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On the Map: Ella Es El Matador

Social Commentary post by Mandy Van Deven on September 2, 2009 - 3:04am; tagged animal rights, bullfighting, Latin America, machismo, matador, On the Map, sexism, Spain.
I’m vegan. I think cruelty to animals is unnecessary and unjust. I don’t eat animals. I don’t wear them. And I don’t kill them for sport. However, Ella Es el Matador isn’t a film about animal rights, and treating it as such does it an enormous injustice. I don’t believe in prioritizing a conversation about cruelty enacted on bulls over one about cruelty enacted on women while discussing a beautiful and melancholy film exploring the world of bullfighting through the eyes of female matadors—so I won't.
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