{"id":10102,"date":"2018-06-25T22:08:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T22:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/?p=10102"},"modified":"2018-06-25T22:08:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T22:08:03","slug":"heavy-defeat-of-male-chauvinism-and-violence-against-women-in-russias-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/heavy-defeat-of-male-chauvinism-and-violence-against-women-in-russias-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy-defeat of male-chauvinism and violence against women in Russia\u2019s World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the last days, the attitude of a group of Brazilian fans in the World Cup in Russia generated a major revolt and won international repercussion. On several videos circulating on the internet, a group of men, dressed in a Brazilian shirt, surround a young lady that clearly does not speak Portuguese, singing and yelling male-chauvinist and misogynous phrases, with offenses to her body. To worsen things, they make her repeat the phrase, taking advantage of the fact that she does not understand the language, to ridicule and shame her.<\/em>
\nBy Erika Andreassy, from the\u00a0PSTU Women\u2019s Secretariat.<\/strong>
\n 
\nThe images are strong, offensive, and make one more chapter of the male-chauvinist drama and violence against women, field in which Brazil is a champion. Among the phrases, we can hear \u201cshe is really pinky,\u201d \u201cOh, what a delight,\u201d[1]<\/a> and \u201cpinky p**ssy\u201d. It is disgusting and repellent.
\nSo far, 4 men have been identified. One of them is a lawyer from Pernambuco, Diego Valen\u00e7a Jatob\u00e1, former Secretary of Tourism from Ipojuca (PE,) tried for administrative improbity<\/em> while in office, in 2012. Diego is also convicted in a cause for alimony, currently in the Justice and with a debt of over 37 thousand reales.
\nAnother man involved is the civil engineer and former member of the Engineering and Agronomy Regional Council of Piau\u00ed, Luciano Gil Mendes Coelho, who was also Secretary of Health and Education in Picos (PI), and just like Diego, he also has a file. In 2015, Luciano was arrested in the operation Paradise, by the Federal Police, accused of deviating public money from the City Council of Araripina (PE), where we worked as an engineer.
\nThe Santa Catarina Military Police Lieutenant Eduardo Nunes, acting in the city of Lages (SC) was also recognized, as well as Felipe Wilson, Latam worker in Guarulhos (SP).
\nLuciano tried to minimize the situation. In an interview via Whats App for the agency The Intercept Brasil<\/em>, he avoided to take responsibility and chose the easiest apology: alcohol. As if this was not enough, he blamed the press: \u201cWe are parents, workers, and you are destroying our lives… you are making a storm from a raindrop<\/em>,\u201d he said to UOL. The engineer also declared that he is \u201cupset\u201d with the repercussion of these images. On the humiliation, aggression and violence committed against the young lady, not a word.
\nSadly, this is not an isolated case. After the disgusting video, others emerged in the social media, showing fans (from Brazil and other countries) harassing women with sexual-like \u201cgames\u201d. In all cases, men take advantage of the fact that those women do not speak the language to make sexist comments. This is a picture of how the male-chauvinist culture still prevails in our society.
\nIt is not by chance that, in the world, 1 of 3 women have already suffered physical or sexual violence, and that every 10 minutes a woman is killed (according to the UN). This is the result of a male-chauvinist ideology, that considers women as inferior and property of men. This ideology is fed and stimulated by capitalism, that uses male-chauvinism and oppression against women to divide the working class and over-exploit it, increasing their profits. Imperialism and capitalism campaigns against male-chauvinism are nothing but a huge fraud.
\nIt is worth to remember that Brazil is the 5th country in the ranking of violence against women. A woman is beaten every 7 seconds, and every 2 hours a Brazilian woman is killed by male-chauvinist violence. Not to mention rapes, harassment, sexual tourism, among other types of violence \u2013 of which black women are the main victims. The men involved in the video make part of those who feature and increase those alarming numbers.
\nSeveral entities wrote repudiation notes, including the State of Pernambuco Bar Association of Brazil (OAB-PE), which decided to investigate the behavior of Diego Jatob\u00e1 through the Committee of Lawyer Women. The latest escalated the denounce to the Ethics and Discipline Court of the Bar. Santa Catarina\u2019s PM also informed that it will open a disciplinary administrative process against Lieutenant Eduardo Nunes.
\nIt is worth to mention that male-chauvinism and misogyny denounces are frequent, inside and outside the police offices in Brazil. It is no news that police officers disrespect women when they carry out operations in the periphery, treating those women as prostitutes or \u201chobo mothers,\u201d especially when they are black. There are many cases of women treated as guilty when they get to the Police Station to denounce a case of violence, by the people that are supposed to be there to help them.
\nAlso, an investigation carried out in 2015 by the Brazilian Forum for Public Security and by the Department of Organizations and People Studies of the School of Business Administration of Sao Paulo, part of the Get\u00falio Vargas Foundation revealed that 40% of women acting in Police institutions in Brazil already suffered harassment. Despite that, most denounces end up filed.
\nThe aerial company Latam, whose historic of denounces for racism is highly known, announced the demission of the employee that appears in the video. The Brazilian government, despite receiving countless emails, registered by the Brazilian Ambassador in Russia, criticizing the behavior of the fans involved, made no specific comment about it and waits for a formal denounce to take a stand.
\nThe PSTU vehemently repudiates the male-chauvinist behavior practiced against women, not only during the Cup but in any situation, be it by Brazilian men or any other nationality. Nothing justifies such attitudes. It is not \u201ca game\u201d, this is aggression. In the specific case of the videos with Brazilian men involved, we defend all of them to be identified and punished, independently of a formal denounce by the women that suffered harassment. Among other things, because is highly unlikely that those women, which are bot Brazilian and do not even speak Portuguese, to come to Brazil to make a denounce. Also, the fact of publishing this type of videos online is already considered a virtual crime.
\nThus, we say, enough violence and male-chauvinism! Exemplary punishment to the aggressors!<\/strong>
\n***
\n[1]<\/a> In reference to a song that is considered highly sexist, \u201cDelicia, assim voc\u00ea me mata… ai, se eu te pego<\/em>.\u201d [Delight, you kill me… oh, if I get you.\u201d]. T.N.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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