Fighting is just as natural for women.

The more rules you add to this sport and go away from old school vale tudo fights, the more weight classes are needed.

but we do, and we can see the result. It is clearly not an equal playing field, and without the introduction of synthetic hormones into the equation it never will be.

Culture can indeed influence biology but to ignore the hard facts is a bit silly.

Men are naturally, biologically, more prone to violence and are better suited for it, regardless of whatever influence culture may have.

Take a look at this if you got a few minutes. Very interesting.

A boy who has an athlete as their hero will want to be that.

Girls would too if they had enough female athletes to look up to.

But for a second, I’ll treat your statement as if it were factually true. Why aren’t you acknowledging the role that society plays in that equation? Girls aren’t encouraged to be involved with athletics. They’re lead to believe that men won’t want anything to do with a woman who is assertive or physically capable. Even the girls that do make it into athletics end up being funneled into a few sports.

There are some sports that are more “acceptable” for girls that others, and the ones that are productive for a career in MMA aren’t exactly at the top of the list. I mean Jesus, didn’t Nog say he wouldn’t roll with female students?

So we’re already dealing with a much smaller sample of athletes, AND THEN, we have to find a few who have the guts and determination to willingly step into a cage and come to blows with another person. Of course there are going to be fewer young women looking to get into MMA. However, it’s dishonest to say that it’s because women are just naturally averse to violence or fighting..

Psychological and cultural, I’ll give you that.

toughest kid i ever knew was short as hell & he would murdarize people of all shapes & sizes

But a large component is genetic when comparing males to females and even between certain races.

Its also a fact that women lose bone density(and even their ability to store calcium) as they age, as opposed to men who can actually gain bone density later in life.

That is to say nothing of the natural significant difference in height, limb length, hand/foot size and muscle mass.

While I agree that if women engage in more strenuous activities, their hormone levels may change. But not nearly enough to bridge the gap in testosterone levels, which can be 20 times higher in a man.

The idea that violent women could have been genetically eliminated is more a question of evolution than biology.

There isn’t any evidence within great ape behavior to suggest that early human females were more violent than modern human females.

Yes, this is certainly an interesting question to debate. I believe a good portion of it is chicken or the egg, but at a certain point, form follows function or so to speak.