Mexican comedian Franco Escamilla, during a presentation in Los Angeles, in January 2018. Leon Bennett (Getty Images)
The fifth episode of the
Bored Toy
podcast , by Franco Escamilla, a comedian with more than 12 million subscribers on YouTube, is entitled
How to make your partner fall in love
and has blown up social networks for what a woman must do, according to him, to conquer to a man: have sex, cook something delicious and stay quiet.
The humorist begins his performance by responding to a request made by his followers: in episode three they talked about
What they want,
and some are still waiting for the episode about what they want.
The comedian says that this episode is not going to be made, “because it is very easy to know what a man wants.
If you are a woman and you are wondering what men want, go check yourself out, because one day you will forget to breathe, because men want very basic things.
Chris Rock [the comedian who was slapped during the previous Oscars] explained it perfectly when he said: 'man wants food, sex and silence'.
A reliable translation that I did in bars at that time was: "Let's have a little while, cook me something delicious and shut up."
He has also been criticized for the reductionism with which he describes men.
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Franco Escamilla
On video, a fragment of the last episode of the podcast 'Toy Bored', by Franco Escamilla. Photo: Getty |
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At no time, before or after, does he do anything to suggest that his comment is a joke, and the comedian repeats the same thing over and over again: "Man is very basic in his affective needs."
As if man were little more than an animal, Escamilla assures that the only thing a man wants “if he's horny, it's sex, if he's hungry, food, if he's angry at work, he wants silence.
It's everything a man wants."
Bored Toy is a podcast that talks about precisely that, about relationships, about what the data says about what women want and what they “really” want, and what, according to him, matters most to them when it comes to dating. choose a man, etc.
Each episode is watched by more than 500,000 people.
The episode that has been branded as "macho" on social networks this Monday, has comments of affection towards the artist, in which they thank him for the work he does.
“Franco is among my top people who are appreciated for having a voice and visibility in networks.
In two hours I learned more about love than in 30 years," said an Internet user.
His comment accumulates almost 400 "likes".
This excerpt from the video, published two months ago, has emerged on Twitter and criticism of the comedian has exploded.
“When I hear assholes, like Franco Escamilla, say such violent, macho, and misogynistic things disguised as humor, I not only feel very angry with him (them) and his speech, but I also feel a lot of compassion for us.
All your insecurities are not accidental”, wrote a girl on the social network.
A boy claimed that men are not pets: "We are complex, let's not be ridiculous with this man."
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