Beaten by a Girl
By Counselor
Boys learn to say "Girls are better than boys."


[I questioned two about the following. First Amy:]

"My friends said he was too tough, but I had to fight. I hit him hard in the
stomach and then got him in a headlock. When he gave, I put my hand in his
crotch and felt him so he'd remember he was beaten by a girl. Now he has a
crush on me."

[I wrote up what Amy told me and showed it to Jimmy who gave a more full
account.]

So that's what she told you. Well that is pure Amy, short and to the point, no
wasted words. And she is one tough girl. I'll tell you how it was with me.

Amy lived in our neighborhood. She was in my cousin Sue's class, one year
behind me. Amy was a real tomboy ready to challenge anyone to anything, but
she has girl friends, too. Sue was one of her best friends and so was another
girl in our neighborhood, Jan whose brother Harry was in my class. Amy was the
leader, though.

Tom, who also lived in our neighborhood, was the leader of the boys in our
class. He was a tough guy, too, and bragged more than he should.

It started in the springtime. Tom and Harry and I had put together some wooden
boxes that we used as our hideaway. We called it our "headquarters." One
Saturday afternoon we found the three girls playing in our headquarters. Tom
said, "Out! Out! This is our headquarters. It is for boys only."

Jan said, "We're just playing. We'll be done in a little while."

"Out! Out!" Tom continued. "This is for boys only. No girls allowed. Never,
ever."

"Why should it be only for boys?" My cousin, Sue, chimed in.

"Because boys are better than girls and besides we made it. It is ours."

"Girls are just as good as boys; so stop yelling," Amy said quietly.

Tom grabbed Sue and started hauling her out. "This way, girls. Out!"

Harry got hold of his sister, Jan, and began pulling on her. Amy jumped up and
gave Tom a hard push.

"Cut that out!" Tom yelled as he let of Sue and pulled on Amy. She did not
resist and we all ended up outside. Amy gave Tom another hard push. He pushed
her back. "Cut that out," he growled, "If you don't want to get hurt," raising
his fists.

"Come on Amy." It was Sue now pulling on Amy's arm. "Let's go. Let them have
their place." As Amy tried to raise her fists, Sue pulled harder on her arm.
"Come on Amy. He's too tough for you."

"He's older, too," added Jan.

"Come on. You'll get hurt," said Sue.

"Yeah, run on girl. I don't want to hurt you," Tom went on in his deep voice.

Amy pulled away from Sue. "Let me go and get back." She moved toward Tom. He
swung catching her on the shoulder. She punched a straight right into his
abdomen.

"Damn you. Now you are really going to get it." With that he caught her on the
side of the face. Amy countered with a left to his nose. Then they closed
trying to wrestle each other to the ground. Back and forth they tussled. My
heart was racing. It seemed impossible, but Amy was holding her own. As they
separated for a moment he hit her on the side and she again punched his
stomach and they clinched.

I could not tell who tripped whom, but down they went rolling and scuffling on
the ground Amy surprisingly still holding her own. Somehow she got her legs
around his middle and lying on her side straightened and squeezed as she held
his right arm. Nothing happened for several moments. It was obvious that Tom
could not get away and that his face was red with the strain. My heart was
still pounding and I seemed to have trouble getting my breath. Seeing Tom held
by this girl was almost too much for me.

With a tremendous effort Tom twisted. His left hand went toward her face
clawing at her eyes. Amy pulled back to protect her face giving Tom a chance
to get away.

Again they faced each other. Amy looked angry and Tom disheveled and worried.
Amy hit him twice in the face before he got in a punch that grazed off of her
shoulder. She hit him in the solar plexus. Tom was now pawing at her while she
was hitting hard. His nose began to bleed. Suddenly Amy moved in and, quickly
securing a headlock, wrestled him to the ground. She maintained her headlock
twisting his neck. "Ow," Tom said. It was more like a groan than a word. I was
now feeling a sinking in my stomach.

"Give up?"

Tom struggled harder. Amy cupped one hand over his nose and mouth and pressed
making it hard for him to breathe, especially with his nose bleeding. As soon
as he had a chance to get out the words, I heard, "I give."

