# Women really do this to other women? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 20, 2003, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-really-do-this-to-other-women/202859 "2003-09-20T22:56:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TaxGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@TaxGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TaxGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2003, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-really-do-this-to-other-women/202859/21 "2003-09-22T15:46:32Z")
Can’t believe no one’s mentioned this: Besides the injury aspect to making an opponent naked in front of other people, tearing off one’s opponent’s clothes would also make her stop fighting as she tries to cover up her goodies (assuming she has some shame). ---
**Author:** ![Ryle\_Dup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Ryle\_Dup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryle_Dup)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2003, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-really-do-this-to-other-women/202859/22 "2003-09-22T16:33:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CrazyCatLady \* > Think about it: how sucky it would it be to have to stand there, utterly defenseless, in the middle of a circle of men who were pointing out that your dick seems to be on the small side, and you’ve got a pot belly, and you throw like a girl, and you drive like a little old lady, and you have this premature ejaculation problem, and any other deeply personal inadequacies they can come up with. Um, guys tend to do this to eachother _without_ the little circle/naked. Why just the lastday I greeted my friend by calling him a dwarfdicked cocksmoker, but then again, we know eachother pretty well, so everything is taken as a joke. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-really-do-this-to-other-women/202859/23 "2003-09-28T22:00:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by scm1001 \* > \*\*you have the same fantasy eh? ---- aaah forget I said that \*\* Trust me there was nothing “fantasy inspiring” about the barrage of profanity and attempts to verbally assault my heritage, manhood, and choice of occupation. ---
**Author:** ![bojon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@bojon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bojon)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-really-do-this-to-other-women/202859/24 "2003-09-28T22:16:43Z")
I was a bouncer at a hot bar. When two women got crosseyed with each other, I would shower them with water. They hated me, but no fights. Boyfriends do not like you touching their girlfriends ever. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-really-do-this-to-other-women/202859/25 "2003-09-28T23:41:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bojon \* > \*\*I was a bouncer at a hot bar. When two women got crosseyed with each other, I would shower them with water. They hated me, but no fights. Boyfriends do not like you touching their girlfriends ever. \*\* What’s a “hot” bar? Maybe I should go back to drinking. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-really-do-this-to-other-women/202859/26 "2003-09-28T23:44:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bojon \* > \*\*I was a bouncer at a hot bar. When two women got crosseyed with each other, I would shower them with water. They hated me, but no fights. Boyfriends do not like you touching their girlfriends ever. \*\* Tell you what - given their druthers, I bet boyfriends wouldn’t mind in the least if you touched their girlfriends, if only in the course of doing your job. But when the bouncer does anything to an obnoxious female, she will usually make the poor boyfriend’s life a living hell if he doesn’t “stick up” for her, even if she’s the onw causing trouble. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-really-do-this-to-other-women/202859/27 "2003-09-29T00:02:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by drachillix \* > \*\*Try handcuffing a teenage girl missing half her clothing who still wants to fight. \*\* Could I? ---
**Author:** ![Huerta88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@Huerta88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huerta88)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-really-do-this-to-other-women/202859/28 "2003-09-29T04:53:21Z")
On the subways in certain cities, you’ll ads for plastic surgeons rather gruesomely offering to repair (inter alia) “torn earlobes.” Fairly reliable hearsay reports of catfights in a school containing an equal admixture of mean doughty white farmgirls and mean young Mexican ladies seem to confirm that at least some of those torn earlobes come from yanking off the earrings of pugilistic opponents in hallway confrontations. Generalization, of course, but women (though slower to come to the point of physical fighting) do not – when pushed to fighting – know or care much about that Queensbury dude. ---
**Author:** ![pervert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@pervert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pervert)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-really-do-this-to-other-women/202859/29 "2003-09-29T05:33:00Z")
I witnessed a girl fight in high school once. It was progressing toward an assualt on each others clothing. But they fell into a patch of mud and the water cooled them off. For some reason, they did not want to continue even after we offerd to pay them 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-really-do-this-to-other-women/202859/30 "2003-09-29T06:01:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pervert \* > \*\*For some reason, they did not want to continue even after we offerd to pay them 😃 \*\* pervert! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DreadCthulhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-really-do-this-to-other-women/202859/31 "2003-09-29T07:53:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by drachillix \* > \*\*Try handcuffing a teenage girl missing half her clothing who still wants to fight. \*\* I do try, but the police keep showing up. ---
**Author:** ![zipper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/5f8ce5/32.png) [@zipper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zipper)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-really-do-this-to-other-women/202859/32 "2003-10-11T23:14:21Z")
A woman who was once in such a fight like told me, that stripping your opponent with a crowd of people to watch has much more lasting effect than just a black eye and a few burses that would heal in a week, especially if it is a crowd people that she knows and gets to see everything. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-really-do-this-to-other-women/202859/33 "2003-10-12T01:51:01Z")
So then, would it be a particularly intimidating technique for a very self-confident female to strip naked _before_ the fight…? You know, as if to imply “stripping me naked will do you no good, you’d better know how to fight for real or else it’s going to be _you_ who gets humiliated.” ---
**Author:** ![JessicaHoyt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e0b2c6/32.png) [@JessicaHoyt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JessicaHoyt)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-really-do-this-to-other-women/202859/34 "2017-09-29T01:48:01Z")
A whole bunch of boys saw me naked and they all laughed. Some girls were watching and they laughed as well. I had to run home naked when it was all over. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-really-do-this-to-other-women/202859/35 "2017-09-29T02:50:45Z")
What IS all this ‘Porky’s’ horseshit? Don’t you people know how to look at porn online?? Panting over seeing naked girl fights IRL? How pathetic. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-really-do-this-to-other-women/202859/36 "2017-09-29T04:01:36Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > What IS all this ‘Porky’s’ horseshit? Don’t you people know how to look at porn online?? Panting over seeing naked girl fights IRL? How pathetic. AFAICT, everyone is just having fun. What’s your problem? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-really-do-this-to-other-women/202859/37 "2017-09-29T04:05:49Z")
> [@JessicaHoyt](#): > > A whole bunch of boys saw me naked and they all laughed. Some girls were watching and they laughed as well. I had to run home naked when it was all over. **JessicaHoyt** , we prefer that old threads in General Questions be bumped only in order to add new factual information, not just personal experiences. For that reason, I’m closing this. Colibri General Questions Moderator [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-really-do-this-to-other-women/202859.md?page=1)