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Brazil vs Mexico game temporarily stopped at 55’ due to homophobic chants.
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So what was the chant? And how did the crowd react?
Per NPR
When Brazil's goalie Julio Cesar prepared to blast a goal kick during last Tuesday's game against Mexico, fans raised their pitch and, just before the point of contact, took a big collective breath and screamed the Spanish word for male prostitute or whore.
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How is that discriminatory? It's tradition, happens every big game.
Traditions can be discriminatory
How it's calling someone "Son of a Whore" discriminatory? I agree it's insulting but where is the discrimination? Is it towards sons or towards whores?
I've heard from Mexican friends it's meant more like "bitch" and IMO probably directed only at FIFA at this point
Yes it's used like Americans use bitch but it means whore. I'm Portuguese we do the same all the time
I'm all for stopping games and punishing fans for slurs being used, but this seems like a really weird one to draw the line at.
I agree, if they are saying 'puta' then it's not homophobic at all, it's crude and unnecessary but hardly homophobic
This is my only point, also those players are football fans too and I bet they did it at some point in their life
Because it is very often used towards gay men. Not exclusively, but often. It's regional, too. Not all Spanish speaking countries use it that way, and some use it that way but with a more general connotation. You'll get a lot of people defending it based on tradition, or based on how THEY use the word (ignoring how others use it), or based on it having many meanings, or based on racism towards their culture. They'll complain that this is white people who don't speak Spanish telling them what is and isn't offensive in Mexico.
But ask a gay man in Mexico what it means to him when he hears "puto" and it won't be about his mother.