Even though in amateur boxing the violence is semi-ritualised because of the protective gear and strict rules, it is a strange ritual indeed for women in an era when male violence against them remains a huge issue, and smacking a child in some countries is a crime. People throw up their hands in horror at the trend of pitched battles between schoolgirls, but fisticuffs between women at the Olympics is regarded as a cultural triumph.
Medical professionals periodically call for it to be banned because of the deaths (200 since 1980) and injuries it causes. In 1983 the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association called boxing “an obscenity [that] should not be sanctioned by any civilised society.”
Ao mesmo tempo que o politicamente correcto — a esquerda — considera que o boxe feminino é coisa muito boa, quer proibir as touradas. O que está em causa é a total inversão de valores e de tabus.