you fight like a girl

     In a world where fighting is seen as masculine how well of a fit are women in the UFC?  This was the question most people were asking when UFC owner Dana White announced the addition of a new women's bantamweight division.  Dana White eliminated all sense of doubt in the women fighters when he went as far naming two frontrunners in the division, Miesha Tate and Ronda Rousey as Coaches on the company's reality TV show "The Ultimate Fighter"

where the two women coached teams of both women and male fighters.
As far as the questions of masculinity in women's fighting the show seems to address this in the coach selection as Ronda Rousey has a very serious demeanor and is visually seen as less feminine on the show usually wearing dark colors, little to no make up and a scowl.
Rousey also acts in a much more aggressive way which is also seen as a masculine trait.

















On the contrary Miesha Tate was always seen in bright colors and dressing more feminine and has a bright positive personality.

The strongest statement the show had to make to gain acceptance of women fighting addresses the lack of entertainment because they would "fight like a girl" but the show needed to do little as the women fighters brought some of the best fights in show history with all the blood a gore associated with any entertaining UFC to date.