remarkable degree. Certainly their aggressiveness is a trait necessary to the survival of the whole species if also dangerous to the whole species. Women on the other hand, are ruthless, dirty fighters, unaffected by rules of sportsmanship. But, women’s violence is triggered by a more limited set of stimuli, the “Family Unit” is their turf. As long as my children, my mate, my home, my own flesh are safe, then all the rest can go up in smoke. This nurturing stuff is bursting with potential for violence. If we don’t use it much it may be because we’ve arranged for males to handle most of our defense for us. When they turn on us it’s like a missile exploding in its own silo. There are South American villages in which boxing is the primary sport as well as cheap substitute for small claims court and civil suits. The women box from infancy as do the men. Both sexes rely on this violent institution to settle their differences. But — and I approve of this segregation on psychological grounds — women box only with other women and men with men. As a boxing fan, it is with some chagrin that I must admit to having seen only one female bout. For undesignated reasons, there are only about a hundred female boxers in all weight classes in the U.S.A. They must have a hard time finding bouts, or even sparring partners. So that leaves me plenty of room for fantasy. My female champ would be radareyed, disruptive and flexible in her rhythms, and so slippery that she’d never get hit squarely. My concept of the ideal boxing style for a female is modeled on guileful, evasive, counter punching techniques. So it was with great embarrassment that I learned the general opinion of America’s lady fighters. My friend Dorothy M., an excellent cook and jolly drinker who happens to have been a fight manager for years, sneers at the ladies. “They cry and whine when they get hit. Oh, they’ll go out and move around nice, and pose. They look good until they catch one and then the blubbering starts. They fold up. It’s pathetic.” This came as a shock because in the past three years alone I’ve seen half a dozen cat fights on dance floors, a case of attempted mutual murder under the grandstands at the Sidewinders motorcycle track, a slim, satin-garbed lovely who cold-cocked a bar maid with a full bottle of Heineken Light, and a middle-aged heavyweight heedlessly snagging her suphose outside the White Eagle as she dragged her featherweight opponent across a rain black sidewalk for greater convenience in banging her head against the curb. While I’ll grant that they all lacked sadly in skill and experience I insist that there was no dearth of fighting spirit in any of these females. “Yeah,” says Dorothy M., “But I bet they were all fighting over men.” “Naturally,” says I, “What of it?” “Men will fight over a beer or a peanut or because a bell rings,” says Dorothy M. 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