Women on the door

Careful on this subject Dan some of the girls involved may read this!   Back in the day there were very few female doorstaff and you'd be forgiven for thinking some of them were male!   The reason there were so few was that old school doorstaff had more than their fair share of fights and generally men tend to want to do this more for a living more than women, of course there's no less violence these days but with more female doorstaff being present the lads who are fighting are quite often reluctant to hit a woman and this fact can be used to good advantage in many situations.  Sadly this doesn't always work and I remember removing someone by his feet years ago for punching a female door woman, would I have reacted the same way if it had been a male member of staff?  Actually, probably yes I would but that's just me some of the guys I worked with that night wanted to do a damn sight more than just drag him out the hard way I can tell you!

In my opinion this is probably the biggest drawback of having a female member of doorstaff as, some, men tend to instinctively protect women around them and I've seen a female member of staff get hit in a fight and have two doormen stop dealing with their attackers to help her, commendable in one way but in all honesty unless she's been bottled or something equally as bad which would also incapacitate a man then helping her was just dangerous as those two attackers could easily have kept going and made a bad situation much worse, we get hit in this line of work and when you're part of any front line team hesitation can be extremely dangerous, better a black eye than bottle in the neck.

There are a few things you just can't do if you don't have a female member of doorstaff, chiefly of these being searches as the law states same sex searches only so if we suspect drugs we'd have to detain the individual and wait for the police, in most cases this doesn't happen as we're far too busy to use the time of a doorman to detain someone we suspect of casual drug use so normally we just ask them to leave but this too can obviously cause problems!

Male doorstaff can't go into any female bathrooms without a female member of staff present either, unless something serious is happening of course but of you're only suspecting something then it's hard to hide a doorman in a female toilet, people generally realise something's up!

It's an incredibly hard environment for a female to survive in and even harder to earn the respect of both their peers and the public and I'm proud to say I know a few who have done just this, you'll always hear tales of a female doorwoman being useless or overaggressive and a lesbian, well there are useless doormen too and if you've just had your ass kicked and dragged out by a woman you should probably think of a better comeback than to call her a lesbian, you're only embarrassing yourself more and if she's straight and overaggressive she's only gonna kick your ass again and believe me some of the girls I know can do just that!