Another controversy of the Bolsonaro Women's Minister: "Girls are raped for walking without panties"

BRAZIL.- This is not the first time that the Brazilian Minister of Women, Family and Human Rights has been criticized for her controversial remarks. Evangelical pastor Damares Alves said on this occasion that the
Girls from an Amazonian region are victims of stupid because they do not usually work with underwear.

"Specialists told us that the girls there had been raped because they did not have calzones and that they were not wearing calzones because they were poor", said Alves during an official act.

So the official referred to the
high rate of badual abuse of minors in the islands of the Tapajós Archipelagoin the Amazonian state of Pará, one of the regions of Brazil where the percentage of indigenous population is highest.

The Portfolio Manager Family, Women and Human Rights launched the program "Abrace a Tapajós" in Brasilia with a series of initiatives to mitigate badual violence.

"We will fight crime by raising awareness" of the population and by "stimulating the installation of facilities and companies that sell these clothes [calzones]"disclose its use," said Alves at the act.

He said that
in Tapajós, it is common for girls to be delivered in exchange for food or diesel to supply their boats. "

Damares Alves announced that the government will encourage the creation of microenterprises to increase "family income".

Other controversial sentences

"In my Christian conception,
the woman, yes, in the marriage, must be subject to the man and it is a question of faith", said last April the head of government of Jair Bolsonaro to the Commission for the Defense of Women's Rights of the Chamber of Deputies.

Damares Alves explained that "in Christian doctrine, within the Church", it is understood that in marriage, "the man is the leader".

"It does not mean that all women have to be submissive and have to bow their heads in front of the boss, the aggressor and the men who are there," he added. However, he quickly became the target of criticism in social networks.

Pastor Alves had already unleashed controversy in Brazil. At the beginning of the year, she had barely taken office.
he celebrated in a video the beginning of a "new era" in the country, in which
"the boy is wearing blue and the girl is pink".

Lawyer, pastor of an evangelical church and opposed to abortion, Alves said in his official speech that "the state is secular, but that minister is terribly Christian".

"
In this government, the girl will be princess and the boy will be prince. No one will prevent us from calling princess girls and boy princes. We will put an end to the abuse of ideological indoctrination, "he said in his speech.

Although the sentence is old, in 2015, even though he might not even think of becoming one of the prominent figures of the Brazilian government of Jair Bolsonaro, Damares Alves took the microphone and held several controversial statements before a large audience.

In
badault against women who declare themselves feminists, the current Minister of Women, Family and Human Rights has launched: "Do you know why men do not like them (feminists)?"
Because they are ugly and we are cute. "

ANSA Agency