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Catfight

Catfight (also girl fight) is a term for an altercation between two women, often characterized as involving scratching, shoving, slapping, choking, punching, kicking, wrestling, biting, spitting, hair-pulling, and clothing-shredding. It can also be used to describe women insulting each other verbally or engaged in an intense competition for men, power, or occupational success. 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 (e.g., Susan J. Douglas) argue that in its purest form, the word refers to two women, one blonde and the other a brunette (blonde versus brunette rivalry), fighting each other. However, the term is not exclusively used to indicate a fight between women, and many formal definitions do not invoke gender.

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