Thursday, May 04, 2006

Crip wrestling in Japan

Via Lady Bracknell, here's something I've never quite seen before. Warning: site has lots of crude and offensive language.

The comments at that link are as fascinating as the event itself. Everyone seems captivated and offers a strong opinion. So. Is it just another freak show designed to exploit disabled people or is it something more positive than that, and if so what?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I never heard of such type of sport for disabled.

I think I re-read this to learn well enough what it has to do with disable people.

Nice.
Karl

Disability Blogger said...

My first reaction to seeing the images was "OMG, WTH is this?!
Graphically, it looks a bit nightmarish. And you're right, the comments are interesting, to say the least. So far, I've flipped back to the page several times, so the shock value is definitely there. Typically I hate to cast a judgement on something until I've investigated a bit, so...I guess I'll go back to the page and try to figure out...what I think I saw.