Brazil - Who's Afraid of Simone de Beauvoir? - Written by Fernanda Canofre (Globalvoices) At the end of October, seven million young people had to sit and think about the persistence of violence against women in Brazil.
![]() Simone De Beauvoir, painted portrait. Photo by Flickr user thierry ehrmann. CC BY 2.0 The feminists who went on to do ENEM when they saw the essay's themeThe Brazilian Internet exploded on that Sunday. Feminists took to Twitter and Facebook and celebrated the “most libertarian and feminist” ENEM so far. It seemed that knowledge of feminist theories were extremely relevant for achieving a good mark on the essay, an important component of the overall grade. But what about the trolls who spent the year harassing feminists on the Internet? Spend the year complaining about feminists texts on the Internet, now will have to write a feminist text in ENEM's essay. IT LOOKS LIKE THE GAME HAS CHANGEDThe feminists who went on to do ENEM when they saw the essay's themeThe Brazilian Internet exploded on that Sunday. Feminists took to Twitter and Facebook and celebrated the “most libertarian and feminist” ENEM so far. It seemed that knowledge of feminist theories were extremely relevant for achieving a good mark on the essay, an important component of the overall grade. But what about the trolls who spent the year harassing feminists on the Internet?Spend the year complaining about feminists texts on the Internet, now will have to write a feminist text in ENEM's essay. IT LOOKS LIKE THE GAME HAS CHANGEDAbout ENEM's essay question: misogynists shall not pass (literally)The essay question is not “does it exist or not”. It's about the PERSISTENCE of the violence against women. No exit for those who didn't want to agree.The backlash begins A photo of one of the test questions featuring the excerpt from Beauvoir circulated on social media. It read: About ENEM's essay question: misogynists shall not pass (literally) The essay question is not “does it exist or not”. It's about the PERSISTENCE of the violence against women. No exit for those who didn't want to agree.The backlash begins A photo of one of the test questions featuring the excerpt from Beauvoir circulated on social media. It read: “No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in society; it is civilization as a whole that produces this creature, intermediate between the male and eunuch, which is described as feminine.” – Beauvoir, S. The Second Sex. In the 1960s, Simone de Beauvoir's proposition contributed to the rise of a social movement whose ethos was: Tweet: ENEM 2015, THIS IS THE WORKERS’ PARTY: “JOHN WASN’T BORN A MAN and MARY WASN’T BORN A WOMAN”. Statement in image: Equal or even more serious than corruption is the indoctrination imposed by the Workers’ Party on our youth. Their dream of transforming us into idiots is evident in many of ENEM's questions (National Exam of the MARXIST teaching). Those bastards should be eradicated from power in 2018 with the PRINT VOTE, or before, just as the Congress revoked the mandate of the communist João Goulart on April 2, 1964.While Feliciano similarly decried the “indoctrination” in all caps: EXPLICIT INDOCTRINATION OF GENDER IDEOLOGY TO 7 MILLION STUDENTS -> https://www.facebook.com/PastorMarcoFeliciano/posts/739248372881851 … – SHAME! ![]() Violence against women in Brazil is not a matter of left or right (or at least it shouldn’t be). All one needs to do is look at the alarming numbers of homicides and gender-based violence in the country. In 2014, Brazil had 47,646 rape cases registered, according to the Yearbook of Public Safety. That means — counting only reported cases — that every 11 minutes, a woman was attacked in the country. Brazil also ranks 7th among 84 countries with the highest rates of femicides. The 2012 Violence Map revealed that between 1990 and 2010, 91,000 women were murdered in Brazil. Last March, President Dilma Rousseff signed a law including “femicide” as a heinous crime into the Brazilian Penal Code. But is there hope? The last week of October saw some important developments in advancing the gender debate in Brazil. After some tweeted sexual comments about a 12-year-old girl participating in a Brazilian reality TV show, the hashtag #primeiroassedio (#firstharassment) engaged more than 82,000 women to share the first time they remembered being harassed. The following week, #MulheresContraCunha (#WomenAgainstCunha) gathered thousands of women online and in the streets to protest a bill that requires rape victims to go through forensic examinations prior to accessing healthcare and could also criminalize the morning-after pill. Eduardo Cunha is the president of the Brazilain Chamber of Deputies and the main supporter of the bill. ![]() |
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