“boys dressed in blue, girls in pink”: this Statement, Brazil’s new Minister for women, families, and human rights, Damares Alves has triggered in the social networks of a flood of indignant and humorous reactions.
In a Video that spread on Friday rapidly on the Internet, is to see the Minister to, as she says on the verge of its inauguration, enthusiastically: “attention, attention. It is a new Era in Brazil: The boys dressed in blue and girls in pink”.
in response, numerous celebrities photos women in blue and men in pink posing published. Many users responded with a sense of Humor, a woman asked, referring to the blue smurf girl: “And smurfette? I was lied to my whole life?” On Facebook a group on Sunday called for a Demonstration on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, to come to the “women in Blue, men in Pink” or any other color. Under the Hashtag #CorNaoTemGenero (“color has no sex”) related to the Twitter user position.
Alves is one of only two women in the 22-member Cabinet of the radical right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro for his women and anti – gay stance known. On the criticism she replied, her exclamation is “a metaphor against the gender theory”, which is rejected by President Bolsonaro.
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“boys and girls can dress in blue, in pink, of all colors, so like you said feel most comfortable,” she said. Alves is an ultra-conservative lawyer, and Evangelical pastor and as sharp abortion opponent and feminism critic known. (AFP)
