On George Lopez’ new HBO comedy, It’s Not Me, It’s You, the Mexican-American comedian went off on Mitt Romney, joking that the GOP presidential candidate is actually Latino but won’t admit it. “If you want our vote, puto,” Lopez said, “come out of the closet!”
That angered GOProud director Jimmy LaSalvia, who bristled at the use of puto, which is often used as an equivalent for “faggot.” LaSalvia tells Laughspin, “It’s just another in a long line of examples of when liberals can use homophobic slurs and not face any consequences.” GOProud is asking for an apology from Lopez.
Get in line behind everyone who sat through his stand up, buddy.
Alex
You wanna know why liberals and gays can use gay slurs and get away with it? Because when they do everyone knows it’s a joke when the GOP does it is in a bill to take away someones rights.
FreddyMertz
ah, puto/puta means whore, slut….never heard it used as the “f” word…so once again made up controversy to try and inflame people…lol..I just read that and thought the people he’s trying to inflame actually aren’t the people(Repubs/conservatives) that actually support LGBT rights.
Baba Booey
Is Queerty a Log Cabin supporting web site? Oh. no. I might not come back here if that’s the case.
Laura
Puto means whore, bitch, slut, but is used as just another
general insult…not really the ‘f’ word. Maricon is the
Spanish equivalent of that.
Mark
LaSalvia is a fucking idiot. Puto/puta is whore, slut, rent boy etc. – sheesh –
tjr101
Yeah, I’m sure George Lopez will lose sleep over this. GOProud can keep waiting for their apology just like their master Mitt is waiting for his from the president. Republicans are such whiners.
Water-Based Painting
@FreddyMertz: @Laura: @Mark:
“Puto” DOES mean the “f” word.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_profanity#Puto
http://lema.rae.es/drae/?val=puto
William Turner
@FreddyMertz: @Laura: @Mark:
“Puto” DOES mean “f****t.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_profanity#Puto
http://lema.rae.es/drae/?val=puto
Nice try at pretending you know what you’re talking about, though.
Velocifero
That is news to me that the “p” word now means the “f” word. Anyway, it’s context and I Lopez was referring to the face that his family at one time moved from the US to Mexico so they could practice polygamy (this was Romney’s grandfather). Also, he is also probably making a slight at Romney’s flip flopping over the dream act. Either way the bloggers here at Queerty seem to never know their politics and the readers here instantly jump to conclusions based on low information. As far as GOProud, who the hell cares.
EH
I’m sorry but Puto/a means slut, whore, etc.. I’m from Mexico
and at least in there it’s used like that.
Charlie
Yeah I have never heard it used to mean that. Maricon is the one I hear when peopel mean “gay.” Also “come out of the closet” has been pretty much used by everyone to mean “open up about it.” So no, this isn’t a homophobic comment. And hey I like Lopez!
skeloric
Why is the moderation on this site so lousy?
‘Your comment is awaiting moderation. Our system might have erroneously auto-flagged your comment as spam; if so, we’ll fix it quickly. Or maybe you previously abused your commenting privileges, violated our Comments Policy, included a link to a known SPAM/harmful site, posted comments that detracted from the conversation, or have been repeatedly flagged by other users for being a jerk — in which case we won’t publish your comment.’
Seems there are no moderators ever around to actually get the comment moderated and added…
And why is it that stuff I posted 6 months ago is STILL awaiting moderation?
is the requirement for being a moderator on this site is that one must be total moron?
LittIe,Kiwi
LaSalvia is a cowardly racist hack. GOProud members are the most pathetic homosexuals in America.
Rodrigo
@William Turner: Ummm. No. Faggot, is blanket derogatory term against gays. Puto is not a blanket derogatory term for a gay male. Its the equivalent of genderizing the word slut. Spanish has no shortage of derogatory terms one could use for gays in general. If you use the word puto you’re talking more about the promiscuous nature of the male than anything else. But nice try.
t money
puto/a does mean slut/whore. but it also means fag. it is used as a gay slur. particularly the way g lo uses it. ie : “mas puto!” he’s trash tho.
arbiter
He’s derivative (more so than usual) and not funny. His show(s) sucked and we’re glad to be rid of him. Next!
Basch
I’ve always known puta to mean bitch, slut. I assume puto would be the same thing, but a boy? Not a fag?
Matthew Rettenmund
Puto does mean faggot, but he hasn’t been given a pass—there was an uproar via GLAAD when he used this often on his TV show.
Timmmeeeyyy
Is GOProud also demanding an apology from Jimmy LaSalvia, who tweeted the f word, and from GOPRoud board member Ann Coulyer, who has used the word numerous times?
