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AlexpShannon Sims
6/01/16 12:19pm
Dilma was a shitty president. The charges against her were trumped up, but the process was legitimate.
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  JackmeriusAlexp
  6/01/16 12:28pm
  The process may have been legitimate but the ‘crime’ she was charged with was a practice that other Brazilian presidents have done before. At most, she should have been censured, but it was merely a pretext to get her out of office.
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  MyKinjaIsThrobbingAlexp
  6/01/16 12:31pm
  I was in Sao Paulo a few weeks ago (arrived the day Dilma got suspended). The people I talked to — all of them liberal and sympathetic to her ideology — said she was just a bad leader who made too many promises.
  
  That said: great article ... and yeah, it’s shitty how much of the political landscape is changing (the evangelical influence is very real and will likely keep getting bigger).
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Flamingo83Shannon Sims
6/01/16 11:48am
This is a global problem and one that people continue to ignore. They blame sex positive attitudes, lack of morals and “risky” behavior anything besides MISOGYNY. That the rapists feel brazen enough to post on social media tells you everything about how much of non criminal act they believe rape to be.
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  VulcansAreHeartbreakersFlamingo83
  6/01/16 12:03pm
  Today I read an article about a Korean woman who was stabbed to death by a man who hates women. He admitted he felt ‘ignored’ by women. The comments to that article? You’d think those men were being paid to deny misogyny exists. Everything from ‘mental illness’ to ‘women these days’ were trotted out for reasons at to why this man did what he did. Everything except hatred of women.
  
  Violence against women is a global epidemic, and we cannot begin to fix the problem if so many people deny the problem exists at all.
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  Flamingo83VulcansAreHeartbreakers
  6/01/16 12:21pm
  I believe it! It’s so sad they can’t just say this asshole couldn’t stand rejection and decided to kill someone than try to get over it. They always rush to say it was mental illness because admitting it was a fatal temper tantrum is too SCARY. I get told on the daily to lose weight, I’m old and ugly and had guys act horrified when they thought I had a crush on them. It hurt but not once did i think violence was an option. I just moved on and dated OTHER people.
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PaperHeartsShannon Sims
6/01/16 11:55am
And as the Brazilian Senate also voted in favor of impeachment, and a new cast stepped up to fill interim president Michel Temer’s government—the first Cabinet since the 1970s (during Brazil’s dictatorship) that’s made up of only white men—hope for advances for Brazilian women have dimmed.

Sincere question: Is it accurate that the Cabinet is made up only of white men? I know in the U.S. we’d probably classify Brazilians as Latinos, but I wondered whether race is perceived similarly in Brazil or if this is a slip by an American journalist.
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  Das, evil rabbit and obnoxious (half)germanPaperHearts
  6/01/16 12:01pm
  I don’t think that all of them are “white” by American standards (by which I mean people solely of European ancestry). Most of them are, but I think that a few of them have a small amount of native ancestry but appear as and identify as white. Race in Brazil is perceived pretty differently than in the US, but that probably should have been explained in the article.
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  SheeshTheseNamesPaperHearts
  6/01/16 12:02pm
  Race is perceived differently in places like Brazil in that a person that looks obviously mixed but has paler skin may be called “white” there, but make no mistake that anti-Blackness is the law of land, and Black Brazilians are severely under-represented, even though the majority of the country is either Black or Black-ish.
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ZabellaShannon Sims
6/01/16 11:55am
Dear Brazil: Please look at Evangelical control has done in US politics for the last few decades, it’s a road you do not want to travel.
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  Sorryboutsit49Zabella
  6/01/16 12:00pm
  I’m pretty sure you could flip that statement around and it would be more accurate. Dear US: Please look at what Christian control has done in Brazilian politics; it’s a road you do not want to travel.
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  Konway EastSorryboutsit49
  6/01/16 12:03pm
  Dear everyone: SEPARATE YOUR CHURCH AND STATE.
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Das, evil rabbit and obnoxious (half)germanShannon Sims
6/01/16 11:48am
Brazil has problems, for sure. It has a lot of problems. But writing articles that reek of “look at the scary brown people with their ‘retrograde culture’” doesn’t help.
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  Nicole WattersonDas, evil rabbit and obnoxious (half)german
  6/01/16 11:59am
  Do you live there? Because I am pretty sure that if you did, you’d be singing a different tune.
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  LunaAmarillaDas, evil rabbit and obnoxious (half)german
  6/01/16 12:12pm
  Jezebel also publishes articles that expose the“retrograde culture” of the US, though. There are articles about women’s rights being rolled back almost every week.
  
  Also, the author specifically talks about how the cabinet is all white men—I didn’t get a “scary brown people” vibe. I thought it was interesting to see how the issues facing Brazil parallel the issues facing the US in a number of ways.
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woorijipShannon Sims
6/01/16 11:47am
Americans (USA) are clueless when it comes to Latin America. Liberals, who might be considered natural allies for women’s rights in Brazil, are basically silent about the US-backed (Obama), right-wing coup in Brazil which has installed a ‘white minority’ government ruling over a black-majority population.
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  Das, evil rabbit and obnoxious (half)germanwoorijip
  6/01/16 11:54am
  And they’ll ignore the hundreds of years of foreign interference, colonialism, slavery, and the US-backed coup and say that all of the country’s problems must all be down to an inferior culture. That phrase “retrograde culture” just made me furious.
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  Justice Rains From My ButtDas, evil rabbit and obnoxious (half)german
  6/01/16 12:06pm
  Brazil has been independent since 1822. And even so, i’m not sure what any of that has to do with sexism.
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harmagedomShannon Sims
6/01/16 3:27pm
Every single thing in this article is true, and it doesn’t even begin to cover the shit-fest that the current ilegitim government is.

