This woman deserves a trophy or a cocktail — her choice.
Brazilian ESPN reporter Gabriela Moreira was filming a live interview segment with a Palmeiras fan recently when the fan tossed out a homophobic slur.
When asked what he felt the other team’s chances were, Philippe, 25, responded that he expected the Palmeiras to “beat the fags.”
That’s when Moreira pulled out this face, clearly having none of it:
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Then she replied: “Boy, I don’t know if you will win – but no to homophobia. How old are you? 25? Please…let’s try to…modernize this thought.”
In the studio, presenter John Carlos backed up Moreira, saying of the interviewee: “poor thing, the boy is misguided” and made a note that this “still happens a lot in Brazil and around the world.”
She later said on Twitter that she behaved “in a natural way, according to what I believe professionally. I reacted because I believe that the press can not be a vehicle of any kind of prejudice.”
Here’s the full clip:
https://youtu.be/Xdy__kDqzoQ
h/t Buzzfeed
Giancarlo85
This sort of attitude is still common in South America. There has been significant progress with attitudes, but in football homophobia still exists. I know Colombia and Brazil well… And am a fan of Atletico Nacional in Colombia… Homophobic chants still occur sometimes in games.
da90027
Most avid sports fans even here are not the sharpest knives in the drawer. Most of these guys have little else to get excited about in their lives. I have seen countless sporting events here in L.A. turn into riots by morons.
Charli Girl
Ha Ha what an insecure little twat!!
Leonard Woodrow
Well done that lady! These ignorant prats need putting in their place.
Curty
Dude mad because no man or woman what his stinking, dirt bag ass. He’s pissed because all he can afford is cheap hookers… lol
Low Country Boy
@Leonard Woodrow: Yes, Sir, and well done, Ma’am.
Michael Jerrell Evans
Mahelly Ferreira
Saint Law
Virgin talks tuff!
Billy Budd
He said “We’re gonna beat the faggots in this game”. I am brazilian and I must explain that the Sao Paulo team is famous for having gay athletes AND gay fans. I don’t know if this is true or just a myth, but it is what people say. “Sao Paulo is for the fags”.
dave lopes
Just a use of a word no longer acceptable in public.
Does not mean the man is homophobic.
SportGuy
That chick is awesome! If I were straight I would marry her, just for shutting down that fat piece of crap!
Zekester
@dave lopes: Nobody’s buying that bullshit anymore. It most certainly does mean he’s homophobic and the word should NEVER have been “acceptable” in public.
jason smeds
If this is an indication of the intelligence of the average Brazilian male….
Craig Maslin
What a lovely language… shame it is being used to say idiotic things..
o.codone
don’t you have this clip in english? why would you post some korean sh*it interview in america where nobody knows wtf is being said? all you damn haji’s can go back to south korea where you came from, right. haahhhaahaa.
hellogorgeous
Brava!
tusgold
Homosexuality is practiced much more openly and more often in Brazil. Men having sexual liasons are quite common. Now this comes from my reading I have never been to Brazil so I don’t know how valid my opinion is nor do I know how valid my sources are. If you have been there as it seems you have a much better perspetive than I have obviously and I am going to take closer note to my sources in the future. My understanding is Costa Rica is gay friendly.
tusgold
even cheaap hookers would charge HIM a bundle.
scotshot
@o.codone: E What a brilliant bigot! You can’t get the country or the ethnic slurs correct!
scotshot
@scotshot: The E is a typo,
dave lopes
@Zekester: No one said the word is acceptable in public. Usage of the word in that context does not prove homophobia.
dave lopes
@jason smeds: Oh please give me a break. What about the average american.
TemptyK
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Realitycheck
Glad to see even in Brazil things are changing, but then look at that guy, “IT” must have a below zero -IQ.
NJjoe
The mindset of South American hypeactive heteros. As will go for the same in the islands. Recently went to Puerto Rico and they HATE gringos as much as they do homosexuals if not more so. Considering most are Catholic goes without saying.
Captain Obvious
That’s pretty hilarious coming from a place like Brazil where they make anyone who doesn’t have white skin hate their skin tone, want to lighten their skin tone, and refer to anyone who is in a certain tax bracket as white no matter how dark their skin is.
MANY Brazilians have African DNA in them and they deny it because the status quo is “white is right”. How do you think they got those stocky bodies, the fat ass everyone loves so much, the thick lips, hues from pale white to pitch black, and filled out frames? Only people on the planet who have those features, especially the range of skin tones are descendants of Africans.
This is the least of their issues. Self-hatred of your own damned skin and heritage is psychologically destructive.
I always get a laugh at people who obsess over Brazil. Most of them want nothing to do with Americans, yet I’ve heard tons calling them so hot, and whatever else. They have the “private club” schtick down to a science.
Ditamo
@NJjoe: You do know that the Caribbeans is part of North America right?
Ditamo
@Captain Obvious: I’m not sure where you got that misconception? I’m pretty sure that there are people that don’t like the fact that they are part black in Brazil, but that happens anywhere in the world where black people and people with part black heritage have been discriminated against and seen as inferior, which is pretty much everywhere in the world, except inside Africa. At least Brazilian people accept the fact that mixed white and black people are also white, and are less likely to try and deny them a part of their heritage like people here in US and in Europe do.
But you say that they deny their black heritage yet Brazil is one of the countries that most embraces its black heritage, people in Brazil (black and white, and anything in between) have a much closer tie to Africa than most American countries, they practice Cadomble, capoeira, Carnaval, etc., plus have great relations with all of their Luso-african partners.
