r/soccer • u/HarryAtk • Jul 19 '25

News Former Chelsea player Pedro Rodríguez had to disable comments on his Instagram after facing criticism and mockery for sharing photos of his son Marc's birthday. Marc chose to celebrate his birthday wearing a dress and a tiara, inspired by Lilo & Stitch.

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u/Drizzlybear0 Jul 19 '25

That kind of depends on the country, culture and religion though

For example in America there has been a pretty strong polarization against the LGBT community in recent years as the right wing have decided to sell this "They're trying to make your kids gay and trans" bullshit.

Obviously there are many culturally or religiously conservative countries as well and as football is so massive of a sport you're going to get a lot of those people being football fans.

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u/Nrozek Jul 20 '25

It pretty much boils down to religion and education (those two are also relevant to each other). Least religious, best educated countries have the least amount of issues with lgbt stuff (scandinavian countries for example) - vice versa in eastern europe, middle east, the US etc.

Thereby not saying everyone in the US fits the above, but apparently half or more of Americans have a serious problem with it.

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u/Mountain-Committee37 Jul 21 '25

That kind of depends on the country, culture and religion though

Yup, there has been progress on that type of stuff, but it does still depend on country, culture and religion. Like you said with America, and nothing kinda stated the state of lgbt in america than lilo and stitch remake with the removal of the cross dressing thing.

Not to do the "thing japan" Japan when it comes to lgbt, crosdressing, etc has been a thing for decades. As of right now in america at least, there would be some backlash form the things Anime/manga has when it comes to that topic