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Surely until this Thursday night very few viewers were aware of the existence of the new campaign of the Ministry of Equality for the
International Day against Gender Violence
and, even less, they were aware that in this campaign, the campaign of "the more than a million euros, characters like
El Xokas
or
Pablo Motos
were singled out.But yes, the campaign, carried out by the
Ogilvy Madrid
agency , provoked on the day of its premiere, this Monday, a wave of criticism and the reaction of El Xokas, who announced legal measures against it.
Pablo Motos
's reaction was missing , and the reaction came last night like a tsunami towards the Ministry directed by
Irene Montero
.
But let's go in parts to understand the indignation not only of the presenter but of his entire cast of collaborators who attacked a campaign that has cost, as
Pablo Motos
revealed last night, "
more than a million euros of public money
."
The campaign is a succession of scenes that begin with a live broadcast from a streamer who lets it slip that he has a friend who only drinks juices when he goes out to parties "to hook up with drunk girls."
A scene that clearly refers to
El Xokas
and the confessions that the Galician made about a friend of his who pretended to be drunk while drinking juices to take advantage of women at night.
On Tuesday, a day after the premiere, the streamer responded harshly against the Ministry and against Minister
Irene Montero
: "I never talk about the Government because they are speeches that divide, but you make me lose faith.
Get to work and stop shooting the money
. Because that ad was paid for by me and all the taxpayers and
it's a fucking shame
. And the measures I'm going to take are something private. I hope this kind of thing ends soon."
In the next scene,
a "slimy"
television presenter appears asking a guest if she sleeps in sexy or comfortable clothes.
Although you have to go back to 2016 to link this scene with
Pablo Motos
, there were not a few who quickly identified that scene with the interview that
Pablo Motos
did to
Elsa Pataky
that year in
El Hormiguero
.
In that interview, the presenter asked the actress the same question, that she went to
El Hormiguero
precisely to present a Christmas campaign for the
Women Secret
brand of sexy Christmas underwear.
Pablo Motos: "It's indecent"
For those of us who saw the campaign, it was clear that
Pablo Motos
' response was going to arrive.
And he arrived last night at the collaborators table.
After the interview with
Manuel Carrasco
and with
Juan del Val
,
Nuria Roca
,
Tamara Falcó
and
Cristina Pardo
at the table, the presenter brought out all the artillery against the veiled attack and the signaling of the
Ministry of Equality
.
I do not know very well why he started with the law of yes is yes, with which since the program this week they have been very critical, nor why speed was mixed with bacon.
One house is the controversial law and another thing is a campaign that mercilessly seeks to point out certain personalities.
I imagine that since the Pisuerga passes through Valladolid...
"As you know from this program we have strongly criticized the law of only yes is yes", the presenter started very seriously.
"The
Ministry of Equality
has spent more than a million euros of public money on a television campaign to call me a macho. I know, I know that it is vulgar because they point to everyone, but it is that I have been made an announcement.
They have made me an announcement on TV!
Spending more than a million euros from the Spanish while the country is as it is is indecent", sentenced the presenter to then point out that despite everything, this had its funny part.
Fun, what is said to be fun is not.
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He then took the opportunity to show the headlines of the media in which it was pointed out that the Ministry directed by
Irene Montero
pointed out in its new campaign
EL Xokas
,
Pablo Motos
and the
Betis
fans .
A campaign that, in the words of the Ministry itself, aims to challenge "men as the cause of violence against women and, at the same time, as an essential part of ending this violence."
Next, the presenter gave way to the part of the campaign based on that 2016 interview. In the campaign you can see a slimy presenter who asks the question and a guest who turns to the camera and sentences:
"No, this question is not I would do it to a man
. "
"I asked this question in 2016 to
Elsa Pataky
, but
Elsa Pataky
came to present a campaign for sexy underwear and pajamas," warned
Pablo Motos
.
And then the moment of that interview - "I have recovered the moment so that you can see the slimy tone that the campaign has used and what really happened" -.
Indeed,
Pablo Motos
asked
Elsa Pataky
if she slept in sexy clothes or in comfortable clothes.
The moment was like this: "Sorry, it's not an intimate question, it's journalistic:
are you, when you sleep, your underwear sexy or comfortable?
"
To which
Elsa Pataky
, without seeming uncomfortable at any time and laughing, replied: "Not very comfortable because in the end what is comfortable becomes not very sexy because
you always want your partner to be a little... tense
."
"As you can see, neither am I being slimy nor is she uncomfortable,"
Pablo Motos
replied .
And just in case it was not clear,
Pablo Motos
puts back the moment of the campaign in which the guest turns after the question and warns that this question would not be asked if she were a man.
"The Ministry of Equality is lying. Let's see how many times I have asked similar questions to men."
And a series of videos of
Pablo Motos
asking very similar questions to male guests like
Maluma
,
Sergio Dalma
or
Miguel Ángel Silvestre
.
"Well, I just have to add your honor. I don't want to get angry, but...", the presenter concluded.
The blunder of the Ministry of Equality with Pablo Motos
Angry, he was very angry, of course.
In particular, the scene used by the
Ministry of Equality
has nothing to do with reality.
