And the cartoonist's response went viral Laerte Coutinho gave the columnist Reinaldo Azevedo, after he made transphobic and disrespectful comments in a review of a cartoon published in the newspaper Folha de São Paulo.
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In the text published on his blog in Veja on Tuesday (25), Azevedo called Laerte – who is a transvestite – a "fake", "a man who pretends to be a woman", "a scoundrel", "a freak", "a fake lady ", "horrible woman" and "gender fraud".
Good-naturedly, Laertes replied: "That guy gives me a damn hard-on. I don't know what it is – okay, he's not an ogre – whether it's his determined look, his nose, his lips, I don't know! On those cold nights that I keep doing this and I stay under the covers and, as Henfil would say, I sin too much. I'm going to end up having to shave my hands with Spanish wax. I think I have platonic Stockholm syndrome."
The post had more than 10 thousand likes, dozens of comments and more than 1400 shares.
Afterwards, Reinaldo published a photo of him at a younger age and said that "it doesn't look good for Laerte to have solitary sex thinking about a 54-year-old man". "I'm offering two photos from when I was 20 to make you dream of more collagen, right? After all, masturbation has no historical time. It's possible to get excited even by Robespierre and Marat, without the scabbers. And look, Laerte, I he recited 'The Transition Program' by heart and sautéed.
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Reinaldo's transphobic criticism was motivated after the cartoonist published a cartoon on August 16, which showed protesters against President Dilma Rousseff taking selfies with military police officers, who were believed to be criminals.
Laerte even apologized "to anyone who felt offended", but justified himself. "Many protesters took selfies next to police officers and reproduced them extensively on social media, transforming this gesture into an icon of all marches so far. These people were not fraternizing with specific soldiers – they were demonstrating support for a corporation that has been identified as a of the most involved in the deaths of people in the country (according to Folha, in the first half of the year, there were 358 deaths "in confrontation")", he wrote.
