An organised brawl at Manurewa High School has left the nation aghast.

It shouldn’t really though, I mean, this kind of thing happens in New Zealand high schools with alarming frequency…

The fact the aforementioned fight was planned via social media and recorded via cellular telecommunications device is nothing new either; it’s simply an example of kids embracing the technology we’re pushing upon them.

…The only reason I believe this particular rumble was so upsetting to New Zealand’s public eye was because instead of it comprising the usual rabble of loutish teenage boys, this bought involved loutish teenage girls.

This shocking transpiration inspired words from official-sounding people such as, “Disgusting”, “Horrible”, “Shameful”, “Unacceptable”, and so forth, leading me to wonder, where’s the equality in that?

I have witnessed a number of these brawls incited by school boys and the only kinds of words I hear in these cases are, “Misguided”, “Violent”, “Feral”, “Uncontrollable”, or the like; why should it be any different for girls?

Select woman’s groups are always on about ‘Female Equality’ in New Zealand, yet when females do start acting like males it seems that nobody wants to accept it – no boys are ever considered ‘horrible’ or ‘shameful’ for allowing their testosterone to manifest in the uncoordinated flailing of fists.

On the topic of injurious injustice, Michael Murray has gone to prison for ‘life’ on the charge of ridding the world of just one Headhunter; for no less than the next ten years Murray will therefore reside behind the comparative safety of steel bars.

Makes me wonder: how long do you reckon the rest of the Headhunters gang can hold a grudge?

Article by Tim Walker

Edited by Scrap P Gal

Photography by Gong Homme-Sade