For almost 150 years, the term 'bouncer' has been a byword for the tough door employees who remove unwanted from their buildings. But the first female exponent of the profession of Great Britain is one of a growing number that is of the opinion that the term should be shown the door – and she prefers the name 'ejector technician'.
Delia El-Hosayny, a 57-year-old from the Derby-Buitenwijk of Chaddesden, started her career in a small pub at the age of 18 and was a bodyguard that was entrusted with the safety of controversial figures such as darts player Phil Taylor and the cabaretier Freddie Starr.
But El -Hosayny, who said she had seen many changes in the security industry in the three decades before her retirement in 2018, never called herself a bouncer – a word that, according to her, shouts the image of 'a gorilla with huge arms'.
“It's an outdated word, Baily said. 'People still use it, but it does not describe the job well. It gives people the wrong impression.
“I never called myself a bouncer. I always said that I was an exclusion technician. It sounded better.
'It goes back to the days that it is the world of a man, like when I started for the first time.
'From the output means that if there is a fight, the door would take you out and bounce on the floor. It wasn't very nice. Those times have disappeared.
'If they get rid of that word, it is a better publicity for the job. People assume that Bouncers are criminals.
Delia El-Hosayny, 57, which it is believed to have been the first female bouncer of Great Britain, mentioned time on her career in 2018 after three decades in the profession
El-Hosayny rose through the ranks to become a bodyguard for stars like Freddie Starr, with whom she is being seen here. She did not like the term bouncer and preferred 'ejector technician'
'From the output means that if there is a fight, the door would take you out and bounce on the floor. It wasn't very nice. Those times have disappeared, “says El-Hosayny
“When people say bouncer, I imagine that someone is outside like a gorilla in a black suit with really big arms, ready to jump on you.”
That position is shared by Heather Baily, head of the government sponsored by the government, the agency responsible for regulating the private security profession of Great Britain.
Baily recently reached the headlines after suggesting the term belongs to a bygone era, one that existed before 11 percent of the 450-000-strong workforce of the SIA consisted of women.
“It goes back to the times before the regulation, before the SIA,” Baily told The Times last week and added that bouncer is a 'macho' term that “brings connotations of a large, muscular man.”
“It does not reflect the professionalism that today's licensed agents bring.”
Baily said she had placed the opinion among female staff of the SIA, who agreed that a shift of terminology was appropriate.
“I asked female licensees how they think about that term, and they don't like it,” she said.
A function with which they feel at ease is probably the least that staff working in the industry deserves.
In January a model that a colleague clubber, three police officers and two bouncers attacked a big fine and a community order on a night out in Hanley – and that is the thin end of the Wig. El-Hosayny said she was insulted, stabbed, bottled and even shot in the course of her 30-year career.
Heather Baily, head of the government sponsored by the government, also believes that the term 'bouncer' is outdated. “Female bouncers don't like the term,” she said
She also revealed that she was discriminated against because of her gender, in which some men refused to work with her when she became a security manager. Yet she is proud of the inheritance she has created.
“I think it's brilliant,” said El-Hosayny. 'There are now a lot of women in Derby who work the security industry.
'I squeezed, but I am only 5ft 3 in. If I can do it, then other women can do that too.
“Things have changed. When I started for the first time, there wasn't something like the SIA. If you could fight and take care of yourself, then you had a job.
'The term bouncer does not fit the future of the security industry. The generation that is growing up now call it door protection. '
