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Making fashion glamour out of women boxing reminds me of editorials from early 2000s where women were very aggressive and gritty with each other in magazine editorial. I’m all for strong women.

But on a day when Congress is debating changing the health care bill so that any health care provider working in an emergency room can let a woman die, rather than give her the legal-right abortion granted her by the US Supreme Court, I think women should start boxing with men.

Most of us are pansies on the subject of women’s rights, although not boxer Christy Martin, recently profiled in the NYTimes Style section.

When Christy Martin’s husband and trainer Jim Martin allegedly attacked her in November 2010, after she told him she was leaving him for a woman, they fought over a pink 9-millimeter Glock pistol.

Christy Martin was pretty beat up by then. According to police reports cited by the prosecutor at Mr. Martin’s bail hearing, her husband stabbed her in the breast, back and leg, thrusting so violently that Ms. Martin’s leg, when she tried to kick him off, was cut almost to the bone. At one point, Ms. Martin was shot. After an hour, during which, prosecutors said at the hearing, Mr. Martin “mashed and bashed” his wife’s head into a dresser and nightstand as she lay on the bedroom floor, Ms. Martin managed to run outside, flag down a driver and get to a hospital. Mr. Martin is now in the Orange County Jail in Orlando, awaiting trial on charges of attempted murder. via NYTimes

In an earlier post on gun ownership, I wrote that Americans get a testosterone rush from shooting a gun. Christy Martin gets the same rush from boxing.

“The adrenaline rush from actually knocking somebody out is probably the best drug in the world,” she said. “And then the crowd going crazy and not believing they saw this woman, with one punch, knock another woman out.”

Injured boxer Christy Martin is set to resumer her career, and we wish her well. As for America’s love affair with guns and violence, we patriotic but more peace-oriented.

On the subject of women’s rights in America, a big part of my soul wishes that American women would stop fighting each other, and go after the guys in Congress who say we shoud die in the emergency ward when the US Supreme Court of America says we deserve better.

Beating down those guys would give me a real adrenalin rush! Anne