Pamplona and the Running of the Cows?!
Women are in fact allowed to run with the bulls at Pamplona, but, according to this article in El Mundo (in Spanish only, I'm afraid), a new campaign called 'Las vacas quieren correr' ('The cows want to run') asks for a separate bull run just for women and cows. The paper quotes the campaign: "Cows, just like bulls, have four legs and a natural insinct to run. A bull run for cows would put Pamplona in the vanguard of traditional festivals that have complete equality between men and women".
Until this idea gets a little more support, we'll have to settle with the male-dominated Pamplona Running of the Bulls.
Photo © Damian Corrigan


Comments
Hmmmmm … maybe they should arrange a special run for non-natives as well. A “Running of the Tranquilized Calves” or something. Would make sense, reading this morning that this year’s run was very bloody and that two Americans and one Norwegian required hospital treatment after being gored. Then again there was no fatality since 1995 … with the last person to die being an American.