Spanish Father Confronts Comedian Who Sexualized His Baby Boy

Spanish comedian Jaime Caravaca was recently embroiled in a controversy after posting comments about a man’s three-month-old son on social media, in which he fantasized, among other things, that the baby would grow up to be promiscuous, homosexual, and to have certain fetishes involving immigrant men.

Caravaca had posted similar comments under photographs of children before, with the criteria being that the parents of those children be politically conservative or express patriotic feeling and Christian faith on social media.

Noone had confronted Caravaca before, but in this instance, the father of the three-month-old decided to do so in person, taking the stage and delivering a single blow to the comedian, who sat down and didn’t move as his aggressor apologized to the audience for the interruption, explaining why he was there (receiving tacit agreement from the venue’s security, who did nothing to stop him).

The father in question is called Alberto Pugilato, and is apparently a right-wing political activist and singer.

I don’t know the details of his activism and am therefore not endorsing his ideology, whatever it may be, but this isn’t relevant because, again, Caravaca goes after mainstream folks as well, and Pugilato was not acting out of ideological disagreement but on account of a direct insult.

For their part, Jorge Buxadé and Hermann Tertsch of VOX have endorsed or signaled support for Pugilato in this instance on their X accounts. 

And this story has a happy ending: as Caravaca also apologized for his comments on social media afterwards, admitting he had been out of line.

The Spanish government, for its part, defended Caravaca, with Spain’s minister of culture, Ernest Urtasun, expressing his support of the comedian. This makes sense, given that Spain is ruled by a postmodern anti-worker woke coalition that supports children transitioning and similar abominations.

The father, in any case, accepted Caravaca’s apology, tweeting that he bears the comedian no ill will, and considers the matter closed. 

The short-lived saga is interesting because it shows us what happens when real life trumps the internet and online perversion and political animosity is taken into the real world.

The internet-induced divorce from physicality and social relations crumbles and we’re forced to reckon with the body and ‘the other:’ in this case, an angry father restoring the bounds of discourse to a place where expressing negative thoughts about an infant, including its future life and especially in a sexual context, is not acceptable. 

It shows us that even government-sponsored hacky comedians can be shocked into retreating from their porn-brained psychological hell and culturally dominant “anything goes if it’s directed against evil conservatives” discourse.

One real-world confrontation canceled-out the government and mainstream media’s support and got this man to apologize. 

Of course, we can’t advocate for assault, but we can use the controversy to reflect on the absurdity of a legal system in which we have hate speech laws to do with all kinds of protected categories of citizens, but not, apparently, to defend the dignity of children.

In addition, we might consider whether our legal system should fathom the possibility of a combat, non-lethal, version of old-fashioned duels when a public insult is severe enough and involves a person’s children.

There is also the issue of the undeniable efficacy of physical punishment, which is a feature of sacred law across traditions, from Vedic religion to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. 

It only took a slap from an angry father for Caravaca to take a step forward in maturity and repent from expressing perverse thoughts about a baby. 

I hope he is guided towards spiritual health, and am heartened by Pugilato’s public willingness to reconcile, but it did take a real, physical confrontation to get there.