ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay — Horacio Cartes, the tobacco magnate and front-runner for months in Paraguay’s presidential election on Sunday, has set off a fierce controversy here after publicly comparing gay people to “monkeys” and likening the support of same-sex marriage to believing in “the end of the world.”
In a radio interview this month, Mr. Cartes, 57, theatrically threatened to inflict harm on his own private parts if his 28-year-old son were to seek to marry another man.
“I would shoot myself in the testicles, because I do not agree,” he said.
I say, go ahead and fulfill your fantasy, Señor Cartes. Why make a joyous exercise of blowing up your testicles so dependent on another person’s choice of marriage partner?
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“I would shoot myself in the testicles”? This is bizarre. Is this a common phrase in Paraguay? Because it sounds very strange to me.
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Hyperbole
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I know testicles loom large in the national imagination, but as to the specific phrase, I don’t think I heard it before. 🙂
I think he means he will destroy the . . . khm. . . khm. . . the place where the son came from. I guess.
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Well, just looking at the shape of the nation, on a map…
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Be sure to use the double barrel shotgun
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And film it for everybody to enjoy!!
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