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Becca Williams's avatar

Bull fighting is tragic ... regardless of the extent to which they torture the animal – we lived in Costa Rica where they don't kill it – and based on that, we attended one and it was basically a drunken orgy of young men teasing and cajoling the animal to fight back – and always an audience thrill when one of the teasers was chased by the bull. It's certainly a lingering remnant of patriarchy where men have dominion over, well, everything. Of course, while we're pointing a sharp finger at Portugal, a country we live in at their pleasure, it's a good reminder that the U.S. government was putting migrant children in cages under Trump, a prime example of entrenched patriarchal values. Just sayin'

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Gayna's avatar

We live very near campo pequeno and find the mall to be a convenient place to pick up groceries and sometimes by KFC! When the bullfight date is close, a car drives through the neighborhood announcing it with an excited and loud voice. That always gives me hope they are not getting very many customers and maybe it’s dying.

I came from a state that has an annual rodeo in every major city. I found those too to be so cruel to animals basically either terrifying them and/or torturing them. But every year it was a huge event. I think sometimes people just want to not think of how cruel

the acts are for the selfish act of “entertainment.” I would lay odds that bullfighting will stop long before rodeos in the US.

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