Posted on 06/26/2017 4:05:22 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
They've been begged by star players to stop it, fined repeatedly, and threatened with dramatic sanctions that could hurt their national team’s chances in....
Mexican soccer fans have been loath to give up their favorite game-day chant, a homophobic slur that has been condemned by gay rights groups, government officials and international soccer authorities.
.....Each time the goalie for the United States team picked up the ball to punt it, the crowd began chanting, “Eehhh,” stretching out the sound like a long musical note on a crescendo. When the goalie finally kicked the ball, the crowd shouted, “puto!” in unison.
The word, which translates roughly to “male prostitute,” has long been used in Mexico as a slur against gay men.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
It shames sex-workers.
I don’t have a dog in this fight so I don’t care how it turns out. But its going to be really amusing seeing the LAT try to shame the rest of the world into giving up on bigotry. Earth to LAT — the rest of the world is filled with bigots. The US is tame by comparison.
A male prostitute is a gigolo...ala former Mass Senator and Sec of State John Kerry. If they changed the chant to....EeeehKerry would that be less offensive?
IBTF”FG,MP”FTOSNL
In Before The First “Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute” From The Old Saturday Night Live
https://www.hulu.com/watch/3514
“”How can it be a “slur” if there’s nothing wrong with being a homosexual prostitute? Isn’t that like “insulting” a tall person by calling him “tall”?””
BINGO - I always wondered the same thing when celebrities (years ago) denied being gay/lesbian as if there was SOMETHING WRONG with it and they didn’t want to be associated with the label. THEN years later, they all gathered together to protect and HONOR the “afflicted”....heck - even hold parades for them..
In the Philippines Puto is a steamed rice cake. Yum!
Character and Mexican society, never seen those words together before.
Homosexuals are in perpetual hissy fit mode.
much ado about nothing, Raiders still suck.
Pinches Holandeses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmQ1xw6dXp0
Is the sarcasm thick on that post or what? LOL.
I am not the least offended over the Mexican anti faggot chant
If this keeps up, the MSM will have to come up with a different translation for the word.
“Puto is Spanish for ‘a left-handed bricklayer’”.
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