Enough with Catcalling

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Were the cities made for women? While the #MeToo Movement united sexual harassment victims throughout the world, this crucial documentary goes beyond and explicitly illustrates how the participation of women in open urban spaces is marked by insecurity. The film explores the public space as a place of violence—especially sexual harassment—and analyzes how campaigns promoted by activists and feminists have changed power relationships between men and women in the streets and on the Internet in Brazil.

Enough With Catcalling follows Raquel, Rosa, and Teresa, in three different Brazilian cities, who share with us their experiences with catcalling. The film also includes insightful footage from hidden cameras worn by women in their day to day life, as well as eye-opening conversations between specialists and men about harassment, body image, and masculinity.

"We are instantly thrust into the skin-crawling sense of fear that many women feel walking through the streets alone at night." — Jezebel

"Street harassment 'represents the objectification of women, the hyper-sexualization of women, the lack of autonomy that women have over our own bodies, and the idea that a woman is not a public being." — Juliana de Faria, Founder, Think Olga

"The film shows how we are systematically excluded from the debate about city. The characters in the film have this in common: no one feels at ease in the public space. Neither of them feels safe or belonging to the city. In addition to this complaint, I see the documentary as an educational project - the idea is to transform it into a tool with universities and schools so that we can think together about a change." — Juliana de Faria, Founder, Think Olga

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Kamanchek, Amanda (film director)
Kamanchek, Amanda (film producer)
Frazão, Fernanda (film director)
Frazão, Fernanda (film producer)
Biau, Camila (film producer)
Kakuda, Lucas (film producer)
Lemes, Juliana (film producer)

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Cinematography, Lucas Kakuda; editor, Cibele Appes.

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1219 people collectively financed
the production of this film.

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To all of you, thank you very much!

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September 13, 2017.
Yellow line, Paulista\'s subway station.

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That night coming back from work,
crowded train

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I felt something warm in my pants.

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When I looked back I saw a guy
with his zipper open.

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I started arguing with him,
hitting him on the face

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while he was trying to zip up his pants
but I wouldn\'t let him.

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I screamed like crazy.

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In the hope that someone
would not let him go

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and prevent him to close his pants

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but no one helped.

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São Paulo, August 28, 2017,
Maceió Street.

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I was coming back home by Uber,
very drunk

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and when the driver realize
he could take advantage from the situation

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by the time I was stepping out of the car
he pushed me, I fell

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he came to help me to get up
and fingered my pussy.

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São Cristóvão Avenue,
Lauro de Freitas, Bahia.

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I was walking down the street,
two guys called me

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I thought they want information.

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When I turn around they called me
\"delicious babe\".

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I was embarrassed and without words
to respond back.

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March 26, 2014.
2231 Ramiro Barcelo Street, Porto Alegre.

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I was walking down an avenue

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and there was a group of guys
right ahead of me

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and when I was passing by them,
one of the guys cat called me

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saying that
I was an ugly skinny girl

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but if I gave him chance
he would stick his dick on me.

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I was biking on the street
and a motorcycle driver passed by my side

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he was faster than me
and slapped my ass.

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I even lost balance at that moment ,
and I couldn’t understand what had happened.

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When I was able to look ahead

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I saw that there were two men
on the motorcycle

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and I realized they had done that
on purpose.

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The one sitting on the back
was even making gestures at me.

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When I was in the bus,
a man started to ask me questions, like:

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\"Do you have a fiance?
Are you going home?\"

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When I got off the bus,
he got off too...

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I was walking, a car passed by

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and they yelled
“yummy chunky lady” at me.

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I was walking down the street
with my head down, distracted

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two guys passed by me and said
\"what\'s up, bitch\".

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A man stopped me
in the park Largo do Machado

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and told me that he wanted to lick me
all over my body, surreal.

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September 22, 2015...

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...when the man touched my ass...

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...and I was so angry...

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[mixed voices]

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- Hi pretty.

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- What? Are you talking to me?
Did you talk to me?

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- Hi?
- What did you say?

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- I said “hi pretty”.

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- Do you always say hi to the girls on the street?
- Huh?

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- Do you always say hi to the ladies on the street?

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- No, only sometimes... only if shes’s pretty.

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- When you think she’s pretty, that’s what you mean?
- Yes.

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- Don’t you think this is harassment?

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ENOUGH WITH CATCALLING

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In most of the tunnels, right?
Because they have no light...

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rape and sexual harassment cases
happen very often.

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The truth is that I don’t know if I’m afraid of
walking along a deserted street

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where I can’t see anyone

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or if I’m afraid of finding someone along the way,
you know?

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I’m afraid of being hurt,
I’m afraid of being raped.

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I’ve walked down this hill
many times before.

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I\'m really afraid of this hill.

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It’s so deserted,
there\'re bushes everywhere

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and I\'d constantly be wondering if there was
someone hiding in the bushes

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to grab me and pull me down
to the bushes, you know?

