Tradition in a sport that began more than 1,500 years ago forbids women from entering the ring as the space is sacred and any female presence is considered a pollutant. Via TRF_Stories
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 30 - A young wrestler dubbed"Little Miss Sumo" is fighting sexism in the ancient Japanese sport, hoping to inspire other women to step into the ring and elevate sumo to Olympic status.
"Even if you are faced with someone who is big and strong - it's not something to run away from, but engage with - like in the sumo way," said 22-year-old Kon when asked how other wannabe but wary women wrestlers should take up the sport. Be it intimate groping on packed trains, sexual violence in manga or the glorification of geisha, women are subjected to widespread sexual stereotyping.Last year the Japan Sumo Association, which does not let women compete professionally, had to apologise when female medics were asked to leave a sumo ring where they were treating a local official who had collapsed.
Most female wrestlers quit after elementary school, said Kon, who was born in the sumo-mad prefecture of Aomori.
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