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A friend of mine one introduced his girlfriend to a Colombian friend. He was quite surprised.
He name was Marieke, he heard maricon (pronounced quite similar) that's a Latin slur for gay too.
Thanks for filling in the etymology!
At best, it sounds vaguely like marica, which is another common slur, but just like my reply ti some dumbass claiming veado and viado are the same in Portuguese, you would have to have some sort of developmental disorder to think Marieke and marica sound the same, or completely ignore Spanish orthography.
Comparing dialectal variation with developmental disorder? That's xenophobia and ableism in a single stroke, it's as filthy and disgusting as the nationalism and classism you parroted in your earlier comment. You're a bigot and deserve to be treated as such.
And you're still spreading misinformation. Yes, both words sound the same in a lot of pronunciations. No amount of you lying will magically change this.