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Well, I walk pass here after class,
I leave at ten-thirty

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sometimes I have to walk this way,
to go up the L2 street

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which has more options
to take the bus until midnight.

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I end up taking a short cut in the scrubland,
otherwise we have to go all the way around

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because the city
wasn\'t built for pedestrians.

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It has become my reality
that I\'m already familiar with

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it’s something that I have to face everyday
if I want to graduate

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I\'m conscious that what I\'m doing
is a resistance act.

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If you can’t afford having a car, you have to adapt
yourself to the place you live in.

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And I think this way of living is determined
by the structure and architecture of the city

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that doesn\'t cooperate
with those without a car.

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Almost every night
when I’m walking down a dark street

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there’s a guy behind me.

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The simple fact that it’s a man,
it is already a chance for violence.

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He knows, I think he knows,
that he\'s not going to rape me...

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but I, I don’t know that.

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My name is Rosa Luz,
I’m 22 years old, I’m an artist.

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I was born in Gama
that is a satellite city of Brasília

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a small town,
ten minutes away from Goiás.

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Things here are near from each other,
there’s more space...

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I can walk through alleys and streets
and get to places that I want to faster.

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My transition process and opening myself
to everybody about who I was

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went very natural.

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For seventeen years I had identity conflicts,
I was confused

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I couldn’t express myself to anyone

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I wanted to play with dolls
and I was repressed

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I wanted to wear a scarf and dance
and people would laugh.

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When I was 17 years old
things started to change

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because I started to have more time
for myself

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to think about who I was...

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and I started my artistic projects
at the university.

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I was selected to travel abroad
in England and study Arts

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and there, in England, it was the first time
that someone asked me

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how I would like to be called.

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How do I want to be called?
”She”.

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Then when I looked at myself
in the mirror

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I was already this woman,
like this.

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One of the most interesting things
in this whole transition process

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is that before I would always feel like a woman
and I was one

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but society wouldn\'t see me me like that.
Society would see me as a man.

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Why?

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Because of the accessories
that I would wear

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because of behavior standards
and those gender roles.

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After my transition, everything changed, right?
Society started seeing me in a different way.

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I started to feel way
more insecure on the streets

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I started to feel like an object,
harassed

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everyday I would hear the car
honking at me.

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Because when I was seen as a man...

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I had the privilege of walking on the streets
without the possibility of any violence.

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Even though society sees you
as a feminine gay man, for example

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you are still a man,
you still have your privileges

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in a society that is sexist (male chauvinist)
and patriarchal.

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My name is Raquel Gomes dos Santos.

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I’m 29 years old,
I’m from Itaparica, Bahia.

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Nowadays I live in Salvador.

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I work as manicurist
and I study nursing

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which is a dream
that I’m accomplishing.

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I used to be way heavier
than I am now

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and I had to lose a lot of
weight in order to go to college

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because I was ashamed
of going out of the house.

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Because in the bus
I wouldn\'t pass through the turnstiles

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and the drivers
would make me feel embarrassed

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without letting me use
the back door.

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I did lose weight, yes!

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So then I could study,
because it wasn’t easy

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but...

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I don’t care that people might look,
that they think I’m fat - I feel good.

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I don\'t need to follow
any society standards.

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I always try to be in places
with lots of people

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and go out at the same time
people are going to work

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and come back home at the time
they finish work, you know?

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When we go to a party where there are many
people, we stay at the party and we enjoy it

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but when we see that people are leaving...
you know what I mean?

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I am Teresa Chaves,
I\'m a History teacher...

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I’m 33 years old
and I live in São Paulo.

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I chose cycling
as way of transportation.

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People often ask me
if I’m not afraid of biking, but yes...

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I am very much afraid.
I’m afraid of the cars, the pedestrians...

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I’m afraid of robbery.

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I’m lucky that I can commute
taking the bike lane all the way

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from my home to work.

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But I don’t limit myself
if I can’t take the bike lanes

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I have to be able to go around
the way I want to

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and anywhere I want to go.

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Sometimes I have the feeling that
when the woman rides a bike

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she becomes more fragile

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and the harassment problem
is bigger than when she’s walking.

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A woman on a bike, it’s already something
that attracts attention

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and there aren’t many women biking.

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Do I think the cities
are structured for women?

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No, and it’s not even about
what I think.

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When I study the history
behind the city\'s establishment

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and the Industrial Revolution, it’s clear
that the cities aren’t structured for women.

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They aren’t made for us,
to start with.

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Since the beginning of times,
women have circulated in the city.

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They’ve always worked really hard,
they were maids, cooks, prostitutes.

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Before industrialization
and urban growth

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the definition of public and private
was different.

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so now with the redesign of the cities,
this also brings a change

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in the human perspective,
in the ways of living and habits.

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Women started to circulate more
in public spaces as industrial workers.

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Usually, when you talk about proletariat,
you think about men, right?

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We should start thinking
about the women

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that were 50% of the work force
since the beginning of times.

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A woman’s body is not the same
as a man’s body.

