PUBLIC APOLOGY
I want to offer the most humble and from the heart apology for the image I previously shared on this community. To Daniel Levine who directly commented about the issue, to others whom I may have offended but didn’t commented anything. And SPECIALLY to Meguey Baker who has been very supportive of my small work and has stood at my side defending the small language doubts I’ve been having. I feel horrible right now… and I feel I let her down in the most stupid way…
I could go on talking about the meaning of the image, trying to give it context, the metaphors or meanings the angels have… but all that feels like excuses. An there are none. I should’ve known better.
All I’m going to say is that we as Mexicans grow up in a very machista society. And there are things we quickly learn to identify as wrong because they are so obvious, but there are others (I’ve heard they are called “micro-machismos”) that we don’t realize are wrong (until too late).
I want to state also that Edgar Clement’s is not ill intented when drawing this. I’m sure of it because I know him, because I’ve talked to him, and because he cares for the people and the society in a sincere way (he has even posted some stuff about feminism and the terrible femicides wave happening accross Mexico), but he’s also Mexican like me, and prompt to this micro-machismos as we all.
Again, I’m so terrible sorry about all this. Perdón, perdón, perdón…
