Sofía Niño de Rivera is a Mexican content creator and stand-up artist who has won the affection of some and the rejection of others, resulting from her already controversial opinions regarding politics in Mexico, religion and common acts that come on stage during her stand-up shows .
It was during the most recent broadcast of the program La Entrevista con Yordi with Yordi Rosado, where the Mexican City-born girl delved into her childhood in Chihuahua, her relationship with her parents, how her way of doing comedy has evolved, his career in the stand up iband how he has learned to cope with the negative points.
“Yes, especially in a country where being a woman, being white, being privileged, being a comedian and free; free women are not very common in this country either, free I mean freedom of expression, that is, they don't really mind saying what they think; it's hard because they're going to criticize you from all sides,” said the 40-year-old comedian.
To give context to netizens who follow Yordi Rosado's interview channel; Niño de Rivera gave as an example a part of her most recent special on Amazon Prime, in which she “mocks” Jesus, and for which, many followers began to criticize her for making comedy of something like religion.
“How difficult to live in a world where there are so many differences of beliefs, opinions, traumas, so many wounds, so many sects. For me there is a lot of 'sectism', both political, religious, and social, there are a lot of fears, which I understand, so they cling to other things to survive,” stressed the standupera who participated in the third season of the Amazon Prime comedy production LOL.
“How hard to try, not even, is it that everyone hates you, how difficult to try not to offend anyone. It's very difficult, so I already stopped trying, so I put and let anyone be offended, you can't do anything else,” he added to the conversation that lasted just over 1 hour and a half.
Later, the first woman to present a Netflix comedy show in history with Sofía Niño de Rivera: Exposed (2016) delved into why she believes causes controversy and said, which is because it represents things in which society still has many taboos.
“I represent strong women, I represent privileged people, I represent human beings who think differently, represented freedom, represented lack of morals. I represent many things that many people find it difficult to let go of,” emphasized the comedian who debuted in dramatic art in 2015.
“I understand that I am privileged, that I was born into a privileged family... The subject of privilege is what you do where you are born, because you don't choose where you are born. I understand that I come from a family and privileged situation, but I wanted to create my own success,” said Niño de Rivera.
Finally, the female historian who gave life to Emilia in the Netflix production, Club de Cuervos, spoke out about the allegations against her after a netizen broadcast a video from the past, where Niño de Rivera explained that to boost her career at the time 28, a salary of 30,000 pesos was insufficient, which caused social networks to turn against him.
“If they catch me on a good day, it doesn't bother me much, the first thing I do is always see if I screw it* [...] but if it's something like 30 thousand pesos, I say 'they are criticizing me for wanting to improve myself as a person and professional', I never said 'my miserable salary, I never said it was a disgusting paycheck. ' If you see the full interview, I said that advertising was poorly paid because I had a university and years of experience,” he argued.
“You can never talk about money, because there are people who earn less than you, but there are also people who earn more than me. The problem of the Mexican and Latino is that they don't like people to overcome each other, they don't like that if it doesn't come from scratch you believe in something, they don't like a woman to be successful [...] ”, he concluded.
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