Oh, they finally put a woman in a power position, and as Secretary for Women Policies: Fátima Pelaes, a born-again Christian fundamentalist who’s 100% against abortion, even in cases of rape!

The new Minister of Culture? Another Christian fundamentalist who, a couple of days ago, had a meeting with Alexandre Frota, a porn star who once narrated in a tv show how he forced a woman to have sex with him, is a staunchy homophobic (although, to the bafflement of every sane person, acted on several gay porn movies), and has gone to said meeting to present a proposal for end what he calls “ideological and indoctrinating teaching”, meaning the teaching of gender issues, social issues, human rights and any mention of left leaning countries, governments, historical persons, even in the context of history classes.

Also, this Minister of Culture is proposing two investigations on Congress right now: one against artists who benefitted from the “Rouanet Law”, a law that allows artists to get financing for their works from private businesses, in exchange of tax breaks for these businesses, and another against the National Students Union, under the pretense that the Union would be mismanaging funding that they’re legally allowed to receive from the government. Pretty much everybody knows that those two investigations are attempts to retaliate against the artisitic class and students, for their opposition to the provisory government.

Meanwhile, literally EVERY person the provisory president Michel Temer appointed to a high position since the removal of Dilma has been found involved in scandals of corruption. Just last week several recordings had been released in the context of a running criminal investigation, where the top names in Temer’s provisory cabinet are caught openly discussing how the accusations and the impeachment process against Dilma Rousseff were just an excuse to remove her from seat and put someone who could stop the investigations that are quickly approaching these same high-office politicians! These people are actually caught saying that there’s actually nothing solid against Dilma, but she had to be removed, to put an end to investigations, and that the Supreme Court and the Military are in accord with them!

My country is right now under a coup d’etat, and slowly sliding into fascism... The sheer truth is that this farcical impeachment, and this ilegitim provisory government is, to sum what this article discusses at length, a reaction from our old oligarchy - corrupt career politicians, media conglomerates, and a rich elite - to the last 12 years of a social government, to policies that reduced, although just a little bit, the misery and the inequality, to affirmative actions that for the first time in our history broke the hegemonic white presence into Universities, putting a huge number of black people into it, to economic measures that improved the situation of the lower classes, inconveniencing our upper classes with their presence in airports, flights, fancy malls, and several other spaces previously “exclusive”, to policies that granted rights denied to the LGBT community for too long... Those and many more are the real reasons behind this “impeachment”.
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  Jan74harmagedom
  6/01/16 8:27pm
  Preach it. This is the best post on this entire issue. You are 100% correct.
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DentontheinsideShannon Sims
6/01/16 12:30pm
Currently, Brazilian social media is dominated by the question of whether or not the country suffers from a “rape culture.”

It’s a country with a failed government, where the law enforcement do nothing unless bribes are involved, and which has a history of devaluing females as property which certainly isn’t getting better at the moment given law enforcement is likely going “eh....my pay checks late, fuck it. Think I’ll moonlight for the local crime syndicate”

Rape Culture is a given in that country. The entire country is falling apart, and they had a horrid view of women’s place in society to begin with.

This is one of those times where poetic justice would be the victim having organized crime ties, and these 33 “disappearing” after a “thorough investigation” by law enforcement which will never find the 33 of them dead in a ditch somewhere.
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  MalcireDentontheinside
  6/01/16 1:02pm
  Wouldn’t failing be more apt than failed? I mean it doesn’t function well but it still controls the country.
  
  Failed Government to me implies the same as Failed State (i.e. Somalia). But maybe I’m just being to insistent on what may be an improper interpretation of the phrase by me.
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  DentontheinsideMalcire
  6/01/16 1:14pm
  I mean, pretty much every official is currently being impeached or shortly getting impeached. I really think the only thing holding back the eventual revolution at this point is that the Government hasn’t burned every bridge with the cartels who actually control the country.
  
  Once those are gone, then I suppose we will be looking at a truly “failed” government, but for now your interpretation works to, on Life Support is how i would view it i guess.
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yousayclamato, joeShannon Sims
6/01/16 12:06pm
Excellent article, very well written and clearly well researched. I do wonder if it underplays the role of Catholicism in what is by all accounts a highly misogynistic culture.

Which is not to suggest that U.S. culture is not misogynistic. It quite obviously is.
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  Das, evil rabbit and obnoxious (half)germanyousayclamato, joe
  6/01/16 12:38pm
  Catholicism is a far too conservative influence in Brazil for sure, but the evangelical churches having been gaining quite a bit of power, and several of the politicians mentioned belong to those groups and not the RCC.
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  yousayclamato, joeDas, evil rabbit and obnoxious (half)german
  6/01/16 12:51pm
  Fair point, but the Catholic Church has a much deeper legacy there (and elsewhere in the region).
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Eve WhiteShannon Sims
6/01/16 11:48am
This is fascinating and some much needed further context for the protests around the sexual assault case.

Because there is still a lot of confusion around Zika, I’m going to nit pick a bit here on this inaccurate part:

currently battling the spread of the Zika virus, which is believed to be linked to microcephaly.

It is linked and the CDC recently declared that research found it to be causative. This is a case where the medical community at large is no longer waffling around on whether it’s definitively a bad thing anymore.
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  Jan74Eve White
  6/01/16 8:43pm
  Yes. At this point, it is proven to be linked to microcephaly, and believed to be linked to Guillain-Barré, which hasn’t been proven conclusively yet.
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