Can you be a feminist and cry for Diego Maradona?

Sabrina Diaz Virzi

11/26/2020 1:11 PM

• Clarín.com

• Gender

Updated 11/26/2020 2:48 PM

Diego Maradona's death left no one indifferent (Carlos Bilardo is probably one of the few people who still did not find out about his departure).

Public and private cries, massive heartbreak, applause and flags.

The farewell of the mythical 10, of the person who was already a legend even before his death, once again brings to light the

, and also those of his admirers, many of whom cannot find the way around to achieve a "logical" explanation that brings together their ideals (feminists, for example) with the undeniable facts that were known about the life of 10.

The actress Thelma Fardín was one of those who fired him in networks, even knowing that his publication could generate judgmental comments.

In addition to her commemorative greeting, she wrote: “

.

People, feminism is liberation, not being accountable to you.

Diego's football amazed me my whole life.

Have they all figured out in this paradigm shift? "

"Let me cry,"

published the feminist illustrator

on social networks, with an image of a crying girl and a ball.

However, the post also had strong criticism, typical of haters, which led to her sharing another post where she criticizes this rising “feministometer” that evaluates and accuses how feminist, or not, a person is.

"Going out to mourn Diego publicly was a fear," he sums up.

"When I posted the drawing I felt the moment before the attack, when you already know that they are going to come. But I don't want to shut up. The 'I won't shut up anymore' is for all sides, not only outwards. And it didn't happen to me. my own. So, doesn't it occur to you to think that there is something that you are not seeing? ", says the illustrator to Clarín.

Image: courtesy Ro Ferrer.

"Let me cry"

“Maradona means my childhood and my adolescence, those games we watched at school, family gatherings, moments of great pain, the magic that he had.

I can't not contextualize;

At that time we did not have many references women, lesbians, transvestites, trans.

Except for Gabriela Sabatini and Nadia Comaneci, she had no other reference in the sport.

So, a constitutive part of my personality is through the men that I had as a reference, "says the artist to

.

“Maradona means my childhood and my adolescence, those games we watched at school, family gatherings, moments of great pain, the magic that he had.

I can't not contextualize it, "says Ro Ferrer. Photo: Juli Ortiz (@newtonxmetro) Anccom news

"

I recognize in them that machirula construction of having been guys who in different ways exercised gender violence. And I never denied that, and I have always made it visible. But what I felt on Wednesday, November 25 2020 was an immense pain, because I really had that feeling that one moment, a stage of my life had come to an end. And to feel

. I think being a feminist It is to build lovingly and collectively, also from differences. I do not think exactly the same as the rest of all the lesbian, transvestite, non-binary, intersex women that exist on the planet. So, let them feel that they could come to moralize or discipline. . "

"I cannot deny that Diego Maradona is part of my history," says Ro Ferrer.

Image: courtesy Ro Ferrer.

- It seems that for being a feminist you cannot cry to Diego Maradona, right?

- Clear.

As if we were saying that he never did anything, that he is perfect or that he is a being of light.

No.

It's like when they say that the artist cannot be separated from the work.

No, precisely: you don't have to separate it, you have to see that whole.

Maradona is a guy who arises from Villa Fiorito, who ends up being practically a human god on earth (because they put him in that place) and who was raised in a very specific way, because all of us were born into this culture: we too .

We call ourselves and call ourselves feminists because we are disarming that culture, because we understand that normality has to be diversity.

Furthermore, it

.

He was able to do everything he wanted and managed power from a popular place, he faced true power, political, economic ... Always in pursuit of the popular.

He did not forget where he came from and took the side of the people.

So I cannot deny that, but mainly

Yesterday I cried for him, Romina, because for me it meant and means a lot, without denying everything else.

"The same thing happens to me with Charly García. I recognize in them that machirula construction of having been types who in different ways exercised gender violence", says Ro Ferrer.

Photo: Juli Ortiz (@newtonxmetro) Anccom news

- How did you interpret the negative repercussions from your drawing?

- It was painful in every way.

Because I also realize that we are missing a lot, that there is a very linear construction of feminism.

And that is what you have to keep working on.

Understand that no one has the power to tell the other what to feel and how.

Already there we are crossing a limit that is very similar to what we are fighting against.

What I experienced as a result of this does not even resemble the worst moment of 2018 of the anti-rights.

And for me it is re worrying.

Because I'm talking about just one day.

Yesterday was so much and with so much anger, that I felt it a lot in my body.

I went out for a run and cried;

And I was not only crying for Diego's death, I was also crying the fact of feeling very far from what I have been defending for a long time.

Because I don't want this like that, it's not what I'm looking to build.

"Feeling that they came to moralize me regarding my feeling and my pain was very painful," says Ro Ferrer.

Image: courtesy Ro Ferrer.

- In relation to this, you published another post that says "Who gives the good feminist card?"

What happens to you with bullying among feminists, on the rise in recent times?

- The feministometer.

It happens a lot, because it costs a lot to disarm the patriarchal structure as well.

Because we call ourselves feminists and have this political position of beginning to disarm violence, it does not mean that we are people who do not reproduce at some point some type of all this violence.

Perhaps we are more attentive and can detect them, but perhaps they also escape us.

Because we are continually learning, and things are moving, it is dynamic.

"What worried me the most is that what I felt when I posted this pain towards Maradona automatically allowed them to deny the entire journey that I made up to here, even that same day," commented feminist communicator and illustrator Ro Ferrer.

Photo: Juli Ortiz (@newtonxmetro) Anccom news

- But the criticism came "from within".

- Friendly

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What worried me the most is that what I felt when I posted this pain towards Maradona automatically allowed them to deny the entire journey that I did up to here, even that same day.

Because, for example, that same morning I did a lot of drawings regarding November 25 (International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women).

And that same day my own colleagues were telling me what I couldn't feel and what I couldn't say.

When I posted the drawing I felt the moment before the attack, when you already know they are coming.

But I don't want to shut up.

The "I don't shut up anymore" is everywhere, not only outwards.

And it didn't happen to me alone.

So doesn't it occur to you that there is something you are not seeing?

Who gives you the feminist card?

No one.