Female gang epidemic in uk ?

Question

although most youth gangs in the uk are boys there is an ever increasing number of all girl gangs especially in london any have any guesses as to why its increasing are they tyring to be like their gang like boyfriends or do they what girls to have equal rep on the streets

one thing is for sure i would rather be beaten up by a normal gang then an all girl gang it will hurt a h**l of a lot more but atleast i would still have my pride.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/6516319.stm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/02/2007_26_wed.shtml

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/berkshire/4596819.stm

Answer 1

Well looks like the equal possibilty of girl gangs has always been there - now however they want to do it.

Answer 2

I agree with Tracey. Female gangs should be considered as dangerous as any other.

...h**l, look at the damage feminism has done.

Answer 3

LOL gives a new meaning to the term Gang Bang.

h**l its probably just a bunch of ugly chicks who couldn't get dates with the male gang members.

Answer 4

They must have heard that the female prisons are being closed down.

Answer 5

Feminism told us that if you give women freedom you will bring peace and harmony into the world... Wrong again feminists!! Many women now think its their right as a woman to hit their male partner (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/91293... and this extends to the attitude of many girl members of gangs.

People who deal with street violence will tell you that often the girl fights are worse than the boys, as the girls don't seem to know when to stop i.e. when the person they are fighting is obviously beaten the girl will often continue. Yet you have ivory-tower academics like Prof Ann Oakley saying things like: "Without men the world would be a better place: softer, kinder, more loving; calmer, quieter, more humane." Ann Oakley (1984) Taking It Like a Woman.

Utter BS and it would do feminists a lot of good to take a reality check every now and then.

Answer 6

Yes, female gangs can be violent, but there are far far fewer of them.

Treffy - that is one of the most ignorant comments I have seen on GWS and that is saying something. Honour? A gang of teenage boys going after a lone teenage boy with bats and knives, a boy that they had never had any dealings with, but just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time? How the h**l is that 'honourable'? Another gang who chase a boy who in desperation tries to climb down 13 floors and falls to his death? Another (male) gang who kick a girl to death and put her boyfriend in a coma because they don't like what they are wearing? It seems like you are trying to justify and condone gang violence (but only when it pertains to males) and I find this pretty despicable. I'm sure the many innocent victims (if they are still alive) of male gangs would agree with me.

Answer 7

There have always been girl gangs. They just don't get as much attention as other gangs because many people can't seem to accept that girls can be just as mean as the boys.

Answer 8

I grew up on the wrong side of the tracks, we had a unofficial girl gang that were tough as nails. Luckily they liked me and my best friend so we got a pass. But every other dude in the neighborhood were terrorized by them.