Does Moro learn machismo at the school of his boss, Bolsonaro? | Opinion

I have seen published, perhaps more and with more emphasis abroad than in Brazil, the motivations that exegete Sérgio Moro, today Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. Jair Bolsonaro's far-right government Justice has justified justifying the growing number of femicides in Brazil. A few days ago, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the law María de la Penha, which fought against gender-based violence, Moro said: "Maybe we men are intimidated by the growing power of women in our society. Therefore, some of us unfortunately resort to physical or moral violence to badert an alleged superiority that does not exist. Shortly after, in the networks, he wrote: "The world has changed. We have a lot to learn. The minister does not say it, but the son, the husband and the father of strong women. "

Then anthropologist Debora Diniz, who moved to the United States after receiving death threats because of her role in defending women and her right to decide her body and baduality, wrote: " Minister Moro, for S please disable this message. It is a question of dignity. Men who threaten women are just cowards.

There are those who have ironized the idea that Moro of gender-based violence, according to which it is because women have gained greater power in modern society and threatens men, does not seem to be waving at the famous Harvard University where she was created, but in the new school of her boss, President Bolsonaro. It is he, a misogynist, who came to tell MP Maria del Rosario that he just did not stupid because she was ugly and did not deserve it, and that she had offended her little girl by admitting that it was an oversight because he would have preferred another male child. That would have been the room.

It seems that Moro suddenly forgot that he lived in the country that ranks fifth, on a list of 84 countries, because of his high rate of femicides: every day, there are on average 13 murders of women in Brazil, according to BBC data. Moro may not know that three-quarters of the crimes committed by machismo belong to black, low-income women. Will they also intimidate men for the consciousness that they suddenly gained from their power in society?

Could it be that Moro's experience as a son, husband and father, led him to be afraid of strong women as he qualifies them? Yes, the vast majority of women sacrificed today on the altar of the most primitive machisms are strong women, it is true, but with the strength of the harsh experience of poverty and being condemned for the color of their skin, like a scum. They are conscious not of their power, but of their birth, reciting the old patriarchal codes still in force in Brazil, only to give pleasure to the man and to the children. This inner strength of the black and poor woman is not what, according to Moro, intimidates men who kill their partners. They kill them because they ultimately feel stronger than they are, protected under the cloak of impunity.

Some Church figures, such as St. Thomas Aquinas, make one of the doubts about the fact that a woman has a soul and is only an object in the hands of men. Already since Adam and Eve, in the myth of creation, more than 3,000 years ago, it seems clear that the culprit of all evils has always been and remains the woman. In heaven, questioned by God about the sin of eating the forbidden fruit, Adam blamed Eve: "The woman you gave me in the company of my mate gave me and that I I have eaten "(Gen.3,11ss).

It would have been better if the mythical judge Moro, who did not shake his hand when he took to prison hundreds of characters from the world of politics and business, starting with the old and charismatic , beloved and popular former president, Lula da Silva, He landed at the extremist government of Bolsonaro to bring a new wind of democracy and modernity, instead of appearing as a disciple applied to the school of the obscurantism, machismo and contempt of women and their best values.

While it is true that Moro scrutinizes the political horizons that would be solved during the elections, we must not forget that the majority of the millions of voters in Brazil are women. And I do not think the women liked the minister's anti-feminist shift, which minimized the suffering of thousands of femicide victims. Not because they already feel liberated and empowered and that they impose intimidation and fear on men, but because they remain the spearhead of power that the man still exercises.

It's sad

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