And finally if you don’t know much of Brazilian demographics, the two majority “ethnic” groups are White and than Mixed Race people, followed by Black, Asian, Amerindian, and other. So when the second majority of people in a country sees themselves as mixed, I’m not sure how they are denying their Black ancestry.
Giancarlo85
@NJjoe: This is kinda true, but it’s kinda false. It depends on the Catholic country. Puerto Rico certainly is a bit homophobic, but countries like Brazil, Colombia and Argentina have made significant progress when it comes to this.
As far as Captain’s statement on black people, that happens everywhere including in the United States. Brazil, however, is a multiracial country that embraces its various ethnic groups. The statements you are making is an incorrect one. This is starting to happen in Colombia too.
Giancarlo85
@o.codone: Fat nasty loser. Go get a life. You’ve been posting the same crap on here for days. Brazilian Portuguese isn’t Korean. You’ve never even seen a Latino in your life I bet!
blackberry finn
Good for her. Professional, yet firm.
Bauhaus
She was very professional and polite about her reprimand. She made no bones about it, though. She gave it to him twice. Once, as soon as he said, “were gonna beat those faggots” and again, at the end of the interview. Good job!
Macuje
@Captain Obvious: Are you Brazilian?
I am brazilian and I can confirm that the situation is the complete opposite of what you are saying.
People here don’t want to “lighten their skin tone”. We are not in India (I am not being hateful. That’s something that happens there).
People here actually do the opposite: we spend hours and hours on the beach to get a tan.
I can’t do that because I am too white and I have skin cancer cases in my family. But if I could my skin would be practically gold. 😀
Of course there is self-hatred, but that happens everywhere.
One last thing: you should stop creating “truths” about people that you don’t know based on scarce information (GAY PORN).
Giancarlo85
@Macuje: You’re correct. That is pretty much the same case as in Colombia… our beaches aren’t as well known as Brazil’s though.
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/colombia/things-to-do/colombia-s-best-beaches
Anyways, back to the topic…
Captain Obvious is just spouting off about a country he knows nothing about.
Captain Obvious
@Ditamo: @Macuje: @Giancarlo85:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Brazil
Nice try, Three Stooges. The race issues in Brazil are well known and very old… older than American slavery. Stop creating lies for your lame propaganda. Especially the white guy speaking from a seat of privilege about black issues in Brazil as if he knows.
I know black Brazilians, moron. You’re not a black Brazilian so how the hell are you going to chime in on what their experience is? You’re just as bad as some white Americans who do the same thing here any time black people talk about their experience in America. YOU are the one who doesn’t know the first thing about what’s going on for BLACK Brazilians so stop creating “truths” based on your rose colored glasses. You don’t even know any black people and don’t even try telling me about your black friend who delivers your mail.
The three of you are so moronic it almost hurts. Brazil is notorious for racism to the point where I an American knows about it and have known about it for years. Get over yourself.
Captain Obvious
More light reading on the race issues in Brazil since the Three Stooges felt the need to chime in with complete and utter lies to cover up a well known fact.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/17/race-in-brazil-offers-lesson-to-us_n_2895325.html
http://community.miamioh.edu/writingcontest2007/node/133
http://unchronicle.un.org/article/racial-discrimination-and-miscegenation-experience-brazil/
Feel free to post proof there being no race issues and total racial harmony in Brazil. You can’t so I look forward to seeing you refuse to post anything but more lies with nothing to back it up.
Macuje
@Captain Obvious:
Ok. I wasn’t going to reply to your comment because I often see you do the same things in every single post. You are an angry person, and I don’t like to get involved in these kinds of arguments.
But after you said that I speak “from a seat of privilege” I decided to speak up.
First of all: I am brazilian. So none of your huffingtonpost’s articles would tell me something that I hadn’t already known. I NEVER said that there is no racism in Brazil. I only said that racism here is the same as everywhere else. We have hateful people, but it was not the way you described it.
But, the reason why you got me mad is because, the same way you know NOTHING about Brazil, you know nothing about my life. Yes, I am white. But I have an idea about what black people go through because I go through that with my friends and especially with my boyfriend. I am latino, gay and in an interacial relationship (talk about privileges).
So, never tell me again that I don’t know about racism when I see daily how ugly and dispicable people can be. Of course it’s not the same for me as it is for him, but it is still not easy.
When people are cruel to him I feel worse than if they were doing that directly to me. Sometimes bad things happen. But things are definitely getting better.
What clearly doesn’t helps the situation to get better is people like you. People that shout their opinions at other people’s faces, without measuring their words.
I can see right through you. You are a frustrated and angry person. You come in sites like this and try to act all “politically correct” when you know that you don’t give a s#!% about what is being discussed. The only thing that is important to you is the feeling that you are right.
You don’t care about black people. You don’t care about brazilians. You simply DON’T CARE.
I really wasted my time with your nonsense, but that’s the last time I will notice you in here.
Have a good night, a good life, and try not to swallow your tongue while you sleep. I know that must be hard to do.
brparkrunner
My husband and I have lived and worked all over Brazil for almost twenty years. We have never experienced the kind of racism or homophobia in Brazil as we have in the United States. Together for 27 years, we always present as a couple and have been welcomed everywhere in Brazil. Before she was too old to travel, his mom even stayed with us for a couple of years and found that the beauty and kindness of our friends and neighbors made it hard for her to return to the States.
Most of the people in Brazil identify and embrace their multicultural heritage. To say otherwise and express expertise because of read online articles, clearly shows the need of actually traveling outside their fortress of ignorance. I would never associate with anyone that referred to their “Black Brazilian” or “White American” friends. A term I would use would be, “Ugly American”, but they would be no friend of mine.