This week, we watched a film, "Girl Fight." In this film, Diana is a female that wants to train to be a boxer. At first the trainer, Hector, wanted nothing to do with Diana. Diana gets a lot of crap from people for boxing, and eventually she proves everyone wrong and wins in the ring.
Why is it that women aren't accepted as fighters? The movie was out in the year 2000, and even 9 years later, there are not many female boxers. Personally, I don't think that there are not many females in the ring because they don't want to fight, but because they are not accepted for what they truly want to do. For example- yesterday, one of my customers asked me if I knew any female boxers. Of course, my answer was "No," but her parents were actually shaking their heads telling her she cannot be a boxer.
Towards the end of the movie, Diana is forced to box her boyfriend (Adrian) in the championship, and he refuses to fight her. She told him that he better fight her, and when they did, she won. He was angry about it and then eventually got over it. I think that it should not matter male or female in the ring. It is proven in this movie that it doesn't matter, and it should be accepted that boxing is not just for men.
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