2023-09-05 19:00:52
Barcelona These people who say that sports are not important. That they are not interested. That we shouldn’t talk about it. Satisfied, thinking that when they say it, they look smarter than the rest of the world, than those who have no problem getting excited about the feat of an athlete. Those who say that there are very negative values in sports, which is quite true, as if there weren’t the same group of film producers and directors, but with ties instead of tracksuits. As if we didn’t have sexist, homophobic, corrupt politicians, businessmen and publishers.
Those who ignore sports should pay some attention to what happens in stadiums and arenas. Not to enjoy the show, since it can be quite normal that you don’t like what happens there, but to avoid ideas that we don’t like being sent there. To prevent hate from controlling discourse on platforms that reach thousands of people. After more than a century of masculinity, sport is finally a stage for the feminist struggle, for example. Without so many brave women who have made their way, now we would not have so many nervous and offended gentlemen, because for the first time they feel questioned and judged. Without realizing that they have done the same all their lives: judging, mocking and not listening to women.
Sport is another platform to fight. Not the best, not the worst. one more And we cannot leave it in the hands of the intolerant. These days we have seen it with the case of the Turkish women’s volleyball player Ebrar Karakurt. For the first time in history, the Turkish women’s national team has won the prestigious FIVB Nations League defeating the best teams in the world. In a country where sport is followed with passion, people took to the balconies to celebrate the triumph. Now, far-right politicians and Islamists got scared. One of the stars of the team is Karakurt, who wears short hair dyed pink and has never hidden that she is a lesbian.
New Contract, one of the main Islamist newspapers, called the triumph a “shame” as it allows Karakurt to smile. In Turkey, being homosexual is not a crime, but more and more voices are calling for it to be punished by law. When the Islamists published an article calling for her to be left out of the national team, Karakurt bravely uploaded a picture on social media of a volleyball player jumping to break chains. He has received death threats and a lot of insults. Also millions of messages of support. When he left it with his partner, he was the star of an editorial of New Contract who criticized her for making it public during Ramadan. Now that she is champion, she has posted a message on the networks where she says: “I’m on top of the world, your criticisms don’t get to me.”
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