Mean girls

I’ve seen this video in a couple of places – not exactly catfighting, but not exactly Queensberry rules, either:

Other than the hairpulling at the end, I didn’t see anything in there that I don’t regularly see at my son’s high school soccer games. Soccer isn’t the wussy game some people think. And they play in the rain, unlike another “sport” I could name.

On the same hand, we already knew that beauty pageants can be nasty and rough, but:

Miss England Relinquishes Crown After Bar Fight

LONDON — The reigning Miss England has relinquished her crown after being accused of a fight in a bar.

Pageant organizers say Rachel Christie has also withdrawn from next month’s Miss World competition in South Africa.

They said in a statement that the 21-year-old heptathlete will now focus on clearing her name and training for the 2012 Olympics.
British newspapers reported that Christie got into a dustup with another beauty queen — Miss Manchester Sara Beverley Jones — in a nightclub earlier this week.

They were fighting over a guy. The new Miss England is Lance Corporal Katrina Hodge, a British Army soldier who was decorated for bravery in Iraq.

They call her “Combat Barbie.” Respectfully, I’d guess.