Miami, homosexuality, condoms and Che
By Varela
Apropos the Ardin woman’s accusation against the owner of WikiLeaks, I concede that it is natural for leftists to disregard certain social standards. And I acknowledge that right-wingers apparently use condoms for sexual intercourse. Presumably, right-wingers go by the book.
It is also obvious that right-wingers perform coitus only to perpetuate the species, almost the way Vatican catechism admonishes. Not for morbid pleasure or carnal enjoyment. Only for procreation.
Seen from the right, any deviation from the correct path is performed by the harebrained, insane, rebellious and nonconformist left. According to the rightist manual, the commies are the ones who propagate epidemics.
As a reader of my blog wrote in the comments section: “You are a classic democrat – perverse, rotten, controversial, a libertine, a bad seed.” (I don’t know where he found that puritanical analysis, but, hey.)
In Miami, if you are going to defend something that’s hazy, you have to start by saying you’re neither a faggot nor a communist. I also think that women have to make clear that they’re not whores or former members of the Cuban Women’s Federation.
That label is denigrating. It denigrates because it is antidemocratic and goes against our First Amendment. But the local recalcitrant right pronounces itself clearly.
For example, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, an atrocious and consummate right-winger, has a lesbian daughter. For a federal legislator to have a son or daughter with that sexual leaning is no news, except in Miami.
That’s why The Herald published an article where they showed Ros’ daughter dressed like a woman and then like a man.
Why? To define. And to justify that right-wingers are human.
Ileana couldn’t think of anything else to say, except that she “love[d] her anyway.”
Well, how couldn’t you love your own child, no matter what she is?
That’s right-wing mentality for you. The local right-wingers sent a subliminal message without realizing it. A child who takes the wrong path is not loveable, but a Cuban Republican representative who loves her daughter and makes an act of public contrition, of social humility, is a heroine. (Could it be a staged political propaganda? Everything’s possible.)
In the wake of the article came the apologists, saying that the mother was not responsible for the daughter’s problem. (The apologists made the situation worse because they implied that a homosexual child is “a child with problems.” Another foot in the mouth.)
To them, their children’s problems are not thievery, drugs, fraud, mendacity or bad insticts. They’re their sexual preferences (whether they wear condoms or not.)
Last week, I heard an old Cuban man shouting in a cafeteria: “What can you expect from this WikiLeaks guy, if he doesn’t wear a condom?”
That’s the phoniest statement I’ve heard from a Cuban. You might as well ask how many Cubans wear a condom. Or if the old guy himself wore them when he fornicated in the Havana or Camagüey whorehouses.
But, since wearing them is now expected, whoever doesn’t is a leftist, like the WikiLeaks monster.
In the same manner, the right uses all the simplistic arguments it can come up with: arts, gastronomy, clothing, history, sports science. Anything outside the rules identifies a leftie.
And in this city, the greatest fear is to be mistaken through a trivial accident.
That’s why the other night, when I asked my sons to eat with me at a busy pizzeria in a Miami suburb and I saw them arrive, wearing Che Guevara T-shirts, I almost choked.
I told them the night was too cold and they should slip on coats right away. And I looked in every direction.
“Where did you get those T-shirts?” I whispered.
“At the corner mall,” they answered.
“And why Che?” I blurted, nervously.
“Why not?” they said, smiling.
That’s true. In Miami you can answer a question with that question: “Why not?”
After all, I confess: I’ve never used condoms. Like Assange, I’m suable.
