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Catfight
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, and sometimes biting as opposed to punching or kicking. 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.
In American television
The subject of a cat fight was also once the focus of an episode of the popular TV sitcom Seinfeld, episode number 156, 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.)
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.
External links
- 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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