2024-02-14 10:46:09
“Roberto Ramos Mori: you are a misogynist and abuser of women. I’ve never seen you act cute with a man. And all of Havana knows it. And all those who support you: your accomplices and eliminate me now.”
This is how the Cuban feminist activist Mónica Baró wrote on her social networks in March 2023.
What came next was a flood of testimonies from women who suffered psychological and verbal abuse at the hands of the Havana tattoo artist, owner of Estudio La Marca and the inn La Cueva del Pirata, two businesses in the lucrative historic center of Havana.
Animal welfare activist Beatriz Batista confirmed the designer’s violence, to the point that she had to remove him from her social networks. “for quite offensive and rude comments against me.” He described it as “a detestable being.”
A year has passed since these testimonies of misogyny came to light and, however, none of the entities of the feminist movement in Cuba have come out to defend the women they claim to represent. Not a cancellation for the I do believe younot a complaint for him Cuban Gender Observatory.
Could it be that it is not believed or reported when the accused is homosexual and leftist? Could it be that the same media that should put together a note have on their editorial staff the moral weight of having praised Ramos Mori for years, while he offended, defamed and harassed Christians and conservatives?
Roberto Ramos Mori, pampered by the independent press and feminism
Claudina Gómez, another Facebook user, recalled how he had told her to shut up because “she was white and heterosexual” y “I couldn’t give my opinion on certain topics because I had ‘privileges’.”
This neo-Marxist rhetoric, which some of the offended women also exuded on their networks, caused the feminist Masiel Rubio to block it. “yes, because violent”. “I no longer take the trouble to respond or pay attention to any of the clan,” said the woman.
He was referring to the group of radicals that gravitates around Ramos Mori. Some of them, such as the socialist reporter Maykel González Vivero and the trans activists Mel Herrera and Kiriam Gutiérrez, were spearheads in promoting the gender ideology proposed by Castroism in legislation starting with the 2019 Constitution.
In that context, which pitted citizens led by the largest evangelical churches against the Castro elite and leftist groups that identified as independent, Ramos Mori was pampered by the non-state press.
The web The touchdescribed him in 2022 as someone who is a regular at “events of elTOQUE collaborators, filling with drawings a notebook that they have just been given as a gift; on San Lázaro Street, in front of a small bicycle caravan that goes waving rainbow flags through the city; on Instagram, wearing a sweater with the text “bird” framed in a rainbow rectangle; on Telegram, raising funds to print stickers for an “inclusive” Family Code”.
Feminist activism adored him. Sandra Heidl, from the blog Negra Cubana Had to Be, witnessed it: “On my body I have two Robertico tattoos… So you can imagine, dear Monica, how upset this matter makes me. Roberto knows that he is violent. I know that he has been told. That constant allusion he makes to one’s body and intelligence is very heavy.”
The female feminist confessed that the last time she heard from him, before blocking him, was in a debate about “privileges, white hegemony, coloniality and other related topics.” At that moment he blocked it. “He re-victimized me so much that my first and only reaction was to block him. And you will know that I do not have thin skin at all. Now that I was in Cuba I didn’t go to La Marca because I didn’t want to run into it.”.
Heidl acknowledged that for years people have constantly blocked him, because “Our psychological and emotional integrity is at stake. Just because he is a bird does not give him any right or reason to violate people. “The faggot does not take away the misogynist nor the racist.”
Cover-up of violence among LGBT activists?
Sam Olazábal, another feminist, testified that she also has a tattoo of hers, in the center of her chest, by the same artist she considered guilty of “sexist violence.”
Among the last interactions I had with Ramos Mori, he said, there was a very violent one. “I was coming out of a complex emotional situation, which he knew about, and after not showing up for a while I stopped by the Pirate for a while. There, in front of a table full of acquaintances, he started to tell me very loudly that if I was already tired of ‘giving others pity’, I told him (trying not to give in to the attack and respond) that when was he going to get tired of talking about me, and he told me ‘not about you, about your husbands’, alluding to my relationship at that time, with a person who suffers from bipolar disorder.”
Olazábal considered that it was not only an attack on her, but a comment “violent and discriminatory towards a neurodivergent person.”
In emotional shock, the young woman felt that LGBT activist Maykel González Vivero noticed and tried to calm her down, telling her not to pay attention to him, that he was like that, a phrase that she confesses to having heard countless times.
Did this story reveal the cover-up and justification of psychological violence against women among LGBT activism?
Olazábal said that Ramos Mori’s misogyny can be identified through phrases such as that his anger is with “women ‘with buns’” or, what is it “bollophobic”.
Background that no one saw?
Independent reporter Mauricio Mendoza told a revealing story about Ramos Mori’s character: “After 9/11 at night we met at a house where I went to take refuge and write a note about what had happened. It was a tense day, and he started calling me a worm and a mercenary.”
Mendoza said that with one hand he grabbed him by the neck and hit him against a wall, and then someone interceded. “to save his neck and because there are moments where one thinks things over and pity wins.”
For the journalist, “All his actions are to gain prominence. For me, he doesn’t care about animals, LGBTI struggles – even if he is gay – trans people, skateboarders. “His thing is being a center.”
However, the question arises: did no one realize how disgusting the tattoo artist was when he attacked Cuban Christians since 2018? He, a signatory of #AcciónLGBTIQba, at that time posted the image of a burning temple along with the hashtag #LaIglesiaQueMejorIluminaEsLaQueArde.
Likewise, he incited them to attack believers even more directly in January 2019, when he called on one of his followers to “answer them in the streets.” “Here [en FB] It’s more blablabla and chuchuchú…..and it’s because of gfusto (sic)!” he posted. “Don’t you have a church in your town? –urged his follower Ramos Mori- Well, get off those sons of bitches!
Among the responses to his own post he added, comparing believers to sexually transmitted diseases: “Well, better sooner than later! Prevention, as with STIs. A condom from now on, so that they know that we are not afraid, the very singaos!”
Ramos Mori and other activists led an ongoing digital harassment against evangelical leader Sandy Cancino and other believers during the constitutional debates.
Communism and the LGTBI lobby unite against educational freedom in Cubahttps://t.co/WNCSqHGG9m
— Actuall (@actuallcom) August 1, 2019
There was also no criticism from LGBT or feminist activism when he mocked the prisoners of conscience Ramón Rigal and Adya Expósito, pastors torn from the company of their minor children for practicing home education, and refusing to allow them to be indoctrinated in the system. teaching socialist.
True to his interest in the worst causes, Ramos Mori is now a staunch anti-Israel, and obsessively shares information about Gaza on his social media profiles. Now the Cuban left has discarded him, but what new monsters will he create?
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