Mujer Torero

[osprey_archer]

The Death March (otherwise known as Finals Week) has begun.

My Russian final: is on Thursday. There is nothing to be done about it.

My Russian history Final: is a take home. I should be writing it, but alas, I am not.

Spanish: is over! We have no final, but instead a final project; I wrote a six page paper of which I am incredibly, deeply, narcissistically proud.

The paper's about, or was about originally, why bullfighting is evil and ought to be banned, whether or not some silly people want to call it an "art"; and then I started doing research, and about that art thing: just look at these photos.

I am not entirely sure which part of "men in tight glittery clothes stabbing large animals" is doing it for me, but wow.

It's still evil and ought to be banned - torturing and killing animals for fun and profit is wrong - but I have an uneasy sympathy, now, for why the Spanish government gives fine art prizes to the best matadors (or toreros, as they call them in Spain).

Also I want to write a story involving a torero. How, why, or in what fandom I am not sure, but it's hard to imagine any setting that wouldn't benefit from a man with tight, glittery clothing, a sword, and a bad attitude.

Comments

[girl-called-sun.livejournal.com]

Beyond anything else, getting in an enclosed space with an angry bull armed with little else than your glittery costume demands a certain respect.

Good luck with the finals.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

So true. It's probably the only modern sport where you stand a substantial chance of being gored, which certainly does give one pause.