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Women’s bodies
were made for the house duties

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women weren’t designed
to be walking around the city.

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There’s menstruation,
they have body fluids

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they have “this and that”

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they are delicate,
they cry for nothing...

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They must be guided by men
because they are irrational.

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So this is the scenario

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the historical context at this time
is very contradictory

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because there is urbanization,
the growth of cities

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the emergence of coffee shops,
restaurants, brothels, whorehouses...

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theaters, movie theaters...
social life expands.

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and at this moment
it circulates the idea

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that the woman’s place
is at home.

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Feminism was born in this context,
because women said out loud:

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“No! No! I have the right to be a part
of the city”.

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Freedom is different for men
than it is for women.

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Men can go out in public
without a shirt

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they can play soccer
wearing just a thong.

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Woman can’t even work out
with a small shorts

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because people will be looking
at her body the whole time.

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When you look around this place

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there are many groups of guys
sitting together

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and some guys are alone.

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There’s not even one woman
sitting by herself.

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There’s not even one
group of women.

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There’s something about the way
public space is occupied

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that it was taught to us:
boys play soccer outside

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girls play with dolls [inside].

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The private space
is a woman’s domain

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while the public space
is a man’s domain.

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No matter if we fight against this

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and no matter if the women have occupied
more the public space

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we can’t assure that we are
in an equal society

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or even say that the public space
is more feminine

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or even say that the public space
is more feminine
and occupied by both genders.

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and occupied by both genders.

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I\'m disgusted by man
who sticks his tongue out...

00:17:39.593 --> 00:17:41.510
that keeps calling me “hottie”,
things like that.

00:17:41.510 --> 00:17:43.760
I’m disgusted by anyone
like that.

00:17:50.926 --> 00:17:52.260
Think it’s common,
think it’s normal...

00:17:52.260 --> 00:17:54.677
I will never think it’s normal,
I will never think it’s common.

00:17:54.719 --> 00:17:56.302
And I will never take this
for granted

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because to me
this is a form of aggression.

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Many times I think that guys
don’t really want to get to know me

00:18:00.177 --> 00:18:02.761
they just want to “show off” themselves
and reaffirm their masculinity

00:18:02.761 --> 00:18:05.927
just to be seen by their friends...
you know?

00:18:07.261 --> 00:18:08.927
The woman is exposed
to many types of violence

00:18:08.927 --> 00:18:10.553
and one of those
is the psychological one

00:18:10.553 --> 00:18:13.262
where she ends up thinking
she needs to hear a catcall

00:18:13.262 --> 00:18:14.678
to feel herself desired.

00:18:14.678 --> 00:18:17.803
Many times, she doesn’t even like it,
but she doesn’t know

00:18:17.803 --> 00:18:20.553
she doesn’t think that it’s violence,
so it just goes unnoticed.

00:18:20.553 --> 00:18:24.095
Violence passed through me
all my life unnoticed.

00:18:34.304 --> 00:18:38.971
A black woman\'s body has been
highly sexualized and seen as an object

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since the colonial times

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like if people could harass us
all the time.

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And society teaches us that
we don’t haveto see this situation as a problem

00:18:47.639 --> 00:18:51.805
that it is okay to be
walking down the street and be harassed.

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Since the times of slavery
when black women were raped

00:19:00.681 --> 00:19:04.348
and “used” to have sex
with the sons of the lords

00:19:04.348 --> 00:19:05.848
to initiate the boys sexual life...

00:19:05.848 --> 00:19:11.765
from there was created the myth
that black women were naturally sexual

00:19:11.765 --> 00:19:14.516
or that they were
really good in bed...

00:19:14.516 --> 00:19:17.391
a history of violence that would mistakenly
be shown as romantic.

00:19:20.807 --> 00:19:22.724
Characters like “Globeleza”
[Carnaval black muse]

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that only pop up naked
during the Carnaval

00:19:25.224 --> 00:19:27.517
just leaves us the feeling
that this type of space

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is the only one for black women.

00:19:29.308 --> 00:19:32.475
You can see characters in soap operas
where the black woman

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is always the “sexy samba lady”,
or “the maid”.

00:19:36.142 --> 00:19:38.892
So those character constructions,
those stereotypes

00:19:38.892 --> 00:19:41.392
that were created
about black woman contribute

00:19:41.392 --> 00:19:45.518
to why those women are treated
in a very inhumane manner.

00:19:47.268 --> 00:19:49.643
Racism,
together with sexism

00:19:49.643 --> 00:19:53.101
makes it impossible for us
to transcend situations like that

00:19:53.101 --> 00:19:54.601
they block our social mobility

00:19:54.601 --> 00:19:58.268
and prevent us from being seen as a person,
as someone.

00:20:17.728 --> 00:20:20.853
But at the same time, black woman
means resistance.

00:20:20.853 --> 00:20:23.645
From our perspective
as black woman

00:20:23.645 --> 00:20:28.436
women that for so long were excluded
from their own political movements

00:20:28.436 --> 00:20:30.354
where they were fighting
for their rights...

