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06/20/2012 06:34:42 AM · #1 |
I like a good photo essay. This one is great.
Bolivia's Female Wrestlers
In the wrestling rings of Bolivia, skirts fly as cholitas fight back!
The fighting cholitas see themselves as symbols of strength: Their opponents include bigotry and sexism. "My goal," says one fighter, "is to lift up indigenous women, who have been treated with contempt." |
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06/20/2012 06:44:51 AM · #2 |
| oh.... I was hoping this was a challenge suggestion... |
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06/20/2012 06:45:43 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by smardaz:
oh.... I was hoping this was a challenge suggestion... |
Ha! Let's do it! |
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06/20/2012 06:46:20 AM · #4 |
enjoyable!
$20 - 30 per match? scary, the thought of risking injury for so little. glad they showed a training session for learning to avoid injury. |
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06/20/2012 10:09:13 AM · #5 |
now this shows the power of photography, to introduce people to new worlds, perhaps even immerse them.
Roland Barthes wrote convincingly that wrestling is allegory. In other words, wrestlers represent various things, good vs. evil of course, but other things as well. It is primal theater, opera without music. |
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