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