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Catfight
Catfight (also girl fight) is a term for an altercation between two women, often characterized as involving scratching, slapping, hair-pulling, and shirt-shredding. It can also be used to describe women insulting each other verbally. The catfight has been a staple of American news media and popular culture since the 1940s, and use of the term is often considered derogatory or belittling. Some observers argue that in its purest form, the word refers to two women, one blonde and the other a brunette, fighting each other.〔Douglas, Susan J. (1994). Where the girls are: growing up female with the mass media. New York: Times Books. pp. 221. ISBN 0812925300〕 However, the term is not exclusively used to indicate a fight between women, and many formal definitions do not invoke gender.〔''(Farlex Free Online Dictionary )''〕
== Etymology ==
The term 'catfight' was recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary as the title and subject of an 1824 mock heroic poem by Ebenezer Mack. It is first recorded as being used to describe a fight between women in 1854. The word cat was originally a contemptuous term for either sex, but eventually came to refer to a woman considered loose or sexually promiscuous, or one regarded as spiteful, backbiting, and malicious.
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