never see "cat fights" in mens sports...

I commented on BFlan's blog about how violence in women's sports is always seen an more outrageous, and is a shock to spectators; however, in men's sports people are not nearly as surprised. When I posted this video on Brian's post, I started thinking about why girls get so vicious during games. When you watch this video there's punching, kicking, slide tackling, and bringing a girl down by her ponytail. But some of these forms of aggression are part of soccer, for example slide tackling is okay when you know how to do it "within the rules". But sports like girls lacrosse are designed to be less contact than the boys. They wear a face guard which covers your eyes, and a mouth guard; unlike the boys who have shoulder pads and a helmet (besides the girls goalies they wear helmets too). The nature of boys lacrosse is much more agressive than girls, the checking requires more contact while the girls side has nit-picky rules on the right way to check. The girls however, get as enraged in a heated game, and possible more nasty to each other. Although society believes that girls sports should be treated differently than boys, the girls instead just come up with more vicious ways to bring their opponent down. If some of the aggressive moves built into boys games were also implemented in the girls games, would it change these nasty cat fights we see in girls athletics? Instead of coming up with these ways to hurt each other they would be shown how to do them the right and wrong way. Another direction this could be taken in is that women's sports get more attention and are sometimes seen as more entertaining when these "catfights" happen. So do people not want them to stop because it could cause greater publicity for the sports?