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The online mobilization against Jair Bolsonaro, Julien Blanc and the rape culture

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Vincent
AutorMichael Freitas Mohallem
Páginas188-190

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See note 79

In March 2014, the world was surprised by the results of the research "Social tolerance to violence against women" by the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA), which indicated that Brazil is a country that tolerates violence against women. More than 65% of men had agreed that "women who wear clothes that show the body deserve to be attacked". The results provoked strong reaction in social networks and thousands of women left the image of their nakedness convey the message that "they do not deserve to be raped".

The online campaign, started by journalist Nana Queiroz on her Facebook proile, had 40,000 likes and was followed by a review of the research conducted by IPEA. Although errors were found in the tabulation of the results and a less shocking conclusion was published, the new data that one in every four Brazilians is tolerant to abuse against women has not diminished the feeling that this is still an obscure feature of most men in the country.

What could have been an isolated moment of feminism in the spotlight has remained a living and active feeling in social networks. One of the signatures of the demonstrations is its objectivity: the end of rape culture may depend on cultural change at a deeper level and, therefore, time

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consuming, but what people are looking for through the recent online actions are immediate results, able to signal the change in the tolerance degree with misogynistic, and sometimes criminal, statements.

That’s what it was possible to detect last November when a group launched an online petition asking the Brazilian government to deny Julien Blanc his visa request to enter the country. The "Hitch artist" sold lectures on how to become a womanizer, but his videos available on the Internet made people sick to their stomach by the humiliating way the girls were treated. Blanc speaks to the camera, laughs, uses physical force to abuse women, as if they were also spectators of his actions. What they thought about it did not mattermuch to the guy. They are objects of his "business".

The campaign touched thousands of people, caught the attention of the press and caused the Secretariat of Women Policies (SPM) to position itself publicly on the matter. Rather than simply condemning Blanc’s action, the SPM ratiied the claim and began to pressure the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to prevent Blanc from entering Brazil. In only four days, the petition reached 350,000 subscribers...

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