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Makes sense, in America there are dog shows for their beloved dogs. Horse shows for horses. Why not have camel shows?
by tsol 5y ago
Makes sense, in America there are dog shows for their beloved dogs. Horse shows for horses. Why not have camel shows?
- GordonS 5y agoYep, doesn't seem particularly unusual to me; here in rural Scotland, farmers and their families show all kinds of animals, in what are essentially beauty contests, including sheep, goats, cows, horses and chickens.
- motohagiography 5y agoI'd go so far as to say characterizing camel sports and shows as beauty contests, a phrase that implies "women" to pretty much every english speaker, is probably the most farcically and unselfconciously racist thing I have read in an edited publication. Horse versions of events like these around the world are a huge part of rural culture and economies. The festivals (Golega, Portugal, Seville, Spain, Verden, Germany, Calgary, Canada, even Palm Beach, USA etc.) draw millions of dollars to local economies and provide livelihoods for generations of people. For all their concern, exotic'izing Bedouin culture and implying racist tropes about their relationships to camels and women, I wouldn't be surprised if the Times pulled the article, as it's hard not to read it as risably offensive.
- h2odragon 5y agoThey falsely advertise such shows here too: bring your fancy custom matched lingerie to a "Horse Dressage" event and they'll kick you both out.
- mbg721 5y agoThey didn't kick you out for the lingerie, they kicked you out for pronouncing it "dressage" instead of "dressahhhhjjjjj".
- tehchromic 5y agoI suppose as someone interested in cancel culture I would wonder respectfully why there's anything wrong with celebrating beauty as a feminine attribute, or with comparing a beautiful camel to a beautiful woman, (if in fact that's what was done)? True, males have been traditionally denied the status of "beauty" in more traditional cultural arenas, and yes, many unfair prejidices towards domesticated animals exist such that their comparison to a human is assumed to be derogatory. However why let a few bad apples spoil the bunch? I don't think there's anything wrong with celebrating beauty in all its forms and comparisons and I thoroughly enjoyed this article.
- hydrok9 5y agothe issue is that it implies that Bedouins have relations with their camels. It's a common slur towards desert nomads & arabs.
- mbg721 5y agocf. Wales and sheep,
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoSee also the age old proverb applied to anything is highly male: "the men are men the women are men and the sheep are scared"