So, in Brazilian women's rights news, a prosecutor has defended a "sexual obligation" in marriages and said feminism is a mental illness.
Anderson Vagner Gois dos Santos's statements were in a text titled "Feministos & Feministas" (a mock word for male feminists and the normal word for feminists that usually feminine) forwarded in an e-mail list that includes members of the Federal Public Ministry (MPF), where he works, across the country.
“The feminist is usually a girl who had problems with her parents in the process of upbringing and carries a lot of hurt in her heart. She is normally a teenager in a woman's body. She is unaware of quality literature and has absorbed her knowledge through television and more recently through the internet.”, wrote Anderson Santos last Monday (July 18th, 2022). “Most of the time, her quest for empowerment is actually an attempt to overcome deep setbacks and unpleasantness with the male sex generated by her own choices of marital partners. Many are actually ashamed of the female condition. I believe that some time from now there should be an International Classification of Diseases (ICD) category for this mental disorder.”
“Progressivism has convinced us that the spouse has no sexual obligation to their partner, leading many to unnecessary cheating, pornography consumption, and divorce.”, Santos further wrote in a second message. “This is a drama experienced much more by men in the face of feminists or false conservatives. The wife who does not fulfill the marital debt must have a good explanation under penalty of dissolution of the union and loss of all patrimonial benefits.”, he defended.
He claimed that it is “of fundamental importance to recover the idea of conjugal debt in marriage” and made a biblical quote. “The husband pays to his wife what he owes her, and in the same way the wife to her husband.”, he wrote, quoting the book of Corinthians.
The messages provoked a reaction among prosecutors, especially female one, who defend the investigation of the case by the body's internal affairs department. For some members of the MPF, the thesis defended by the prosecutor Anderson Santos would legitimize "marital rape".
The Internal Affairs Office of the Federal Public Ministry published this Friday (July 22nd, 2022) an ordinance that institutes, in addition to an administrative inquiry, a commission to analyze Santos's conduct within 30 days.
The ordinance is signed by the Federal Prosecutor General of the MPF, Célia Regina Souza Delgado, and determines that the Deputy Attorney General of the Republic Denise Vinci Túlio, the Regional Attorney of the Republic Mônica Campos de Ré, and the Attorney of the Republic Edmar Gomes Machado must compose the Commission of Administrative Inquiry.
In his defense, Santos said to local media:
“It is not a case of requiring and demanding that women have sex. It is giving occasion, if repeated (the lack of sex), to the request for divorce. They actually think that I'm advocating rape of women. Of course, if I defended it, it would be an incitement to crime, more than a breach of decorum, it would be a case of public criminal action."
The prosecutor said that this discussion arose in the face of court decisions that still take into account the lack of sex to annul marriages. He said that the messages were sent to generate debate about monogamy and the criminalization of adultery among colleagues and that he didn't mean to offend anyone.
"The conversation was much longer and I pointed out that progressives really don't want to get married, because they don't want to take on the responsibilities of a marriage, such as monogamy and marital debt. So, they began to de-characterize the marriage so that they could have married status without the due burden. This caused a lot of anger.”
To other journalists, he said that he reiterated the content of the messages posted and that he is neither pro-president Bolsonaro nor pro-left-wing opposition Workers' Party. "What I perceive today in Brazil, within the institutions, is a large left-wing apparatus, which makes it enormously difficult for any government that does not agree with a series of agendas, among which the feminist, LGBT, racialist agenda, the extreme environmentalist agenda, which, in the end, prevents us from developing economically, and this causes a lot of discomfort." According to the prosecutor, the messages of repudiation of feminism are part of this "greater context". "I am demonstrating that there is a wing of our body, which, due to adherence to this agenda, does not accept that a conservative government is established."
Now that the case is under investigation, the MPF committee in charge must analyze within 30 days the functional responsibility of Anderson Gois in facts that, according to the official letter, violate articles of the Constitution, such as the one that provides for the defense of collective and individual interests by the Public Ministry, and article 5, which provides that everyone is equal before the law, without distinction of any kind. If found guilty, the prosecutor may face admonition, suspension, or even loss of public office.
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