00:20:30.354 --> 00:20:36.687
we have to think in ways that we can
contemplate ourselves.

00:20:36.687 --> 00:20:39.187
So when we think
in intersectionality

00:20:39.187 --> 00:20:42.479
which is a concept created
by black women

00:20:42.479 --> 00:20:45.271
we should think how the oppressions
tangle between each other

00:20:45.271 --> 00:20:47.855
they act together,
and there’s no way for us

00:20:47.855 --> 00:20:50.105
to point out which one
is more important.

00:21:06.939 --> 00:21:10.939
The inequality of power
between men and women

00:21:10.939 --> 00:21:14.064
is in the origin of our society.

00:21:14.064 --> 00:21:18.440
And this structural inequality,
in Brazil

00:21:18.440 --> 00:21:25.399
creates a tricky mix, together with
racial and ethnic inequality.

00:21:48.359 --> 00:21:51.567
Women are always subject
to many standards.

00:21:51.567 --> 00:21:54.776
Woman is not supposed to sit down
without watching her legs...

00:21:54.817 --> 00:21:57.401
woman can’t make
many gestures.

00:21:57.401 --> 00:21:59.776
Obviously she can’t take off her shirt
while in the middle of the street

00:21:59.776 --> 00:22:01.026
like a man would do

00:22:01.026 --> 00:22:03.067
and she can’t many other things

00:22:03.067 --> 00:22:06.735
especially because women
were considered irrational

00:22:06.735 --> 00:22:09.360
and remember that women
were not allowed to vote before.

00:22:12.818 --> 00:22:14.527
I like to wear short clothes,
you know?

00:22:14.527 --> 00:22:17.235
I just go out like a whore,
I think a short outfit always brings

00:22:17.235 --> 00:22:19.236
this type of stereotype, right?

00:22:19.236 --> 00:22:22.111
That you are a whore and
that your body is for sale.

00:22:22.153 --> 00:22:24.611
That people can touch you
because your body is showing.

00:22:24.611 --> 00:22:26.778
I think that clothing ends up being
something very important

00:22:26.778 --> 00:22:28.444
because is the way the society
sees you, right?

00:22:28.444 --> 00:22:30.611
It also reflects your identity
in a certain way.

00:22:30.653 --> 00:22:37.195
I’ve never stopped wearing what I like
because it’s part of my identity.

00:22:37.695 --> 00:22:41.070
If I would care for what society
thinks about my clothes

00:22:41.070 --> 00:22:44.029
I wouldn’t be who I am,
for example.

00:22:44.029 --> 00:22:45.862
Even though it can be
dangerous sometimes

00:22:45.862 --> 00:22:49.612
if I’m wearing short outfit at night,
if this is what I like to wear

00:22:49.612 --> 00:22:51.363
this is the way
that it should be.

00:22:59.905 --> 00:23:01.821
What makes me
give up sometimes...

00:23:01.821 --> 00:23:07.114
is that outfit that I had in mind
for that day might make me feel like

00:23:07.114 --> 00:23:11.281
“I’m not going to feel good wearing it,
and face certain things

00:23:11.281 --> 00:23:13.281
that I might hear
if I would dressed like that”.

00:23:13.281 --> 00:23:14.531
So then I wear
something else.

00:23:14.531 --> 00:23:17.239
There’s a skirt that I love,
that is super old

00:23:17.281 --> 00:23:18.822
I’ve had it for a long time

00:23:18.822 --> 00:23:23.782
but I gave up wearing it
because I always hear gross comments

00:23:23.782 --> 00:23:24.948
when I’m wearing this skirt.

00:23:24.948 --> 00:23:30.865
But sometimes I wear
something like regular pants

00:23:32.365 --> 00:23:34.240
and still with the pants,
I hear the same comments.

00:23:34.240 --> 00:23:37.574
There’s no difference
because it’s not me

00:23:37.574 --> 00:23:41.699
it’s not my outfit,
the guy is not interested in me.

00:23:41.699 --> 00:23:46.074
it’s just to demonstrate that he
or his friends can flirt

00:23:46.074 --> 00:23:48.824
and say things to people
when walking on the streets

00:23:48.824 --> 00:23:51.116
and because “yes”,
because it’s part of being a man

00:23:51.116 --> 00:23:53.409
because it is masculine,
it’s part of this universe.

00:23:53.409 --> 00:23:55.950
Could be me, could be you ,
could me my neighbor.

00:23:55.950 --> 00:23:57.075
It doesn’t matter.

00:23:57.075 --> 00:24:01.034
And the women,
what do we think about this?

00:24:01.034 --> 00:24:04.367
They think it doesn\'t matter
how beautiful they are?

00:24:04.367 --> 00:24:07.242
Or it doesn’t matter how low
their self-esteem is?

00:24:07.242 --> 00:24:08.868
I’m going to play
the devil\'s advocate...

00:24:08.868 --> 00:24:10.826
I think it depends
on the woman.

