her finger bitten off

Happens all over the world, not just the UK.

I have lived in Spain for 10 years. I have never seen this type of behaviour here. I ride on a big city metro alone at midnight without fear, I am an elderly woman. This kind of behviour was one reason for me to leave the uk.

I have lived in Spain for 10 years. I have never seen this type of behaviour here. I ride on a big city metro alone at midnight without fear, I am an elderly woman. This kind of behviour was one reason for me to leave the uk.

I've never seen a fight. Clearly I'm going to all the right places

A quick Google suggests that Spain has one of the lowest crime rates in Europe, and away from tourist places it's still fairly common to leave your house unlocked. Violent crime such as mugging is very low.

However, it appears they just have problems in other areas. Domestic violence is an increasing problem, with one woman per day killed by her partner. Women, especially blonde women, are advised not to travel by public transport alone at night.

"Yes it's fairly common among women"

Yeah I've seen it happen in pubs and the men just stand around laughing. In my experience if it's drunk men fighting everyone usually piles in, but women get left alone to sort it out.

No more typical than in other countries, I shouldn't think.
People get drunk. Sometimes a fight breaks out. It's not a Brit thing.

Nor a woman thing.

also sad that nobody really seemed to want to break it up

Well, did you?

Happens all over the world, not just the UK.

Nope. I've lived in Italy for 30 years, and never seen anything of the kind here. Or men fighting, come to that.

There just isn't the same binge drinking culture here. People will go out for a drink, but they normally eat first and drink less.

Yes fights are fairly unremarkable.

I imagine it is the same in most countries which have similar drinking cultures to ours.

I think there must be certain town centres n a Friday night where it happens, but I was brought up in a pretty rough town (and school) in England, then spent a decade or so frequenting pretty unsavoury nightclubs and I have never seen a fight between two women.

Mind you have only witnessed a handful of fights between men and most of them involved football and alcohol

Women acting like men and men acting like idiots-British men don't even have to be drunk to act like idiots when on a night out. When I've been abroad it's always the Brits that act the most embarrassing when on a night out-both men and women.
You can normally spot the British women-they have skirts going up there arses with the cellulite hanging out at the back. With the men getting Leary and louder with every pint they drink.
I know I'm going to get flamed but it just gives us Brits such a bad name when others act like this.

Really? You think your offensive and misogynistic generalisations are going to get you flamed?

I'm just giving my opinion. Freedom of speech and all that.

Yeah, and I wonder how that goes down with men and women of some countries other than ours, eh?

Just Google British men or British women and see what comes up. It's not very flattering.