CMUDE Organizers Respond About Anti-Gay Speech Charges



David Alatorre Lopez, CMUDE Organizer:

About what you have heard regarding homophobic speech it is very complex to explain, and sorry for my explicit language but it can better explain the situation.

The word "puto" has many meanings attached to it. One of them is the equivalent in English of "faggot", but it also has many other meanings, such as "fucking", "damned", "coward", "traitor", "man prostitute" and so on.

Since around 10 years ago, stadiums around México (and games abroad where México plays) have shouted that word everytime the goalkpeer from the opposing team kicks off as means of distracting him or intimidating him. The origin goes back to a 2003 game between Atlas and Guadalajara, where the goalkeeper took a long time to kick off and the people started shouting "puto" meaning "coward" (not wanting to put the ball back into play).

Now, this word is used indistinctively in the Mexican dialect by people from every sexual orientation referring to any type of sitation. For example, if you are outdoors and it starts raining you can say "puta lluvia", meaning "damned rain"; if someone doesn't want to go to a party, people say "no seas puto", meaning "don't be a coward". Unfortunately, it can also have some homophobic tints such as wearing certain clothes and saying "te ves puto" (you look gay).

What this means is that the use of the word depends on the context on which you are. In this case, some teams (I have avoided doing it to avoid controversy as an organizer) have started to do the famous chant of "eeeehhhh puto!" from the stadiums, for example, when judgs gave bad scored during talent night or as a chant of victory (hard to understand) but having said that, the people shouting it include homosexual people and by no means anyone has been harassed for their gender or sexual condition during this tournament nhor taht is the meaning when people use that shout but I can understand how it can seem scandalous for someone out of context and not from Latin America or Spain.

Still, we acknowledge we need way more discourse in Latin America regarding homophobia and LGBTQ rights and that is the reason why we chose the first motion of the tournament to be about that shout during the stadiums and we hope the participants have learned something out of it.

You can get contextualized more on the word here: http://traduccionybaladi.wordpress.com/2014/06/28/pto-the-reason-of-why-fifa-wanted-to-fine-and-penalize-the-mexican-soccer-federation-and-all-mexican-soccer-fans/

I hope things have been clarified. We have already taken very very heavy disciplinary sanctions during this tournament for other reasons and if there is any type of hate speech or harassment directed at someone because of their socieconomic condition, gender, skin color (for me the word race you use in the US is racist itself), sexual condition religion or disability will be sanctioned as well.


“P*TO”: A 'misunderstood' term and #FIFA's worst nightmare
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