Girls will be princesses
The new Minister of Women, the Family and Human Rights, pastor Damares Alves, created more controversy by saying that “a new era has started in Brazil” and that “boys wear blue and girls wear pink.” The remarks were caught on a video that also shows her chanting the sentence and being applauded.
On Wednesday (2nd), she was sworn in, among cries from the audience of “Hallelujah” and “Praise the Lord,” she made an emotional speech saying there there will be no more “ideological indoctrination” of children and teenagers, and that “girls will be princesses and boys will be princes,” and criticized unnamed media outlets.
Meaning, boys will be dominant and girls will be submissive. Yay?
Alves, known for her religious fervor, extolled her faith more than once during her swearing-in. “The State is secular, but this minister is extremely Christian, and because of that, she believes in God’s design,” she said.
Yes, and that’s the problem: believing in “God’s design” means making your own prejudices and worship of conservative tradition something designed by your friend Mister God, and that makes everything you do sacred and unchallengeable.
H/t soogeeoh at Miscellany Room
Correct me if I’m wrong, or just misunderstand English, but don’t the two parts of this sentence contradict each other? Isn’t it “ideological indoctrination” to state that “girls will be princesses and boys will be princes”?
Oh, wait, God. I forgot. God is good, secularism is bad, and women (girls) have no role to play outside of making boys happy. I forgot. I’ll show myself out, with my head suitably bowed and my eyes cast down to avoid tempting any of the men in here toward sin.
@iknklast #1 – yeah, that was the part that really stood out to me too. Partly because the irony meter on my desk suddenly exploded with the force of a small hand grenade. I really ought to remember to turn that thing off when I’m not actively using it…