Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "Hilaria Baldwin Controversy Analysis" video.

@rullmourn1142 I agree. But there are some interesting questions underneath all this. I feel some empathy for Hilaría because I’ve had some experience wrestling with identity, which can be a slippery thing for some of us. Some people seem to be born with absolute surety about who they are. Perhaps they’ve never questioned their identity. Perhaps they’ve never had to question it. Perhaps people that don’t understand this woman have never had fantasy lives, or don’t remember having them. This woman had a fantasy persona or identity. She was apparently too hammy in the public eye, and that fantasy identity is shattered. I wonder what that must be like.
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Accents are weird things. I’m native born Californian, English is my first language, but I’ve grown up around Spanish my whole life. I like to joke that Spanglish is my first language, but it’s only a tiny bit true. I didn’t really become fluent in Spanish until after living in Mexico for a few years. So here’s the deal. I’ve got a gringo accent to my Spanish. I work at it, but I’ll probably always have it to some extent. It’s worse when I’m tired. But the funny thing is this: when I’ve been in Mexico for a while, immersed in Spanish, and I come back to L.A., I speak ENGLISH with a Mexican Spanish accent for at least a few days. I’m not trying to! And I’ll get words mixed up sometimes. Now my mother was born and raised in South Pasadena, California. He father was born and raised in Hawaii, the son of plantation workers who came to L.A. in the 1910s. My mother used to go visit her cousins on the Big Island, and they all spoke Hawaiinized English. Sort of like pidgin, but not really. They all can speak English perfectly if they need to. My mother would come back from her visits with this accent. It was pretty funny. And she could do it on command, but right after a trip it was unconscious. So I’m not saying that Hilaría isn’t nuts, but she has been fluent in Spanish from a young age and spent long periods immersed in Spanish speaking environments. We shouldn’t jump to conclusions about her accent.
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Your analysis was indeed interesting, but I think it was also unkind, especially in your conclusion. We, your fans, love your dry wit, but I felt a little uncomfortable with a few things you said that bordered on cruelty. With a little more empathy, this rather trivial matter could be an interesting entry into a discussion about identity, how it can be formed and unformed, self-image and presentation/persona, etc. Really, there are a hundred interesting paths this could have taken without devolving into a snark exercise. Oh, well. Better luck next time.
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