While in Mexico, some of the Bad Girls entered a "wet body contest" and became enraged after losing to a local woman. Most wanted to leave the club immediately, but one girl was still inside, dancing and having fun. This pissed them off even more, and they beat the shit out of her.

This show has a strange way of completely reeling me in emotionally. I mean, I love the trashiness and some of the drama, but the behaviors on display often truly disgust me. And I'm not talking about the drunkenness, or the sex, or the flashing, or the incorrect use of words. I'm talking about the cruelty inflicted by females on other females, whether those women are familiar roommates or strangers they encounter while out on the town.

Listen, I don't believe that all women have to get along - or even like - one another. But there needs to be some kind of rationale for so publicly (and violently) attacking another person. Not with these women: Their immaturity and cruelty CAME out in full force when they saw another female not only having a good time but rising above caring what others think. What's most disturbing to me is that not only did these abusers gloat about their actions the next day, some of them continue to do so, as evidenced by their Oxygen blogs.

After the incident, Kayla — who'd been the most outrageous cast member, having gotten naked in public a few times, once by accident and once on purpose — packed her bags and left before the other roommates or the producers had a chance to kick her out. At the end of the episode, the camera panned to this portrait of Kayla on the wall, as a sort of memorial, and then we noticed this:





WTF?

But more interestingly, Tanisha ("Pop off, son") from last season will be taking Kayla's place in the house.

What we saw on TV (and in the clip above) is vilified contestant Megan, wasted and wearing a string bikini with heels, saying something about Ozzy Osbourne that gets bleeped out, then Sharon pics up her drink, and dumps it on Megan. Jerry Springer-style quick editing shows security guards rush in and break it up, then the crowd cheers for Sharon, while all the other Charm School contestants rush the stage to gleefully congratulate Sharon.

What really happened is that Megan was indeed trashed, and after Sharon told her she should get spayed, Megan says something to the effect of, "As a celebrity manager, all you've managed to do is watch your husband's brain turn into a vegetable" or maybe she said "mush." But it was something along those lines. She definitely hit a nerve. But instead of a witty comeback, or rising above it, or having Megan thrown off stage, Sharon decided to dump a drink on her, and then repeatedly punched her, refusing to let go of her hair as security tried to pry them apart. (This was all bleeped and edited because of "legal reasons," which we've roughly translated into "Sharon doesn't want to appear to be the asshole that she is.") The irony is that the whole fight started because Sharon was mad that Megan didn't take the "lessons" of the show seriously, and she didn't learn anything about how to behave properly.

It's all a bunch of bullshit, and while I don't think that the VH1 reality universe is a particularly realistic or responsible one, I do think that it's disgusting for an audience to cheer on a grown woman as she wails on a drunken young woman in a bikini, who later was sent to the hospital for her injuries. It's disgusting to continue to pretend that Sharon is supposed to be a role model for these women, and that she's somehow better than they are. It's also disgusting that the other contestants rushed the stage during the fight, as though this was about someone getting their comeuppance, rather than it being about sour grapes because they're all pissed off that Megan got a deal to have a her own show on VH1.

Perhaps Rodeo hit the nail on the head — after she sat down on the couch to discuss her invention of waterproof jeans — when she said, "You know, Megan has never taken her show seriously. And I have. Every show I've ever been on with Rock of Love, I Love Money and Charm School, I take it very seriously."

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We've only recently begun keeping up with Alyssa Shelasky's Sex & Men blog on Glamour magazine's website, but we can say with confidence that in recent weeks Alyssa has been blogging more about herself, her sister, and her insecurities than sex and men.

Granted, maybe she's not getting any sex (or men!) and we feel for her because of it. After all, when we were in our late 20s, we broke 2 Hitachi Magic Wands within the space of 7 months during a particularly dry dating spell.

But back to the issue at hand: Alyssa's post today, Cheap Shots & Expensive Coffee (cute phrase!) goes into the issue of women being mean to women, specifically a nasty email that was accidentally sent to Alyssa ripping her "physically, professionally, emotionally, etc."

But did Alyssa's readers have any sympathy? Uh, no, particularly one "phoebemacintosh":

I guess when one is taught how to write at US Weekly, which is written at a second-grade reading level, one believes she can make up words, use them incorrectly, and ridicule the people who know what the words actually mean.

"JustSomeGuy" agrees:

In can only speak for myself, but what bothers me so much is not that Alyssa has so many misspellings, a total disregard for grammar and so many misused words on her blog, but that she does all this while talking constantly about wanting to be — and, at least on some level, already being — a professional writer. Professional writers, by definition, know that words matter. They care about language, and how to use it to communicate ideas and feelings. Whenever I see Alyssa talk about being a professional writer, but then within a post a two misuse a word like "dilapidated" or "majority," it makes me think of a medical student complaining that surgery is yucky and the sight of blood makes her woozy.

And "semperfi" isn't much of a fan, either, although she should probably take some of her own advice regarding proofreading:

She talks about a career as if she is entitled to one that makes her happy but not required to do what needs to be done to accomlish it, in her case proofreading would be a great start. For someone who went to Columbia, she isn't doing her Alma mater any favors.

As always, when it comes to girl fights, we're of two minds: We love watching them but still wonder: what if us women took all our bitchy energy and directed it towards those who actually matter?