Catfight

More often, the term 'catfight' is used as a slang term for an altercation, usually physical, between two women. It is stereotyped as involving slapping, scratching, hair-pulling, and sometimes biting as opposed to punching or kicking. It can also be used to describe two human females insulting one another verbally, or being unpleasant to one another. Many catfights in cartoons, movies, and beer commercials end with at least one of the participants missing several articles of clothing. Catfighting is also a popular subject amongst pornographic films depicting multiple women in sexually suggestive and combative situations. In the 1970s, prurient interest in catfighting lead to the popularity of several women in prison films.

Catfighting has also recently been experiencing a boom in the form of payable entertainment. There are many different forms that now exist. Catfighting media displays forms from the more recent extreme catfight aspect, in which punching and kicking are included with the stereotypical array of woman fight tactics, such as scratching and the pulling of hair. Such stereotypical displays of anger are frequently demonstrated on the daytime television talk show The Jerry Springer Show. In more extreme variations such as in pornography, facesitting is involved.

Links

For catfighting

• Women's Fight Club
• Catfights among women are becoming nastier

For fights between cats

• Cat play or cat fight? How to determine if your household cats are playing or fighting
• How to stop two cats from fighting by Google Answers

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