FreddyMertz
@William Turner: No it doesn’t..I’m assuming you speak the language?…if not..nice try tho. 😉
AZguest
Whore and slut are the dictionary meanings of that word. Puto can also mean a**hole, mofo, idiot, fu**er etc. This is especially true when a man says it to another man. A man trying to insult another man wouldn’t call him a whore or a slut.
I have heard a version of the word “puto” used to mean faggot. However, the word is modified as “putin” or “putito.” They(my aunts, uncles, and parents) typically stick with “maricon” though.
Also, Lopez always uses the puto to people he dislikes, so I doubt he meant it as fag.
William Turner
@FreddyMertz:
Si, hablo el idioma. Y como persona familiarizada con el castellano, sé muy bien que en varios países de América Latina la palabra “puto” se usa como término sumamente peyorativo para referirse a los homosexuales (es el caso especialmente de México y Argentina). Es sólo una persona que conoce de lejos el español, y que ignora sus matices y sus variaciones regionales, quien vería en la palabra “puto” el simple masculino de “puta” y concluiría que el vocablo debe obligatoriamente significar “prostituto” y nada más.
Y por cierto, ¿tú quién eres para declarar que la palabra no es sinónimo de “marica,” así como por decreto imperial? Yo por lo menos proporcioné pruebas, incluyendo la definición de la Real Academia, que muy clara y contundentemente muestra que “puto” es una forma de referirse a un hombre homosexual.
A menos que ahora el gran Sr. FreddyMertz sepa más sobre el español que la misma Academia.
skeloric
@William Turner: Well, FreddyMertz, I think that he has more credentials than you on the subject of the Spanish language.
I recognize the start as being, ‘Yes, I speak the language’ (Si, hablo el idioma.)
Then I recognize another bit i can puzzle out… [peyorativo para referirse a los homosexuales (es el caso especialmente de México y Argentina)] which is saying that “it is a pejorative term for a homosexual (especially in Mexico and Argentina)”
i think that ended with saying that you should go back to school and get an education that includes learning Spanish.
Or maybe that you had a very poor education because it did not include learning Spanish. I can’t quite tell.
(Back in third grade I read John Ciardi’s translation of Dante’s Inferno that contained both the English translation and the Latin original — even going so far as to get a Latin/English dictionary to ‘test’ the translation. So I can sort of sometimes understand a bit of the written Spanish — and sometimes a little is worse than none at all.
As to why some is worse than none, it is because common root words pop up in quite a few European languages, leading a person to erroneously believe they actually fully understand based merely upon the words that appear familiar.)
skeloric
I decided to reapply my prior comment (which would be #9 if you can’t yet see it as i suspect you can’t) that has yet to be ‘moderated’:
I think Lopez just wrote/presented his joke badly.
Mitt is a w.ho.r.e., at least in the political sense.
But certainly not in the classic way.
He went before the NAACP to show off his ‘charms’ to the racists in his party because they are the ones he needs votes from, as the NAACP certainly wasn’t going to offer any.
Trying to confuse the whole issue with adding into the joke that Mitt is secretly Latino…
Well, suddenly we have ‘Latino’ being equated to ‘homosexual’ within the joke’s context.
Well it is ‘cute’ in a way, but it really does lead to a degree of confusion.
Stuffing so many implications into the joke rather breaks down the humor as one stops reacting at the aesthetic level and starts looking at it from the rational level.
Overall… MEH.
Its some comedian who said a joke that nobody will remember in 3 months time.
I’m more concerned with Jimmy Walker’s recent statements.
skeloric
LOL, I tried to to reinsert my ‘lost’ comment and I still haven’t found a way to defeat the idiotic autolock feature.
So I’ll keep trying… attempt #3:
I think Lopez just wrote/presented his joke badly.
Mitt is as he was was described, at least in the political sense.
But certainly not in the classic way.
He went before the NAACP to show off his ‘charms’ to those in his party who’d be the most offended by his being booed at the NAACP, because they are the ones he needs votes from, as the NAACP certainly wasn’t going to offer any.
Trying to confuse the whole issue with adding into the joke that Mitt is secretly Latino…
Well, suddenly we have ‘Latino’ being equated to ‘homosexual’ within the joke’s context.
Well it is ‘cute’ in a way, but it really does lead to a degree of confusion.
Stuffing so many implications into the joke rather breaks down the humor as one stops reacting at the aesthetic level and starts looking at it from the rational level.
Overall… MEH.
