Today it is Toñi Moreno who has been beaten for some out of place comments to a woman who was participating in her program. A few years ago, in 2017 on Risto Mejide’s Chester program, it was Mercedes Milá who bluntly called a fat scientist, with all the meaning of the word, and got into a mess. At that moment Jesús Vázquez presented Stop Bullying and he, who has also suffered harassment, made a reflection: “If every time adults on television say something to each other, we wouldn’t be able to turn on the TV. We should consider being an example so that children do not see that attitude. If, for example, you are watching TV with your son and you say, “Wow, you’re ugly, you’re fat!” in front of them, they will imitate it later. “These are attitudes that children see in their own homes.”
The talk show host Carmen Lomana, who prides herself on being elegant, considered that Infanta Sofía’s legs are “a little fat” and about her television partner, Pilar Vidal, she said that “so much fat is not good.” Paradoxically, for Lomana, these unfortunate comments of hers increase her fame and increase her media collaborations.
Tamara Falcó also suffered her hater moment for having gained weight due to a thyroid problem but she knew how to turn it around. She put her wit into it and the haters mutated in support.
Fat, short, dwarf, stupid, smart, black, deaf, lame or gay, in this country they have been the common theme for jokes, funny things and even hour-long shows. We have it so internalized that telling someone you interview “you ate a few plates of lentils” or “come on, she confesses; “You have put filters on the camera” to emphasize that she does not appear as fat on the screen as she is in real life, it is not appreciated as a serious fault and it is even insisted, with the belief, that, with that funny thing, that the interviewed Bella Vida even laughs at her, it is creating empathy and makes her feel comfortable. When it is just causing a nervous laugh in a young woman who has conflicts with her self-esteem motivated by her weight. And that, given that her half, her comfort zone, is her Tik Tok channel, she feels an uncontrollable desire to denounce the behavior that Toñi has just had towards her. And Hurricane Bella Vida is unleashed, crossing Tik Tok along the northern ledge and settling throughout the Twitter peninsula and even touching the hitherto impartial Instagram.
We have such an explosive cyclogenesis in the outer space of the conventional media, that first Carlos Herrera downplays it and later, a cyberbullying regular, Ana Rosa Quintana, finally connects with Toñi, who, very affected, apologizes again. The Andalusian woman has not been able to sleep, she is a trending topic, her mother and her sisters suffer and she even says that she receives threats. Another victim is created, Toñi.
Ana Rosa, as a veteran of suffering harassment and being a trending topic, appreciates that there is a lot of “victimhood and that nothing can be said anymore”, that is what she calls the outburst of the hater, hater world against Toñi and that allows herself to insinuate Maybe the young woman exaggerates. Honestly, with capes like that, it’s better to be ignored. Ana Rosa and her talk show writers who have the same opinion about her, leave it there. The haters mobilize but the rest of the teammates do not come out in force to defend them. Yes, some from Canal Sur, such as the board member, Isabel Cabrera, the presenter Iñaqui López, the president of Secuoya, Raúl Berdonés, or the Network of Proud Municipalities and little else.
In these moments Toñi feels the loneliness of his words and his colleagues on his back. A week ago she suffered for Jaime Peñafiel: “I sincerely, and with pain, hope that what happened to Peñafiel can be attributed to his age, and that the people around him take care of his appearances.” Age, old age, madness…lentils, chorizo, filters.
And the worst of all is that as a result of the incident someone, because there is always someone, rescues a video from the past about a matter of abuse and Ana Botella’s apples and pears are combined and in that open space of the networks that It is fueled by the previous tweet and not by reality and the apologies of the two victims, because at this point there is no longer an executioner and a victim but rather two women who are suffering for something that has gotten out of hand.
Little by little, that is like the game of words, when you say a phrase to a chain of people and when it reaches the end, the original phrase is nothing like it, only in this case the result is really atrocious and we should look at it. Neither despise the networks, nor worship them. Don’t abuse lentils with chorizo ??or chard. A balanced diet is the healthiest.
