The content creator Madame Lewis (@soraylewisguilart) posted a nearly five-minute video on TikTok last Monday, in which she candidly expresses her "deep disappointment" with Cuban men, a sentiment she claims has been "bottled up for days" and that she could no longer contain.
Filmed while waiting for a train, the video starts with a direct statement: "I have always held the Cuban man in high regard: a man of values, a man of principle, a hardworking man, a provider for his family. What happened in recent years?"
The answer she gives herself is striking: Cuban men have become what she calls "princesos."
According to Madame Lewis, these men spend their days on social media "chatting like gossiping women," contributing nothing constructive, while women bear the economic and social burdens.
"You see that they don't want to provide support in any capacity, at all. You only see them making a spectacle at Louis Vuitton, clowning around and acting foolishly on social media," she states in the video.
One of the most pointed aspects of her criticism addresses the absence of men during everyday crises in Cuba.
"Star of which firmament are you? Women are the stars. From which firmament do you come, that every time in Cuba they close off a block because there is no water, or when they confront the police, it's women?" she asks with evident frustration.
The creator also mentions the rise in gender-based violence as part of her disappointment: "To top it all off, they have taken to killing women. It’s constant on social media. They killed one in Santiago, they killed one in Havana... it’s happening right here in Cuba, women are being killed in passionate murders without rhyme or reason."
That background is documented. Cuba registers 21 femicides so far in 2026, with 17 additional attempts confirmed up to May 4, according to the independent observatories OGAT and Yo Sí Te Creo en Cuba.
In 2025, those same organizations documented 48 femicides on the island, with 83.3% of the cases committed by partners or ex-partners of the victims.
The Cuban regime does not publish official statistics on femicides, which makes these independent records the only available source, while the government claims not to keep track.
The video by Madame Lewis is part of an ongoing gender debate that has been active on TikTok for months among Cubans on the island and in the diaspora. In February, the Cuban @arielito.oficial sparked controversy by rejecting being called "princeso", dividing the online community.
In September 2025, a young Cuban went viral for responding to sexist comments about seeking women ten years younger, in a pattern that frequently occurs on these platforms.
Madame Lewis closed her video with an irony that summarizes her stance: "I don’t know what we women are going to have to do. We’re going to have to order men from Amazon, explain the characteristics of the men we want, because I’m not understanding anything."
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