Machismo is assuming that there are no homosexuals in men’s soccer. Machismo is affirming that women who play soccer do so because they are lesbians. More than saying that all the players are lesbians, since “it is a men’s sport.” And machismo is maintaining that nothing happens because Luis Rubiales gave Jenni Hermoso a little poke, that the player, as a footballer that she is, by force has to be gay.
“It will sound macho, but these soccer players are almost all lesbians, [therefore] it is obvious that they will not let themselves be kissed by a man!!! That’s why the version of this guy [Rubiales] is absurd”, says someone on the X platform who identifies himself as a Colombian guitarist. Not only does it sound, but the comment is sexist. It is not necessary for her to be a lesbian to not like the kiss.
All in all, it is curious how well seen lesbianism is in women’s football while the fact that there are homosexuals in the masculine is rejected. It is unthinkable that a player could be gay. Thanks to what happened with Rubiales, by rebound, observations like these are also surfacing, in contrast to those of machos who are still capable of bellowing that they did not come out of their mother’s womb, but from their father’s eggs.
@lesbicanarias made a compilation of the 2023 World Cup soccer players who had publicly declared themselves lesbian. He counted 85 among all teams. Now count how many active male and gay players you get. The competition doesn’t matter. They will hardly raise all the fingers of one hand. Of Spanish players, here goes the count: only one has come out of the closet, Alberto Lejárraga, goalkeeper of Marbella, from the Second B-Second Division RFEF.
The fear of being vilified for their sexuality in a packed stadium is reason enough not to stop pretending to be heterosexual. They sang “faggot” to Míchel. It is not necessary to go that far. “Guardiola, Guardiola, how thin you look. First there were drugs, today you can be seen through Chueca” is a chant at the Bernabéu to the City coach in the Champions League this year.
The soccer players have managed to normalize them socially on the pitch. They have also made
