I love searching the internet for old or dated articles relating to catfights, female wrestling, female combat, etc.
I found a piece tonight by a writer named Harold Reynolds. The piece is from a website called the "Journal Gazette". This piece is called the "Most notable thing about a catfight is the pulling of the hair" and was written in 2007.
Harold gives his view on catfights in this article and it's a fair piece.
Here is the first part of the article:
by Harold Reynolds
The major news networks appear to be fixated on a videotape showing a catfight.
Catfight, for those of you who have never witnessed one, is a physical, knock-down, drag-out confrontation between two women -- or teenage girls.
The videotape shows the lower half of a student wearing jeans, sneakers and white belt. She is pummeling, kicking and pulling the hair of another girl, who is on the ground.
The news channels have blotted out the face of the victim. The assailant and the student on the ground are screaming, etc.
The person taping the whole affair wields her camera unsteadily. Why the event is being recorded, I don’t know. In a world in which life is defined by the number of cell phones, Ipods, digital cameras, etc., one owns, it seems appropriate.
One of the female news commentators said she had never seen anything like it. To her, a catfight is a modern phenomenon, an event to be analyzed and discussed in somber tones.
Sure enough, the commentator is in the company of a league of reflective psychologists and psychiatrists; concerned school officials; and skeptical law enforcement officials.
The psychologists and psychiatrists lean on the assumption the catfight is indicative of a changing culture in which women are encouraged to be aggressive. And it does seem women on television and in the movies are increasing shown as kick-arse heroes -- or villains.
Read the rest:
http://www.jg-tc.com/articles/2007/01/20/opinion/columns/column001.txt
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