“We are going to leave your face like Chucky"
Two teenage girls in Argentina viciously slashed in face for being 'too pretty'
Two teenage girls in Argentina have been viciously
slashed in the face – badly scarred – in separate attacks
by other teenage girls, reportedly for being too pretty.
Last Friday, in the northern city of Formosa,
15-year-old Julia Alvarez was attacked by her two neighbors
– sisters aged 16 and 18. The two girls hit and punched
Alvarez, pulled out knives and slashed her multiple
times along her face and her back.
“I promised my sister that her face would not stay
that way and I’m going to follow through.”
“We are going to leave your face like Chucky,
we’ll see who calls you pretty now,”
the girls said to Alvarez, according to Alvarez’s sister,
in reference to the horror movie character.
the girls insulted and beat her sister Yeni,
they said it was for being “too pretty” and “too preppy.”
Yeni posted more than a dozen photos of her sister
bandaged and stitched up on her Facebook page.
“She looks in the mirror and cries all of the time,”
Yeni said of her sister.
The 18-year-old accused of attacking Alvarez
was detained by police. At her home, police found
a switch blade, another knife and bloody clothes,
Her 16-year-old sister was not detained.
The mother of the two alleged attackers says
that a week before the incident, Julia had attacked
her younger daughter when she was a month pregnant,
causing her to lose the child.
Yeni says the mother of the two alleged attackers
has threatened to kill her sister and to burn down their home.
She says her family is afraid to leave the house.
The family is seeking medical help for Julia from
specialists in Buenos Aires.
“I promised my sister that her face would not stay
that way and I’m going to follow through.”
On the same night, a similar attack occurred more
than 500 miles south of Formosa at a nightclub in
Villa Constitución. A 16-year-old girl named Pilar
was slashed in the face with broken glass by
a 17-year-old girl named Karen.
The attack at the Empalme club left a 5-inch gash
from her right eye to her ear. The victim’s mother
says her daughter could have lost her eye and that Karen,
the alleged attacker, had menaced her daughter
two months earlier.
“She threatened her that she was going to disfigure
her for acting like she’s pretty and preppy at Empalme,”
the mom told Clarín newspaper.
Karen is in custody and, according to the newspaper,
posted on Facebook that she carried out the attack.
Uniform Made
The Women Look Partially Naked
Colombian cycling team defends racy uniform: 'we are not considering changing it'
The outcry was so strong against a Colombian women’s cycling team whose uniform made the women look partially naked
– that team members felt the need to stage a press conference on Thursday to defend its controversial attire.
Angie Tatiana Rojas, a IDRD-Bogotá Humana-San Mateo-Solgar team member and the kit’s designer,
said that photographs that spread far and wide on social media after the team unveiled the uniform at the Tour
of Tuscany in Italy last weekend were misleading.
The patch of fabric covering the rider’s crotch and midriff is gold, not nude as the photo made it appear, Rojas said.
"It's sad that it takes something like this for cycling, and women's cycling in particular, to get this much press," she said.
The images caused a storm of social media ridicule, with some describing the uniforms as “unintentionally vagina-like”
and the “worst ever.” Even the president of the International Cycling Union, Brian Cookson, tweeted that the provocative
uniforms are "unacceptable by any standard of decency." Rojas explained the reason for the patch of gold (or nude).
“It comes from our sponsors,” she said. “It’s the primary color used by Solgar, a company that makes vitamins,
and is also similar to the one used by San Mateo University, another one of our sponsors.”
At the press conference, Rojas was defiant, saying "We wear our uniform with pride,
and we are not considering changing it.”
She added, "We have to make the most of this moment, however it came to be. In the end, our reason for training,
for racing and for every pedal stroke is to make our families proud, and to represent our city and Colombia with pride."
The team next races on Sunday at the 2014
UCI road racing world championships start on Sunda in Ponferrada, Spain.
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Um dia pleno de harmonia e alegria a todos!
╬ Flores para uma semana maravilhosa!! ╬
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