Boxing has long been a source of entertainment for generations in the past and continues to mesmerize people of all cultures today. In the modern world we find that not only are men enjoying the brawn of boxing, but women are also participating in the sport too. The population has been lead through marketing schemes to picture female boxers as a certain breed women that has that “tuff girl” roughness about her. However, in reality the image is quite different.
Typically speaking, the big screen marketing promotions often reflect female boxers as boyish, poor, uneducated trouble makers that are drawn to the sport as a last resort to keep from getting into any more trouble socially. This idea is clearly shown in the movie “Girl Fight” when the main character is portrayed as a poor Latino girl with little education who has a history of being aggressive and an outcast from society (Girl Fight). However, in the article “Get Busy Girl Friend” it states t
In the movie, it is accepted that the boxer learns how to fight because of her neighborhood surroundings. She is surrounded by apartment complexes that appear to be low income housing which are historically thought to breed crime. In the article, it is apparent that the growing interest in female self defense is a result of spiked crime statistics which assumingly are associated with violence against females. Both the movie and the article give credit to the crime rate or in other words physical surrounding as a reason for the up rise of training associated with female boxing.
hat most female boxers come into the ring with strong middle class credentials. Clearly, the “big screen” has projected the image in error. The “error” is also seen with respect to how a female boxer enters the fighting scene.
“Girl Fight” portrays a girl who begins training at an early age to pass time as more of a necessity to her survival. She begins training in a secl
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