“Are we the baddies?” Ask the people who also forbid any media coverage of their actions.

What the fuck, bruises and not being able to sit for a few days. That’s way worse than what I envisioned from the beginning of the article.

That article was even weirder and creepier than I expected. By a lot.

Also some interesting bits from a different Austrian tradition:

The Krampuses are now encouraged to only symbolically brush festival-goers, and not actually whip them.

You dare to mock the sanctity of the spanking of the fraulein with the cow horn, Ed boys?!

Very similar to the tradition on the nearby Dutch island of Ameland. Sunneklaas

Must be something in the water.

Disturbingly, it was because the practice was considered unfair to the cows.

That’s why you go with Krampus, Krampus cares about consensual non-consent

THIS is what the liberal media wants for america

A centuries-old tradition in Germany’s Borkum where young men hit women on the buttocks with a cow horn using cow horn during the Klaasohm festival will be discontinued.

With a cow horn using a cow horn? Sounds like a difficult thing to do, holding a cow horn with another cow horn. I’d have assumed the coefficient of friction would be too low.

One man laughs it off as harmless fun, explaining that “when they [the young men] see a woman, they beat her up a bit with a cow’s horn,” adding that “it’s not really violent.”

The anonymous former islander points out that men would actually feel proud if a woman could not sit for five or six days after being hit.

Mm hmmm not violent for sure