00:24:11.451 --> 00:24:13.785
There are women
with class

00:24:13.785 --> 00:24:18.076
that you can notice that
she’s not interested in being hit on

00:24:18.076 --> 00:24:19.451
she’s not in the vibe.

00:24:19.451 --> 00:24:21.701
On the other hand,
there are women

00:24:21.701 --> 00:24:24.827
who are going to wear
extra small leggings

00:24:24.827 --> 00:24:27.702
and they have a big body,
they will wear a sports bra

00:24:27.702 --> 00:24:30.494
and they will go out just like that,
because they want to hear things.

00:24:30.494 --> 00:24:32.786
Yes, because she wants
to be call “sexy”.

00:24:32.786 --> 00:24:35.119
I am bringing up
a polemic topic.

00:24:35.411 --> 00:24:39.161
But it’s different than
the woman who, I don’t know...

00:24:39.161 --> 00:24:41.537
behaves properly,
who is not wearing open clothes

00:24:41.537 --> 00:24:44.370
then the guy goes there and says
“hey delicious” and whatever,

00:24:44.370 --> 00:24:47.037
like, in a situation
that is uncalled for?

00:24:47.037 --> 00:24:48.828
So, what is the standard?

00:24:48.870 --> 00:24:53.037
A type of woman
who can be harassed?

00:24:53.037 --> 00:24:55.871
It’s not that she deserves it,
none of them deserve it...

00:24:55.871 --> 00:25:00.871
but there’s the woman that likes,
that does it on purpose.

00:25:00.871 --> 00:25:03.329
It’s not that she deserves,
but her nature is like

00:25:03.329 --> 00:25:06.163
“I want to wear that outfit
cause I want to attract attention”.

00:25:06.163 --> 00:25:10.246
So, the tank top super tight,
the little sports bra

00:25:10.246 --> 00:25:12.455
are they normal clothes?

00:25:12.455 --> 00:25:14.789
They are normal clothes,
it just depends on the outfit

00:25:14.789 --> 00:25:16.330
nowadays this is normal.

00:25:16.330 --> 00:25:20.580
So if it’s normal,
the way we are describing...

00:25:20.580 --> 00:25:24.414
usually the women that are
vulnerable to listen to catcallings

00:25:24.414 --> 00:25:26.873
not by coincidence, are the ones
wearing a sports bra...

00:25:26.915 --> 00:25:27.998
a very tight sports bra...

00:25:27.998 --> 00:25:29.831
I think like that,
the woman wears a outfit

00:25:29.831 --> 00:25:33.915
that show her body off,
it’s there... guy gets excited.

00:25:33.915 --> 00:25:35.956
So, her problem is her body?

00:25:35.956 --> 00:25:38.290
It’s not that she has a problem,
the woman is not the problem.

00:25:38.290 --> 00:25:40.540
So the “woman”
is not the problem?

00:25:40.540 --> 00:25:41.666
Who’s the problem then?

00:25:41.666 --> 00:25:43.749
No, it’s the way the man
was raised.

00:25:43.749 --> 00:25:48.041
Men need to understand
that we were educated

00:25:49.582 --> 00:25:51.457
to have a relationship
with a woman

00:25:51.457 --> 00:25:54.374
where the man has power
over the woman’s body

00:25:54.416 --> 00:25:56.457
which includes giving
compliments to a woman.

00:25:56.457 --> 00:25:58.958
We are not going to harass,
which doesn’t mean

00:25:59.000 --> 00:26:01.333
that people can’t even
look at a woman

00:26:01.333 --> 00:26:03.125
it’s a mutual thing.

00:26:03.125 --> 00:26:07.667
It’s like “sometimes some women
like to hear a compliment”...

00:26:07.667 --> 00:26:09.625
she will give space for this.

00:26:09.625 --> 00:26:11.917
Us, men, we are here now
talking about this subject

00:26:11.958 --> 00:26:14.668
and we are basing this conversation
on things that we’ve heard

00:26:14.668 --> 00:26:15.959
in our life experiences

00:26:15.959 --> 00:26:17.918
but everything
is very specific.

00:26:18.418 --> 00:26:21.501
For a woman,
it’s about a second.

00:26:52.753 --> 00:26:54.961
I don’t feel safe in any
public transportation

00:26:54.961 --> 00:26:57.753
in any type of transportation.

00:26:57.753 --> 00:26:59.086
It always changes,
right?

00:26:59.086 --> 00:27:00.837
If the bus is empty,
it can be a opportunity

00:27:00.837 --> 00:27:02.171
sometimes it’s a look...

00:27:02.171 --> 00:27:03.879
Some people might not
even notice what’s going on

00:27:03.879 --> 00:27:05.254
but we feel it, right?

00:27:05.254 --> 00:27:07.337
Those looks that embarrass

00:27:07.337 --> 00:27:10.046
and embarrass only you,
on your soul.

00:27:40.839 --> 00:27:42.631
I really enjoy coming
to the beach

00:27:42.631 --> 00:27:44.923
because at the beach I feel free,
you know?

