Catfight
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A catfight is, by literal definition, a physical clash between two cats.
More often, the term 'catfight' is used as a slang term for a physical altercation between two women, usually young adults or teenagers. 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.
Catfighting is usually used as a derisive term by males to poke fun at the way women stereotypically fight, or to define the subjects women fight over as unimportant or trivial. It also reflects the commonly-held view that cats are more like women, and men are more like dogs.
In American television
The subject of a catfight was also once the focus of an episode of the popular TV sitcom Seinfeld, episode number 156 (http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-112/epid-2396/), The Summer of George:
Elaine: Ok, why? Why do guys do this? What is so appealing to men about a cat fight?(Source: Seinfeldscripts.com (http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheSummerofGeorge.htm).)
Kramer: Yeye cat fight!
Jerry: Because men think if women are grabbing and clawing at each other there's a chance they might somehow kiss.
The second season of The Apprentice was described as a long series of catfights among the all-women's team of "Apex".
External links
- Cat play or cat fight? (http://www.pets.ca/pettips/tips-17.htm) How to determine if your household cats are playing or fighting
- How to stop two cats from fighting (http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=117802) by Google Answers
