Bullfighter’s Pants-Splitting Sideshow

Published by PETA.

The impossible happened—for a split second anyway. I momentarily laughed during a bullfight—or rather, during a matador’s wardrobe malfunction, which drew plenty of guffaws and catcalls from the audience. Watch as Alvaro Marin runs, bare-bottomed, from a bull—and then fashions an adult diaper out of a piece of cloth. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lTAnufNKGs

Of course, just like the tormented bull, the laughter was short-lived: Marin returned to the ring to slaughter the animal. Any shame that Alvaro Marin felt about his impromptu reveal was misdirected. As another Alvaro—the bullfighter-turned-vegetarian animal defender—notes, the continued killing of bulls in bullfights should bring shame and sorrow. Until these bloody slaughters are banned, they should also bring your protests

Written by Karin Bennett

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