pulling hair is instinctive for most of the women in the world in the fight
Normal ordinary women can not fight professionally so they fight with instincts.Hair,claws, slaps to face and so on.But women also use punches and kicks but not professionally especially elder ones
This thought corresponds to my epxerience, and I know what I say will not be so popular. I did some (not a lot) of judo and two Jiu jitsu classes, and through dojo friends got into boxing pretty seriously, training for 2.5years. I'm no professional fighter, but I know one still who is trying to get there, know a guy who trained mma for a couple years. there are a lot more opportunities now for women to be fully accepted in training gyms. You can develop good skills and be strictly an amateur- most are amateurs in boxing and MA.
Most in a dojo see catfights as not "naturally feminine", but as untrained fights. You are taught, it is drummed in, not to fight with anyone, to walk away, never to use whatever you learn to hurt except in case of extreme threat. Boxing, yeah hurt people. Hair pulling is laughed at in a dojo. I'm some embarrassed to tell friends I'm even interested and turned on by catfight. Please, please pull my hair, use both hands, and don;t be too surprised if my fist uppercuts between your occupied hands. Oh yeah tough girl, please do scratch me. That hurts, briefly. But a knee lift to the liver will drop you in a hot second, and you won't want to try to get up as long as 'I'm around. Why is hairpulling the real woman's way? It is the less effective. less powerful way. That is *not * less womanly, damnit., it's the way to finish her, fast.
But finally I want to say that when in two of the three pretty serious spontaneous fights I've been in I have pulled hair. It is visceral, maybe because it seems wild and less trained. That's my experience.
I want to learn to catfight. Would anyone be willing to help me? I'm 5-7, 143lbs and temporarily 46 years old,.38DD for real. That's not too old to fight, trust me on that. Come on ladies, catfight me.