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The Woman Who Fought Bulls
- partycoder 9y agoThere is a lot of work put into bullfighting, and there's history about it, as well as culture. But outside Spain it is a highly controversial activity and I don't think it should be on Hacker News.
- onychomys 9y agoA link to the original, which Deadspin is just reprinting: https://www.outsideonline.com/1886411/la-matadora-revisa-su-maquillaje-bullfighter-checks-her-makeup https://www.outsideonline.com/1886411/la-matadora-revisa-su-...
- sctb 9y agoThanks, we've updated the link from https://thestacks.deadspin.com/the-woman-who-fought-bulls-1823371209 https://thestacks.deadspin.com/the-woman-who-fought-bulls-18....
- wolfgang42 9y agoLink still points to this URL?
- jessaustin 9y agoDoesn't seem to be updated yet...
- sctb 9y agoOops, thanks!
- michaelmrose 9y agoThe woman who tortured animals for sport.
- RobertRoberts 9y agoMakes me think about this bullfighter's experience: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wdz8vz/bullfighter-152-v15n10 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wdz8vz/bullfighter-152-v1...
- deft 9y agoMoral outrage against hurting bulls always makes me laugh, as most people have no issue eating animals. And no, animals are not killed humanely. You can't kill something that wants to be alive humanely. And even if you could, no one bothers to check where their food comes from, so it's impossible to verify.
- greymeister 9y ago"You can't kill something that wants to be alive humanely" That's your own personal opinion. I'm not going to argue with that, but there's objective differences between how cattle are slaughtered and how matadors make a spectacle of torturing and killing a bull. Whether either is morally justifiable is a different question.
- partycoder 9y agoBullfighting involves a series of puncture wounds plus a sword stab in the end. In contrast, during slaughter, bovines get stunned / killed with compressed air, unless it's religious slaughter. I am not going to say that farming meat is in the best interest of bovines, but common sense tells me the compressed air seems like a less painful way to die than being stabbed multiple times.
- motohagiography 9y agoFor a HN reader, it's odd to see this topic here, especially since I have some experience around it (not doing it.) Fighting bulls is more of an art than a sport, and having seen women fight bulls in the Portuguese corrida, my impression was it is as different as male and female ballet dancers. Same art, but they bring something specific to it. While people say it's purely a masculine sport, one of the most famous rejoneadors (Conchita Cintron) from the 1950s onward was a woman. They are rare, but not novel. I think the spanish style is less artful than the Portuguese, as shown in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMYzoKjiXbk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMYzoKjiXbk Diego Ventura is a living master of the art. A number of women (rejoneadoras) like Lea Vincens and Noelia Mota are big names in the art. There is more valor, if perhaps less art, in the work of the Forcados (https://youtu.be/pRzPPThS_M0?t=62 https://youtu.be/pRzPPThS_M0?t=62) who catch the bull after the rider is finished with it. It's an aesthetic appreciation of a very specific kind of beauty, so people who are against it are unlikely to be swayed. I understand the bullfight is also a political wedge issue in spain and portugal, where progressives ban it and traditionalists promote it. It is an art with a lot wrapped up in it. Odd hackernews topic, unless you folks in California are going to the local corridas. Hey, if you've had a huge exit and want to fight bulls, I can probably help. :)