It's strange that a controversy simmers for more than a week because trends on social networks have less expiration date than fresh milk, but for two weeks Inés Hernand has been serving as a piñata to the group of grumpy people, which nowadays is a political ideology with the popularity and significance that Christian democracy or Marxism once had. In fact, we could consider it a cult because, after all, conventional ideologies are forgotten by us for three quarters of the day, except for the paramilitants (a lucky expression of the columnist Israel Merino). To do the laundry or organize the pans we don't need to remember acronyms. On the other hand, making habits is a decision that accompanies us from morning to night, and even when we are asleep, and such is the performance of bad mood.
Inés Hernand, who presented the red carpet of the Goyas, committed the cardinal sin of calling the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, "handsome", who, apart from other attributes on which there are opposing opinions, is scientifically handsome and positively And there will be multiple studies from NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that will ratify it. The Nordic coldness of Ursula von der Leyen is worth as proof of this incontrovertible truth.
RTVE's interactive news council resigned yesterday because the rest of the TV colleagues did not support their protests against the presenter's effusiveness when she saw the tall man arrive on the red carpet.
It's sad to have to claim humor and lightness, or explain the codes that govern variety shows - and why they can't and shouldn't be filtered through the sieve of news equanimity - but since someone has to do it, here is an effortful volunteer: one of the disorders of the present is literalism, which we can define as a form of contemporary illiteracy that consists in not knowing how to decode any non-literal sense of language, nor irony, neither sarcasm, nor allegories, nor jokes, nor synecdoche nor, of course, the figurative sense.
It's not banal, because this inability has ended up putting comedians, singers and clowns in the dock, which indicates that legal language is quite inept at modulating the meaning of what you read or hear. If we transcend a little further, it is easy to see the pointed ears of fascism behind the literalists.
The inhabitants of liberal and enlightened societies can only answer as a colossus, Miguel Gila, would do: "If you can't take a joke, leave the town".
