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Taboo - Gender Bender

Last night i was watching TV, and well i started with watching "You got served", i think its a great movie with the break dance and everything. Especially the beginning of the movie, starts off with a break dance battle. But i didn't get to finish it, i saw maybe not even 1/2 way through it. Then i was watching a special on PPV (PayPaperView) about the forest and ecosystem stuff, i think its so cool when they show stuff like that and animal. After watching that, i surfed my way to National Geography channel, they had back to back episodes of Taboo. The first one was called Gender Bender, they show different parts of the world where woman are trying to be men n men trying to be woman. They started it off with Body building woman in the US, and how they look so manly from taking in steroids and testosterone in their body. What that does is rips up their body to build it to whatever they're going for (perfection). What some of the things they said was, how they grow facial hair, manly voice, manly feature, they lose the boobs, so in order to compete, they have to get implants. Not only woman's have to be built, but also to look feminine at the same time. When i was watching them, they looked like Man's in drags, and when they would show them in their daily lives. Then they went to India, somewhere in deep south of India, where man were dressing up in woman's clothing, some go to the extend of chopping of their balls n penis. They were referred as Unisex, but i remember when i was in India, we called them Hijras (He-ji-ras) They're basically men dressed in woman's clothing with makeup and wigs, and they clap their hands harass people and beg. I actually learned a new thing, the reason why they were doing this is cuz, one of the king went to war, and he died. But his wish was to spend one more night with his wife, and Krishna bhagvan (god) turned him self into a woman (his wife) and spent the night with this king/god guy. Which is why these men turn themselves into woman for a day in a year and go to temple to get married and to find a man for the night (one night stand kind of deal with another man). These would be man who're married and have families at home, and they showed this guy holding a hijra, he's was like "ya this is just for 1 night, and its only for sex, nothing more" i was like do0d..he's a guy.

Taboo - Bloodsport

This started out with Cock (male chicken) fights in Louisiana, which is 1 of the 2 state that still allows cock fighting in the United States. They were showing how they train and stuff, and this hick do0d was like.."you gotta train them just like you train a boxer". Then they went on showing cock fighting (fight to the death), they went up to round 40, 1hr and some minutes later, the opposing cock lost and died, and this hick do0d won like 200 some bucks, and some other bets and they have these cock fights every week. The next bloogsport was about Bull fighting, for those who don't know the details, they go and pick a big bad bull, make him furious and pisses him off good. Then the bull fighter rides around on his horse and pokes spear/sword on the back/hump of the bull, bleeding him then finally taking the last sword and piercing the bulls heart, as it falls and dies. Personally its messed up, but both of these times, they showed the opposite sides. 1st the cock fighting, every day in the US millions of chickens die for food purposes, only few complain about that, but its big when it comes to cock fighting, the hick was saying they're natural born fighter, they fight over female chickens. Then one of the college professor added about the bull fighting, its an art its not a sport. This is an opportunity of a life time for the bull, either you get imported to the US, and go to the slaughter house, or you can go in a stadium and face your enemy and die in honor. The man was training for days, weeks, months, I'm sure the bull wasn't doing that nor did they train the bull to fight a man, so how is that even fair.

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Thursday, September 02, 2004

Taboo

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