I would agree with you my friend.  I've found that females are more aggressive in (ITF) sparring, I don't know if there is any reason or not but they do usually throw the first strike(they are so fast). 

They also seem to be able to get that one strike in an area that you didn't realize was uncovered.  We have a lot of families at my school and it seems like the mothers push their children harder then the fathers at least publicly. It's not bad just telling the kids to pratice the forms and such.

My favorite funny moment going against a female sparring partner was that she was a former professor of mine and I was just learning and it was hard for me to throw a strike because one she is femaie and two a person I repsect. She yelled at me "Stop being a man and hit me"  I've since got over my fear of sparring with her but that does make me laugh.

Whether a girl is aggressive kind of depends on the personality too. Plus another reason why they might do better in sparring is that most of them know they can't exactly outmuscle us guys. So they have a tendency to use they're heads more to make up for it.

Yup, girls can be very aggressive and it's good for them to be that way since there are a lot of whackos out there that might attack them on the street. At the same time, it is our responsibility as male martial artists to treat them like any other classmate by sparring at our best and not be afraid of hurting them because in self-defence, they still have to learn the same lessons we do if they make a fatal mistake.

I know, my friend likes to call this "White Knight" syndrome. As men, we're not exactly inclined to hit a girl especially when some them can be the most beautiful looking girls we've ever sparred with! lol

In self-defense, I hardly ever go against a female unless they are showing how effective the move is against bigger guys. But you do have vaild point. I think I've heard it being called something smilar to "White Knight" syndrome.  But I now don't worry about it.  My thought process is that gender doesn't matter, if you step into the ring, you know what you are doing or at least know what can happen. 

doughboy wrote: i get a point where i'm so scared of a girl, i kinda get turned on...

ROTFLMAO

I just got my butt handed to me by a little girl in class during sparring. It was funny, she barely came up to my stomach and she attacked like there was not tomorrow with little fist of furry, I couldn't get any offense and she chased me out of the ring. She said she was a "Jaguar". I was honestly the first time I've been chased around and out of ring,  I was laughing after it was over. But she did really good just staying close and putting me on the defensive side.