No Bull: Why Women Don’t Run With the Bulls
Thursday July 10, 2008
Women participate at the highest levels of competition at the Coney Island hot dog eating contest. If they act like fools there, why don’t they participate in Spain’s Running of the Bulls?
Perhaps women feel running from horny beasts is just too much like real life. Just don’t say they’re not as capable. My colleague Linda Lowen weighs in on this issue, and gives her Letterman-style top five reasons why Pamplona's bull fest never caught on with the female gender.
Perhaps if you could combine it with PETA’s Running of the Nudes you’d have a cultural event more suited for a broader audience . . . or at least a broad-minded audience.
Related: A Bull's Perspective
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Comments
By and large, women don’t buy into that thrill seeking death defying crap. They are too smart to risk life so frivolously.