00:27:44.923 --> 00:27:48.882
I feel free to take my clothes off,
bath myself

00:27:48.882 --> 00:27:51.340
because everybody
is wearing a bathing suit

00:27:51.340 --> 00:27:53.215
it feels natural.

00:27:58.507 --> 00:28:00.840
I don’t even see all the harassments
happening at the beach

00:28:00.840 --> 00:28:02.508
it happens for sure
though.

00:28:02.508 --> 00:28:05.133
The women who are in good shape
are more harassed at the beach

00:28:05.175 --> 00:28:07.800
I’ve never been harassed
at the beach, never.

00:28:07.841 --> 00:28:10.300
That has never
happened to me.

00:28:10.300 --> 00:28:13.050
The minute you step out
from the beach

00:28:13.091 --> 00:28:15.258
when you step off the sand,
we have to get dressed.

00:28:15.258 --> 00:28:17.508
It would be normal
for a woman

00:28:17.508 --> 00:28:19.759
to just walk in her bikinis,
so why not?

00:28:37.093 --> 00:28:39.593
Meat market.
It’s classic.

00:28:39.593 --> 00:28:41.760
Believe me, in the
meat market is classic.

00:28:41.760 --> 00:28:44.093
I go to the meat market and some
employee says out loud:

00:28:44.135 --> 00:28:46.718
“So much meat
and I’m here starving”.

00:28:46.718 --> 00:28:48.510
When I feel safe,
I say something back.

00:28:48.510 --> 00:28:48.552
When I feel safe,
I say something back.
Some employees get ashamed,
others get pissed off

00:28:48.552 --> 00:28:52.678
Some employees get ashamed,
others get pissed off

00:28:52.719 --> 00:28:54.511
others call me fat.

00:28:54.511 --> 00:28:56.553
I don’t like to be seen
as a piece of meat

00:28:56.553 --> 00:28:58.594
always ready to someone
to take a bite, do you get it?

00:28:59.594 --> 00:29:06.429
1 in 3 women worldwide
suffer physical or sexual violence.

00:29:07.887 --> 00:29:12.804
In Brazil, a woman is raped
every 11 minutes.

00:29:14.637 --> 00:29:21.138
Brazil is the 5th country
in the feminicide ranking.

00:29:24.680 --> 00:29:27.930
86% of brazilians have already
suffered harassment in public spaces.

00:29:27.930 --> 00:29:31.096
77% of them
received whistles.

00:29:31.096 --> 00:29:33.638
57% heard
sexual comments.

00:29:33.638 --> 00:29:36.139
44% had
their bodies touched.

00:29:57.265 --> 00:30:00.557
I went to do a client\'s nails,
the place was situated

00:30:00.557 --> 00:30:01.973
in a vey dangerous area.

00:30:01.973 --> 00:30:04.432
When I was walking by,
one guy called me “hottie”.

00:30:04.432 --> 00:30:07.933
I ignored, just walked, but I got
afraid of ignoring him

00:30:07.933 --> 00:30:10.016
maybe I should have looked
at him and smiled

00:30:10.016 --> 00:30:12.808
because I go back to that place
many times to do nails, you know?

00:30:12.808 --> 00:30:15.141
And I’m scared that he might thinks
that I’m pretentious

00:30:15.141 --> 00:30:18.391
a snob, and other things,
and that he might do something to me.

00:30:21.266 --> 00:30:23.475
Since I was little
I’ve had a big body.

00:30:23.475 --> 00:30:26.309
I’ve always had thick legs
and a big butt.

00:30:26.309 --> 00:30:28.225
Men wouldn’t see me
as a 13 years old kid

00:30:28.225 --> 00:30:29.475
and if they would realize
that I was a kid

00:30:29.475 --> 00:30:31.100
they would pretend that
they didn’t know

00:30:31.100 --> 00:30:32.517
because they were always
hitting on me.

00:30:32.517 --> 00:30:34.684
I remember when I was
11 or 10 years old

00:30:34.684 --> 00:30:34.725
I remember when I was
11 or 10 years old
I used to go to the beach,
and I didn’t even have boobs yet.

00:30:34.725 --> 00:30:37.059
I used to go to the beach,
and I didn’t even have boobs yet.

00:30:37.059 --> 00:30:40.226
I used to wear
that old style bikini

00:30:40.226 --> 00:30:41.601
and believe it or not

00:30:41.601 --> 00:30:43.601
there were people
who would be looking at me.

00:30:44.018 --> 00:30:46.726
I started to suffer harassment
when I was very young.

00:30:46.726 --> 00:30:49.393
The first time that happened
I was 11.

00:30:49.393 --> 00:30:51.185
So, right there,
in the first moment

00:30:51.185 --> 00:30:54.186
I learned my first lesson
about being a woman in our world

00:30:54.186 --> 00:30:56.561
which is:
our body is public.

