Originally Posted by
Piers_K
I know Mignon as an Internet friend and we have discussed her sport for the past year or so. I?ve chatted with other fighting women also. My main interest has always been ?why do women fight?? In my experience as a man, - and therefore as an observer only, - most women do not fight, preferring instead to outwit their rival in some way.
Personally I developed an unhealthy interest in women fighting as a child when I saw my mother fight another woman, but to cut a long story short this piqued my interest to the extent that when I grew old enough I would deliberately seek out the kind of places where women might get into fights. This led me to seedy back streets, bars, street fights and low-class clubs, places where even the police were afraid to go. I saw a lot of sickening violence, - I then knew that not all women are the peaceful sort of souls I assumed most to be. For those of you who already know that I have used the material I gathered as inspiration for my fictional stories I must say that I avoided writing accounts of fights because the reality is that they were not attractive or sexy. There was no deliberate sex fighting of any kind, just violence, usually fists, though there were instances where breasts were attacked, punched or grabbed and one some occasions I witnessed women squaring up to fight and nudging and pushing each other with their breasts. But I suppose that if they are of the sort which stick out a long way in front of them this is hardly surprising.
I later married a really busty woman, simply because I like women with big breasts, their general outlook on the world is broad and generous and they are fun and often quite uninhibited and extrovert. This describes my Fran, but there was a problem. A bad childhood had instilled a good deal of violence into her and this led to her wanting to fight other women. Gradually, I nurtured her out of that, I let her fight me. I never hurt her and generally encouraged her to win. Then quite out of the blue she took up amateur grappling at our local gym and for a few years we all had great fun with the sport. She favoured Greco-Roman wrestling style, - you know, the circle within the square?! At home on our living room rug we fought naked, then she got the idea that she would like to invite some of her buds along. So the husbands and partners of these women were treated to occasional naked (or more often than not - topless only) wrestling bouts. These well endowed ladies boobs featured largely in these increasingly dirty matches. It was fun while it lasted and needless to say that I used this inspiration in my stories too.
However, THIS is my point; stories are only stories. My stories I have designed to be of entertainment to those who want them. My problem with this thread I have read is that it leads away from the art of story telling to real life accounts. Story telling takes literary skills (however modest), language skills and imagination. Other?s will no doubt disagree with me when I say that real life accounts are comparatively dull and boring. A real fight might be exciting for the combatants, but much less so for the casual observer. Since this thread got going there seems to have been less interest in this forum, perhaps writers (the sensitive souls that wee are:-)) are now concerned about being criticised for our ?unreal? portrayals. BUT remember, these ARE only stories!
These days of course, women are (rightly) breaking through the barrier of fighting for sport, with the increasing popularity of women?s MMA or Cage fighting. About time too I say. I advocate all women?s sports including boxing and wrestling. Any sports men can do women can do, but there are some women?s sports which men cannot do.
Piers Knight.
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