But, did the presenter do the right thing in responding to the Ministry of Equality about a campaign that few had heard about?
Or was it giving it a place in
El Hormiguero
to give it publicity that by itself it had not achieved despite, even, the controversy?
The reality is that neither
Pablo Motos
behaved like a slob in that interview, nor did
Elsa Pataky
feel uncomfortable - and if she was, she did the role of her life - nor was the question inappropriate.
Elsa Pataky
had gone to
El Hormiguero
because she was the image of that sexy underwear campaign and she was going to present it.
In other words, the question was pertinent and at no time was it treated in a macho way or that it offended the guest.
In fact, prior to that question, it is
Pablo Motos
himself who states that men have three types of underpants, "those to go to work, those to go out and the loose rubber ones to sleep in."
On that occasion, precisely not.
The
Ministry of Equality
erred in choosing that moment and erred in how it used it.
The background, not because it is undeniable that there are many interviews in which uncomfortable and macho questions are thrown at the guests, but precisely that of
Elsa Pataky
, no.
The agency that has carried out the campaign of the
Ministry of Equality
and the Ministry itself, have screwed up to the hock.
They have gone to the easy, to the shocking, but to what was not like that.
In fact, if the intention of the
Ministry of Equality
was to point out and lynch
Pablo Motos
, he only had to travel one year after the interview with
Elsa Pataky
.
To the year 2017, when the cable girls
were invited to
El Hormiguero ,
Blanca Suarez
,
Maggie Civantos
,
Nadia de Santiago
and
Ana Fernández
.
That interview did bring a tail, so much so that it was the starting signal for the image of
Pablo Motos
as that of a macho and "slimy" presenter.
Maggie Civantos
herself
- and also
Nadia de Santiago
- harshly criticized the presenter days later for the type of questions he had asked during the interview: "I would have liked to have told Pablo other things. But I don't think
Pablo Motos
is a exception in society. We suffer from this constantly, in other television programs. I simply believe that it is a reflection of reality, of what I live in my day to day. Pablo made the comments that we hear every day at the bar , anywhere. These are 'micromachismos' that in the end are becoming 'macro' because fortunately we have the magnifying glass on it. I think we have to fight a lot against that".
The commotion of that interview was tremendous and, yes, that interview was macho.
In fact, since that interview,
Pablo Motos
' attitude towards the guests who have passed through
El Hormiguero
has undergone a radical change.
How many times since then have pages and pages been written again -as then- describing the presenter as macho?
It has been possible to write pages and pages criticizing other things, but rarely like that interview.
Pablo Motos
asked those questions that the
Ministry of Equality
wanted to point out in his campaign, but the Ministry preferred to go easy, to "sexy" because, perhaps, it was more complicated to reflect those micro-machismo with the questions from that interview with
Las Chicas del cable
in which
Pablo Motos
asked them if the girls knew how to twerk, if the girls got along or turned green or with which Hollywood actor they wanted to have a sex scene.
Much more shocking, without a doubt, to play a question about sexy underwear and
Elsa Pataky
.
But if
Pablo Motos
went with a machete against the Ministry of Equality, much more so was
Juan del Val , the scriptwriter for the
El Hormiguero
program for five years
and who was more than clear last night: "I have been a scriptwriter for this program for 5 seasons and He is extremely careful so that no one feels offended in this program. There are great jokes from this team that sacrifice themselves so as not to bother."
Juan del Val sentences the Ministry of Equality
Nuria Roca
also
joined the 'host': "It strikes me that those of us who know the world of advertising know that there is a lot of work there. Here the client is the
Ministry of Equality
and the agency is the one that gets this advertising To do this publicity there must be a guideline and I am very scandalized that this type of publicity is done from the
Ministry of Equality
".
And, of course,
Cristina Pardo
, whom it is difficult to label as contrary to the
Ministry of Equality
: "Yes, I would like to say that I am very sorry that
politics is becoming a policy of social networks, of pointing out, of speaking badly, of offending people, of lynching
. I think it's the politics we're in and I hope it's not the one we're going to."
And finally,
Tamara Falcó
: "I find it outrageous that for a program that we have a good time, they go after you and spend a million euros on a campaign that seems like shit to me (...) She came to campaign for underwear,
what did they want me to ask about Freud
."
But if
Pablo Motos
was pissed off and enraged, even though he didn't want to appear so,
Juan del Val
was even more indignant .
As a scriptwriter of the program that
El Hormiguero
is pointed out like this , more than
Pablo Motos
himself , it touches not only the presenter but all those who are in charge of making the program every day: "Feminism is being loaded with this type of campaigns The problem is when they tell you, 'it's your turn to offend'. This is a specific campaign against a specific person and it is structured that way because they take criticism very badly. And if you take it that badly to do something so rude and vulgar to do something like that you have a problem understanding democracy".
Pablo Motos
did not want to make more blood, the blow had already been enough or, at least, the relief had already been enough.
But he did want to finish off with a phrase that is the same as the one that should make society think the most, but also the
Ministry of Equality
.
There he left it: "
Feminism is a necessary social movement, but it does not belong to any political party
. It is neither of one nor of the other."
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