The suspect is said to have been in the shape of some sort of 4-legged creature, perhaps a horse or donkey. It is covered in crepe paper and may be leaking candy from a cavity wound. If sighted, please beat unconscious with a baseball bat until help arrives.
La diablada is practiced in Northern Chile, Perú and Bolivia. But there is a bit of anymosity between those 3 countries, so I should think everyone claims it as their own.
@shanASS: It's on San José and Venezuela (Montserrat) there are 3 big restaurants: Plaza Mayor (Spanish food) Campo Dei Fiori (Italian, go for the gnocchi, you can thank me later) and Diablada, which is parrilla and Argy food.
Mantecol? Mmmm... too dry for me, I only eat it at Christmas.
@CurtCole: Why would you throw your bouquet?! That symbolizes the passing of the torch and then it's no longer YOUR DAY!!!! And you DESERVE to be the eternal bride! You need to get that shit bronzed and never change out of your wedding gown. I'm talkin' Miss Havisham style.
I just got back from Peru on Sunday and hadn't heard about this!
Perhaps sacrificing woman was unusual in large numbers, but female virgins were frequent victims of human sacrifice in Incan Peru from what I was told while there (also, possibly considered an honor at the time).
For what it's worth, the Mayan king had to pull a reed through his penis three times, so while not exactly a sacrifice of life, it sounds damn unpleasant
I *really* don't like the whole "paying girls not to have sex" business. It seems like reverse prostitution: once again, attaching a monetary value to women's bodies.
Also, what college can I go to that only costs $365 a year?!
ETA: in an ironic twist, or hypocritical note, whatever, I'm drunk, but I am totally pro-prostitution. Make of that what you will.
@VirginiaDentata: I'm with you on this as well. Paying girls not to have sex is pretty demeaning. It seems like the state's just given up. "Well, reasoning with you hasn't worked. Let's just bribe you not to get knocked up." The stipulation that they have to go to college is also a pretty big f-you. Hey, not only are you too dim to figure out your own sexual business, you're too stupid to make any other big life decisions either. Therefore, we're going to make them for you.
Because college is the only route to success, and so many college grads are employable right now. *headdesk*
I can't wait for them to find out the hard way that there are smart girls in the world and get taken for a ride.
@VirginiaDentata: Well, they’re not paying the girls to not have sex, they’re paying the girls to make more responsible decisions – the program teaches them about birth control as well as abstinence.
The thing I don’t like about it is the fact that they only get the money if they graduate get into college. If you’re dealing with girls who are at risk for teen pregnancy, and who you believe are likely to drop out of high school and not go to college and therefore need a lot of encouragement, then how is saying, "We’ll pay you to make responsible decisions about your sexual health, but only if you also accomplish this GIANT UNRELATED GOAL that you apparently see as impossible" help? I imagine a lot of girls who aren’t sure about their ability to graduate or go to college are going to be like, "Well, I don’t think I can stay in school, so I guess I can’t stop myself from getting pregnant either." It just links sexual responsibility to academic success in a very weird way – like using birth control or feeling you have the right to say no are only for girls who are academically inclined, and if you’re not academically inclined, then you’re a whore and it’s no big loss if you get pregnant. Why not pay them for the three goals separately? One dollar a day for not getting pregnant, and a bonus if you graduate from high school, and another bonus if you enroll in college?
An Aussie TV show made a quite good joke about the dollar a day to prevent teen pregnancy in a piss take news broadcast 'although, there seems to be some teenage boys who have TWO dollars to give'
I was pretty shocked to read that one of the commenters on NPR's site basically said that black women in this country straighten our hair because we want to, not because we want to be white. He's completely missing the history of skin lightening and hair straightening in America. To say that black people "want to be white" is a little off point. More like, people of color know they'll be treated better, will be assumed to be more intelligent, and will achieve greater success in the corporate world if we assimilate our natural characteristics to a western European norm. So, no, we don't want to be white, but the pressure of maintaining a white-centric appearance can lead a lot of us to hate ourselves and our own beauty.
Stuff it, critics. 1) She's only a girl, whose fashion choices are not equivalent to political statements. 2) Peace is good. No, really, I know it's hard to believe, but peace? It's a good thing.
@Mafalda para Presidente: It's hard enough being that age and wondering if your peers will approve of your sartorial choices. I can't imagine having your every outfit published and discussed. Poor kid.
Regarding the article about "male pains" vs childbirth pains: All the "male pains" listed are ailments that can afflict women as well. So, howsabout we find some women who have both given birth and had the listed ailments and see what they think?
@gangey: Good point. Also, haven't they already established that men have worse pain tolerances than women? I thought I read that somewhere. If true, then do we need to correct for that, or say that if childbirth hurts worse than a kidney stone to a particular woman, but a kidney stone hurts a lot to a particular man, then it's worse for men, or something?
@gangey: I did like how for one of the things they listed, the pain was described as something along the lines of peeing razor blades-- because no woman has ever felt that, noooo.
@inabook: I'd just love for this Dr Abby type to hear about endometriosis pain. Stabbing pains up the colon, flowering blades inside the pelvis, unrelenting cramping aches. "Man" pain my ass!
@redqueenmeg: There's just no way to actually factor that into anything and measure it accurately. While it's true that women are said to have a higher threshold for pain, there are plenty of men out there whose tolerances for it are way above a lot of women's. One thing I'll say for the men though, with the kidney stones: They sure do have a lot more urethra to push that thing through, and that's gotta count for something.
@Nancy Lorenz: "flowering blades" = brilliance. this is how I am going to have to describe it to the next unsympathetic doctor who says an advil ought to do the trick.
@femputer: Hey, don't knock Advil. A nurse told me that the "recommended" dose was bs. Take 3 every six hours and unless it's unusually bad pain, you will be a really happy camper.
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Perhaps sacrificing woman was unusual in large numbers, but female virgins were frequent victims of human sacrifice in Incan Peru from what I was told while there (also, possibly considered an honor at the time).
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Q: How does Jesus bite his nails?
A: *alternates biting at each wrist*
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For what it's worth, the Mayan king had to pull a reed through his penis three times, so while not exactly a sacrifice of life, it sounds damn unpleasant
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Also, what college can I go to that only costs $365 a year?!
ETA: in an ironic twist, or hypocritical note, whatever, I'm drunk, but I am totally pro-prostitution. Make of that what you will.
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Because college is the only route to success, and so many college grads are employable right now. *headdesk*
I can't wait for them to find out the hard way that there are smart girls in the world and get taken for a ride.
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The thing I don’t like about it is the fact that they only get the money if they graduate get into college. If you’re dealing with girls who are at risk for teen pregnancy, and who you believe are likely to drop out of high school and not go to college and therefore need a lot of encouragement, then how is saying, "We’ll pay you to make responsible decisions about your sexual health, but only if you also accomplish this GIANT UNRELATED GOAL that you apparently see as impossible" help? I imagine a lot of girls who aren’t sure about their ability to graduate or go to college are going to be like, "Well, I don’t think I can stay in school, so I guess I can’t stop myself from getting pregnant either." It just links sexual responsibility to academic success in a very weird way – like using birth control or feeling you have the right to say no are only for girls who are academically inclined, and if you’re not academically inclined, then you’re a whore and it’s no big loss if you get pregnant. Why not pay them for the three goals separately? One dollar a day for not getting pregnant, and a bonus if you graduate from high school, and another bonus if you enroll in college?
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Stuff it, critics. 1) She's only a girl, whose fashion choices are not equivalent to political statements. 2) Peace is good. No, really, I know it's hard to believe, but peace? It's a good thing.
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The more you know, doo doo doo doo *stars*