I don’t think I’m gangsta enough to survive in Polk County, Florida. This suburb may sound vaguely familiar to some of you. This is where Victoria “Tori” Lindsey got beat down a few weeks ago. You might remember, six girls took turns hitting her while two guys stood at the door as lookouts. Oh and did I mention that they taped it and wanted to post this beat down on youtube?
Back in my day (be quiet, I know my day ended like yesterday), it would go down like this. A girl would talk shit about another girl or group of girl one of three ways: in a note, on the phone or aim. This of course always got back to the other girl, and the result would either be girl B talking about girl A, girl B confronting girl A and in very rare cases, girl B physically fighting girl A. What would not happen is a gang of girls attacking one other girl… and then taping it … and the trying to put that trash on the internet for everyone to watch.
The attack was described as “animalistic”. To be clear, the fight was like none I’ve ever seen. The girls took turns attacking Lindsey in an attempt to make it fair. As ride-or-die as they were to beat Lindsey they were very careful not to knock into the china cabinet. The beat Lindsey for 30 minutes – thirty minutes! That’s a long time to be doing anything. I didn’t know that teenagers even had attention spans that long.
I will say, they were committed to getting their message across. If I’ve learned anything from this it’s that you can’t call girls “sluts” on myspace or you just might get your ass beat. Worse than Ike beat Tina, ok that was wrong, but they did beat her down pretty bad.
So yes, the fight was bad, but what was really surprised me was that they weren’t even worried about being charged. They joked about missing cheerleading practice and not going to the beach. I mean, really? You knock a girl unconscious (twice) and continue to beat her, you don’t let her leave until you’re done beating her, you catch the whole thing on film and don’t expect anything to happen?
According to CNN, the ladies (should I even call them that) could be charged as adults and face life time sentences. Yeah, that means you’re missing cheerleading practice. And prom. And graduation. Oh and guess what, the rest of your life. And for what, because some chick called you a slut. And Lindsey is left with blurry vision and she can’t hear out of one of her ears.
I don’t really understand why anyone is so surprised that girls would resort to violence. It’s not new and it’s not uncommon. Don’t believe me? Do a search on youtube. Yeah, it’s a craze of sorts. Now the reasons why one would want to tape and post a fight, well aside from gaining some street cred, I don’t really know. I don’t know that men find fighting sexy. I don’t think you’ll be getting additional acceptances to college because you can stomp another chick into the ground. And it won’t get your ass into heaven.
So who do we blame for this? (Hey it is the American way) Is this their parents’ fault? Should these girls have been spanked when they were younger? Or maybe they didn’t get enough attention. Did they listen to too much rap music or watch too many violent movies? Maybe it was the video games they were playing? Or maybe they were just really bored.
Ya’ll spend too much time worrying about gangstas and thugs and we really need to be worrying about these cheerleaders. I know I am.
peace,
e.
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Throughout my high school days, guys used to take turns punching their boys in the shoulder on their birthdays; one per year. The violence was and remains senseless, but at least we kept it playful. I hope you are ready…
!!! Happy Birthday e. !!!
We can tape it and post on youtube, if you’d like…let those cheerleaders out there know what’s up.
I finally caught up with the information on this story. How cruel.
There is so much extra information surrounding this story.
Like: it was originally a fight over four dollars, then i heard Victoria’s parents threw her out, then it was a question of her being prettier than her friends…
and they were so hard hearted when they got arrested. Until they had to do hard time…
Ha!! You know you always have to beware of those who are quiet and apparently those who are cheerleaders. I think its just one of those situations where you have the click of popular girls who think they run things and take pride in making the lives of girls who are less popular miserable.
What is shocking to me is the fact that the world is angry because this happened to this poor little old white girl. News flash!!! This type of thing happens in schools and neighborhoods in the inner city all the time.
I’ve had friend who have met a mob of girls in their front yard and who have gotten beat up by that mob, right along with their mama. Yes ladies, I said she and her mother got beat down in their own front yard. Then there are the girls who have to transfer schools because they are being harrassed and jumped on school grounds and in their neighborhoods by groups of other girls.
I think this issue needs some serious attention because when these situations go unnoticed we have kids bringing guns to school and killing up everyone.
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