00:30:56.561 --> 00:30:58.769
A second lesson that I had
the same day

00:30:58.769 --> 00:31:00.352
was when a old woman

00:31:00.352 --> 00:31:02.852
that I was talking to
about being harassed

00:31:02.852 --> 00:31:04.061
told me like this:

00:31:04.061 --> 00:31:07.144
“Come on girl, don’t be silly,
take it as a compliment”.

00:31:07.144 --> 00:31:10.562
“When you get to my age,
you will miss it”.

00:31:10.562 --> 00:31:12.978
So this was the second lesson
I learned that day.

00:31:12.978 --> 00:31:16.270
That even when something
hurts me

00:31:16.270 --> 00:31:17.978
hurt me in the past,
humiliated me

00:31:17.978 --> 00:31:21.270
I had to accept it as something
good, as something positive.

00:31:21.270 --> 00:31:24.228
When I was 27 years old,
something happened

00:31:24.228 --> 00:31:26.646
in my life where I decided
that I wouldn’t be quiete anymore

00:31:26.646 --> 00:31:27.813
about harassment.

00:31:27.813 --> 00:31:31.063
Gerald Thomas, a theater director,
was launching a book...

00:31:31.063 --> 00:31:31.104
Gerald Thomas, a theater director,
was launching a book...
he invited all the journalists
and the media to a press conference

00:31:31.104 --> 00:31:34.354
he invited all the journalists
and the media to a press conference

00:31:34.354 --> 00:31:35.813
and between
the television reporters

00:31:35.813 --> 00:31:37.563
was a \"panicat\"
[sexualized reporter woman]

00:31:37.563 --> 00:31:39.479
Nicole Bahls,
from the TV show Pânico.

00:31:39.479 --> 00:31:42.189
While she was
interviewing him

00:31:42.189 --> 00:31:44.397
he decided and thought
it would be a nice idea

00:31:44.397 --> 00:31:46.980
to stick his hand
under her dress

00:31:46.980 --> 00:31:48.897
and this scene
was a shocking moment

00:31:48.897 --> 00:31:48.939
and this scene
was a shocking moment
because nobody that
was around them did anything.

00:31:48.939 --> 00:31:51.855
because nobody that
was around them did anything.

00:31:52.897 --> 00:31:55.272
GERALD THOMAS TOUCHS NICOLE BAHLS
AND CAUSES INDIGNATION

00:31:55.272 --> 00:31:58.315
NICOLE BAHLS
SAYS SHE WAS EMBARRASSED

00:31:58.356 --> 00:32:01.023
\"YES, I DID PUT MY HANDS
ON THE GIRL\"

00:32:02.106 --> 00:32:05.815
That shocked me a lot,
the feeling, the perception

00:32:05.815 --> 00:32:08.481
that touching a woman\'s body
without consent

00:32:08.481 --> 00:32:12.649
was something considered normal
by the people that were there.

00:32:12.649 --> 00:32:14.732
So I decided to do
something about it

00:32:14.732 --> 00:32:16.607
I wanted to write about this.

00:32:16.607 --> 00:32:21.066
This was the kick-start for my decision
of trying on my own to create a campaign.

00:32:21.066 --> 00:32:24.649
Because if nobody wanted to tell
the stories that I wanted to hear...

00:32:24.649 --> 00:32:27.942
then was time to tell those stories
starting from me.

00:32:27.942 --> 00:32:30.358
This is when “Enough With Catcallin”
was born.

00:32:31.358 --> 00:32:34.067
ENOUGH WITH CATCALLING
ALERTS TO HARASSMENT IN STREETS

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81% OF WOMEN DO NOT GO OUT
BECAUSE OF FEAR OF HARASSEMENT

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VIRTUAL MAP BRINGS REPORTS
OF WOMEN\'S HARASSMENT

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PLATFORM HELPS MAPPING
HARASSEMENT ON THE STREETS

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And something that is very
interesting is for us to take a look

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at the Enough With Catcalling Map.

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August 17, 2007, Moema, São Paulo,
she describes:

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\"I was waiting the bus to go to class.
The man stopped at the bus stop

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and asked me if the bus
was going to the bus station

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and asked me if the bus
was going to the bus station
and when I looked,
he was masturbating.

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and when I looked,
he was masturbating.

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I got scared,
I ran away.

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I went home crying
and I ended up missing my class\".

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And here comes
what we have talked before

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how certain places
are not safe for women.

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Imagine not being able
to wait for your bus

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when you are alone
at the bus stop.

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Something feels wrong to me.
If we are embarrassing someone

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and if us men, are contributing
to some places in the city

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to become dangerous to someone,
there is something wrong.

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And this \"someone\"
are women.

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They feel unconfortable,
they are scared.

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You can see that many women
are afraid

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of walking around
certain places.

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Because for us
what is going to happen?

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Nothing else besides getting
beat up, having something stolen

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and then leaving.

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But for a woman,
her first concern is with her body.

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- What did you say?
- That you\'re pretty.

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That I\'m pretty?