"Say, "Girls are better than boys.'" When Tom said nothing, she twisted his
neck and said, "I'll just hold you here until you say it; so you might as well
go ahead." With that she gave his neck another twist. They lay there, Tom
jerking his arms and legs futilely and Amy putting on and releasing the
pressure. He was now totally beaten and in her power. The watching boys and
girls were quiet, thinking their own thoughts, reacting in their own ways.

After several minutes she moved her hand closer to his mouth as if to again
shut off his air. Holding her hand close to his lips she said very softly,
"Come on Tommy, say it. You can do it."

"Girls are better than boys."

"Don't forget that Tommy.Well, are you going to promise never to forget?"

"OK."

"OK what?"

"OK, I promise."

She rolled him on his back. I almost passed out at what I saw next. She put
her right hand between his legs and began to feel him up and rub him. I looked
at Tom's face. His eyes were wide and his mouth open. He looked strange and
terrified, but he made no move to stop her. Her hand clutching his pants and I
guess his organs inside, she said, "Now you will remember that you were beaten
by a girl.Right."

Tom's voice was now soft, "Yes."

I almost vomited. Harry looked stricken, too. Even Sue and Jan were pale. Amy
let go and got up. She brushed back her hair. And said, "Now we can finish our
meeting."

The two girls followed her into what had been our headquarters.

Harry and I went to Tom to try to help him up.

"Get away. I don't need any help." I could see that there were tears in his
eyes, but knew that he would not cry.

"She's really strong," I said not helpfully.

"Yeah, she could beat you up."

Maybe that made Tom feel better, but it made me feel sick all over again.

The next Monday, Tom and Harry and I waited for the bus along with the three
girls. I could not believe what I heard.

Tom said, "Hi, Amy."

"Hi, Tom."

"You know you can use our headquarters whenever you want. I'm sorry I was so
stingy."

"Thanks. That's nice of you."

That was it. Tom was nice to her and Amy was nice to him. It was as if nothing
had happened and Tom had a crush on her. A week later I saw them talking
together and when they parted, she patted his butt, just like she owned him.

I was not happy though. I told Tom he had no right to give the girls
permission to use our headquarters whenever they wanted. I told my cousin,
Sue, that too.

A couple of weeks later Harry and I were in our headquarters talking about Tom
who wouldn't come there any more. Mostly he just moped around making eyes at
Amy if he had a chance. Sue knocked on the entry and said, "Jan and I would
like to come in."

I could see the two of them. "No way. We were here first. We built it. It's
ours. Maybe we'll let you use it later."

"We won't bother you. Anyway Tom said we could use it whenever we wanted."

"Tom doesn't speak for us. You can't use it now. Period." They came in. "Go
out!" I yelled and began pushing Sue. She pushed me back hard. I pushed her
out and stood in the entryway to prevent her getting back in.

It was then that I saw Amy approaching. "We were here first," I said looking
at Amy.

By then she was close to me. She spoke, "We can use it whenever we want. Do
you think boys are better than girls?"

My mouth went dry and my stomach started churning, "No, no. I don't think
that, but we were here first."

"Then we'll share."

"Well, OK. We were about finished anyway, weren't we, Harry?"

"Yeah. We don't care."

We did not go back in but walked away. I didn't look at Harry. I was too
ashamed. I knew why we were leaving and I knew that he knew. We were afraid to
take on Amy. We said nothing about it, but that was not the end of it.

Sue lived next door to me with my aunt and uncle. As soon as she saw me late
that afternoon, she said, "Boy, did we kick you out. As soon as you saw Amy,
you backed down. Jimmy's scared of a girl and a girl who is younger than he
is. Yeah, yeah, yeah."

"Shut up. I'm not scared of any girl, but you better be scared of me."

"You're scared of Amy. Your afraid she'll beat you up."

The fact that what she said was true only made it worse. "Look I am not afraid
of Amy."

"She said that if you tried to push me around again, she would protect me."

"I'm not going to try to push you around."

"Just because you are afraid of Amy."

"I'm not afraid of Amy. I am ready to fight her anytime."

