In August, with the excuse of absence of the drive containing information about the rest of the year and we face a light mood to the holidays, newspapers become a sort of 'magazines' where the news today and passed a background, what prevails is the entertainment. Without going into deep a transformation that, after all, myself as a reader abide under the shelter of my umbrella, it seems very appropriate that this change of tone serve to disembark homophobia in the pages of a newspaper like The country, supposedly progressive and often committed to the conquest of rights by the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT). This was the
Last Sunday, when in the 'stereotypes' of the 'Review of Summer', the writer Luz Sánchez-Mellado took the voice of a 'Musa Gay' tired of being . I am aware that this is an article with satirical and ironic mind, and that the obsession with political correctness can make us hostages of little sense of humor and lack of self-criticism, but rather than revisit the text of Sanchez -Mellado, I keep feeling I stress the invasion with the first reading: it is a display of homophobia glib and, if it were not for that which offends only those who can, quite insulting.
The 'Musa Gay' with Mr. Sanchez-Mellado aims to outline the ironic portrait of a brilliant young heterosexual professional surrounded by gay men as 'cool', could have chosen to emphasize its alleged stereotyping of the many contradictions of a society that respects and face discrimination in the back, or by charging the blame on the implicit notion of "homosexual respectable standard 'associated with consumerism, obsession with aesthetics, and the discrepancy complacent and docile who swallowed to' fit 'in a discriminatory order never willing to be questioned. Three issues, certainly not exclusively attributable to the group of male homosexuality that article concerns.
However, Sanchez-Mellado prefer original primed with a very little collection of topics and generalizations that, if they could leave any doubt of his negative view of homosexuality, is responsible for strengthening with statements like "They say that you love, but you used as an add more. The bag can not carry. So they leave you, Chuck, "" They go out and you enter [the cabinet], they have balls, "" They celebrate their Pride. And you eat yours ", or "They do not eat or leave." Besides that they are expressions without any grace, actually, let's think for a second, what is the contribution? What the author intended them? What can serve as content, which? The only answer I can think of is bad faith, pure and simple homophobia, also presented as an afterthought bitingly 'buenrollista'. None of these terms contributes to dissect and healthily ironic as it seems no stereotype-section, but claim to legitimize discriminatory bias and impoverishing sadly rooted in the collective imagination, more than they may seem to those who believe to have invented the wheel with the ingenious set literary devil who wears a Zara.