Its some comedian who said a joke that nobody will remember in 3 months time.
I’m more concerned with Jimmy Walker’s recent statements.
skeloric
Why did it take three tries to find and replace words automatically censored?
There really needs to a more clear listing of how Queerty’s auto-moderate feature vindictively opposesand attempts do undermine First Amendment rights, so that it is very clear.
FreddyMertz
@skeloric: I speak the language..and btw I speak 4 fluently. English, Spanish, Japanese and Arabic. I’ve never heard it being used to mean “faggot”. I also don’t turn to Wikipedia(it can be changed)for the definition of foreign language words. But then again I’m not defending Jimmy LaSalvia nor George Lopez(who isn’t funny).
FreddyMertz
@William Turner: Actually I do…and I’ve used my language skills to live in those countries for a brief period of time to help the sick and the poor, why you may ask…it’s the Christian thing to do. 🙂
rick
Don’t the people who find George Lopez funny know admitting that fact proves they have a sub-90 IQ?
Of course they don’t. They’re all idiots.
chris
People are too lazy to use a dictionary and check, he could have said that it meant elvis impersonator and people would take his word for it.
Gabriel
@FreddyMertz: Then I suggest you to improve your knowledge on Mexican Spanish. He’s Mexican-American. In Mexico, “puta” means “whore,” but also “slut.” Meanwhile, “puto” is used as “faggot” 95% of the times. I don’t think anyone would think about a hustler when they hear that word. Since most Latinos in the US are Mexican descent, the word among the Hispanic community is quite known, regardless of whether the use it in their country of origin or not. Cheers, a Mexican.
Gabriel
@William Turner: @FreddyMertz: Then I suggest you to improve your knowledge on Mexican Spanish. He’s Mexican-American. In Mexico, “puta” means “whore,” but also “slut.” Meanwhile, “puto” is used as “fa**t” 95% of the times. I don’t think anyone would think about a hustler when they hear that word. Since most Latinos in the US are Mexican descent, the word among the Hispanic community is quite known, regardless of whether the use it in their country of origin or not. Cheers, a Mexican.
Full story here: http://www.queerty.com/comedian-george-lopez-ticked-off-goproud-we-still-wont-watch-him-20120717/#ixzz20vzFqszM
Gabriel
@FreddyMertz: Btw, making that reference between poverty and Hispanic people. Totally relevant. Classy, I’d dare saying. Pity no one bothers doing the same when it comes to humanity and Americans.
Mike
Isn’t Jimmy LaSalvia Italian? Why is he telling a Mexican what he can or can’t say in Spanish about another person anyway?
skeloric
@Gabriel:
Speaking for fellow Americans, why would anyone ever state something so obvious?
of course we Americans do very poorly on the humanity — can’t you see most of us aren’t even trying?
Opposition to Equal Marriage still going quite strong.
Despite Emancipation in 1865 and then full Civil Rights around 1965 there are still people in the US trying to undo BOTH of them even today.
We bomb the hell out of countries after making up flimsy excuses about how NOT finding weapons of mass destruction within their borders somehow PROVES they exist.
Oh, and ‘waterboarding’ is deemed NOT to be torture.
Trust me, you’d be making a fine argument IF there was any sort of counter evidence.
But there isn’t any such counter evidence so you are just being Captain Obvious.
Ugly
I know GOProud and it’s members are a joke, but why are you letting ugly George Lopez off the hook? You know very well what he meant by “puto” considering he followed it up with “come out of the closet”. He’s also made other slick remarks about gays in his “comedy”.
The Bony Man
@William Turner: Una nota, probablemente prefieres confirmar que el nombre y el adjetivo se agradezcan cuando intentes probar que hables español… No se si fue un error de tecleo, o solo no sabes la diferencia, solo queria notar eso.
William Turner
@The Bony Man:
What the hell are you talking about? Please identify the gender agreement mistakes you say I’ve made; as far as I can tell, there are none.
PS: You, on the other hand, did make a number of errors: “Agradezcan” (word makes no sense in that sentence); “hables” (verb is inexplicably in the subjunctive); “sabes” (should be “conoces” or “sabes cuál es”), “solo” (in the sense you mean it and in the context of that sentence, it must be written as “sólo”), to say nothing of the fact that you use no accents.
Gabriel
I love it how suddenly we have all these gringos with perfect Spanish. Gringos with enough authority to if a word means something in Mexican slang or not. Love it.
paul berman
i always thought pato refered to gay men. translation means duck.
Bob
Puto means faggot case closed. Get over it. Puta means whore, slut, bitch.