With that she gave me a push and then stood back to see what I would do. I did
not want to, but I had to. I pushed her back, not too hard. She pushed me
again and then we were wrestling. I was enough bigger that I thought I could
take her down, but she was surprisingly strong and agile. I tried several
times to break it off and stop, but she kept coming after me. "Sue, what's the
matter with you?" I tripped her up and then fell on top of her. That gave me a
chance to break away. Again she came at me. I threw caution and fear of Amy to
the wind and went after her. We fought standing up and then rolling on the
ground. I think I may have been better, but I couldn't put her away. She kept
squirming and twisting and even sometimes getting on top of me. We must have
fought for ten minutes before we collapsed in exhaustion.

"Jimmy can't even beat up a cousin and I'm younger than you."

"You didn't beat me up and I would have won if we kept going."

"Harry, we've got to stick together. Sue is trying to get me in a fight with
Amy. I don't know why, but that is ridiculous."

"I think she must be talking with Jan. Jan's baiting me, too, about fighting
with Amy."

My parents were out and Harry was over when the three girls came over. Again
my mouth went dry. Amy said, "I hear you have been pushing Sue around and that
you said you were ready to fight me any time. I'm ready."

"I did not try and push Sue around," I said feeling the blood rush to my face.
"She pushed me and I just fought back.I said that I would fight you, but that
doesn't mean I want to. If it's over the headquarters, you can have it."

"You said you were ready to fight me and I am ready to fight you. Let's go."

"Harry and I are partners. We fight together."

"Jan, you and Sue take care of your brother, while I see how tough this guy
is."

Suddenly five bodies were in a melee. Harry and I trying to take on Amy, while
Jan and Sue were trying to pull Harry off. The girls achieved their goal and I
was one-on-one with Amy. I got in a couple of good punches, one on her face
and one on her chest, but she got in more on my belly and face. We closed and
wrestled occasionally trying to punch, but not being able to get enough
distance to do any damage. She was better than I was and soon had me on my
back with her legs scissoring me while she twisted my left arm. My arm hurt
like hell and she was squeezing my guts out. My resistance oozed out of me.

"Give?"

"OK. I give.I give."

She released me, but, before I could get up, she plopped herself on my chest
and put her hands around my throat. "Say, 'Girls are better than boys.'"

When I said nothing, her hands closed on my throat. "Girls are better than
boys."

Promise that you will never again try to push Sue around.

"I promise."

I felt her hand probing my genitals through my pants, taking hold of them,
rubbing them. It was frightening and arousing at the same time. My stomach
knotted. I knew she was feeling my penis stiffen.

"This is so that you will always remember that girls are better than boys and
that a girl beat you up. Do you think you can remember that?"

"Yes."

Amy let me up. I looked over and saw that Jan and Sue had Harry on his back.
Sue had a tight headlock and Jan was scissoring his body and holding one arm.
Amy said, "Twist his arm, Jan, and, Sue, push on his throat to stop his
breathing until he gives up."

Soon I heard a muffled, "I give."

"Now make him say the magic words. He knows girls are better than boys, but
make him say it."

Almost immediately I heard Harry's male voice, "Girls are better than boys."

"OK. Now you girls know how to make sure he remembers. Let me see you do it."

"To my own brother?" It was Jan speaking.

"Sue, you do it."

I saw Sue reach down and probe his crotch. "Come on, Sue, grab him." Then I
saw Amy reach down and unzip Harry's fly and put Sue's hand inside. "Don't be
afraid. Feel everything and rub him. Make sure he will never forget.OK, ask
him if he will remember that girls are better than boys."

Jan said, "Harry, will you always remember that girls are better than boys?"

"Yes," was said with a slow exhale.

"OK, Sue, you can stop now. Take your hand out of his pants and let him up."

The next Monday Amy and I arrived at the bus stop first.

"Hi, Amy."

"Hi, Jimmy."

"Girls are better than boys."

"I know. Thanks."

Jan and Harry arrived and then Sue. Harry said, "Hi, Sue."

"Hi, Harry."

Jan said, "He likes you now, Sue, but he's shy."

Just then Tom arrived, "Oh, here comes the bus. Can I sit with you, Amy?"

And I was jealous.