[sumo] Sumo Wrestling: From Ritual Origins to Honorable…

[R. Brown]

Agreed.

Kodaiyama

On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 6:03 PM Patricia Yarrow <yarrowp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well I did finish reading it, but that wretched diaper trope was so
> unnecessary and trite
>
> On Mon, 20 Dec 2021 at 4:14 AM, Katrina Watts <sumorina at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> It is so annoying when ignorant people refer to the mawashi as a “diaper”
>> or “nappy”.  If it’s in conversation I counter by asking, “Was Mahatma
>> Ghandi wearing a diaper?”  “Was Jesus wearing a diaper?” and that usually
>> shuts them up!
>>
>> Katrina
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On 19 Dec 2021, at 11:02 pm, Patricia Yarrow <yarrowp at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 
>>
>> As soon as the writer described the mawashi as "diapers" (a cloth for
>> babies to poo into), I stopped reading.
>> Would this lazy writer also describe swimming trunks as "diapers"?
>> Idiotic.
>>
>> */ Patricia Yarrow*
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 19 Dec 2021 at 12:01, Jeffrey Anderson <jpaitv at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/sumo-wrestling-0016200
>>>
>>> Gaijingai
>>> Sent from my iPhone
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