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Why did you tell me that
if you don\'t even know me?

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Because I think you are pretty,
I can\'t give you a compliment?

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But don\'t you think
that is kind of aggressive

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to compliment people
you don\'t even know?

00:34:15.448 --> 00:34:16.782
No, I\'m giving you
a lovely compliment.

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Don\'t you think is nice to tell you
that you are pretty?

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I didn\'t think it was nice.

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- I’m sorry, okay?
- Okay, thank you.

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Next time I\'ll tell you
that you are ugly then.

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No, I don’t think you need
to give your opinion.

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You okay? Need anything?

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No. I was just staring at you.

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- Okay, but why?
- Because you\'re beautiful.

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- Umm, because of this?
- Of course.

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Don\'t you think it is disrespectful
to stare at people like that?

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No, because if the person is pretty
you have to look at it.

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You can\'t provoke...
you can\'t say bullshit.

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It’s all about respect, right?
The body talks.

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And sometimes we feel
those words

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even though
they were not spoken.

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Sometimes it’s a look,
like that

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that looks your whole body
and makes you feel like an object.

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Sometimes not,
you feel respect

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you respond to it,
and then the flirt happens.

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But when it\'s just objetification,
when you\'re harassed

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it\'s an imposition, right?

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When I think about my life
as a trans girl

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I think the harassment can happen,
somehow, so quiet...

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because we are silenced, right?
We are marginalized people.

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Sometimes the guy
that is going to harass you

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he has already done it
and hidden that, right?

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That is already part
of his own masculinity, right?

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That is so weak, that he can only see
a woman as an object.

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It’s all so crazy,
because later on I realized

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that, sometimes, the same guy
that harasses you

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is the same guy that kills you.

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To be honest,
when I came to perform

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I was expecting to be arrested.

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If the cops
would arrest me

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they would be recognizing me
as a woman.

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And we know that the police
represents the State

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then, if the police
would have arrest me

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the police would have
to acknowledge myself as a woman.

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But how can you arrest me
and recognize me

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if the state itself can’t recognize me
like a woman?

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So, thinking like that,
the cops didn’t know what to do

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they were on the phone,
making some calls...

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because this is what it is...
my presence is a affront.

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Lately in my artistic projects
I’ve been questioning a lot about this...

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the people
we are talking with

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the people we are having
a conversation with.

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Before, my artistic work
was more connected

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with exhibition
in art galleries.

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But when you think about
art galleries and visual arts in Brazil

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you are talking about
an elitist system.

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So thinking a lot about that,
I was trying to find a way

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to bring this up
in a discussion.

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That is the discussion
about transsexuality

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it’s the discussion about
gender limits, it’s all the discussion

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that involves my body,
my presence... on the streets.

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[woman]
Jesus can change this life.

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This, here, it’s a “man” with little boobs.

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Can you see it?

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He’s here doing those things...

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Pushing other kids to become gay!

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And the third fact,
was when many women

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were coming upstairs
and they hugged me

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and they said lovely words,
that meant an identification, right?

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We identify each other
beyond the genitals.

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In the last years,
feminism has been reappearing

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especially from the youth

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and they started to see that
catcalling, in truth

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was a harassment,
and harassment is violence.

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And the best way to respond
to those aggressions

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I think is never to be passive,
but always to stick to your ideals, no?

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To show that, yes,
you are a human

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you are not an object, this body
isn’t a thing for you to use

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grab, touch, hurt,
or do whatever you want to.

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So for me, it’s always important
to stand up for yourself.

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I heard a catcall,
one guy, for example:

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“Ah, you are so beautiful,
let’s go fuck\".

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And I say “oh, cool, thanks,
but I have a dick”.

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That’s it. And this is enough
to shake this masculinity

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that is so fragile, you know?

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I think a lot
about those strategies...

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how can you embarrass that person
that embarrassed you

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but not in the “an eye for an eye,
a tooth for a tooth” perspective

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but more like a self defense
perspective

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so you can see how bad it is

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to treat someone like that.

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Almost 4pm, horrible heat,
I\'m like that, all sweat.

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After going up the hill

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and then getting at the corner
of Capote Valente...

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a guy sitting in a bar with friends,
he opens his arms to me

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and I’m walking and (breathing),
almost done walking up the hill

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and he says out loud:

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“Come here little baby, come to dad,
I’ll give you some love”

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and he licks his lips,
like that.

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When a guy harasses me
on the streets

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and he thinks it’s okay

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what stops him of feeling
comfortable

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when his touching my ass in a club,
touching my boob, my belly?

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What stops him from yelling at me
when I turn around and say “no”?

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Nothing, because the degree
is different

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but the intention
is the same.

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That the woman
you are harassing

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the woman you are catcalling
is just a thing

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that is there to give you pleasure,
and her own wish is irrelevant.

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Is there any difference between
harassment and catcalling?

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Of course. Harassment is the person
who invades the woman space

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and depending the catcalling,
can even be an elegant compliment, right?

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Knowing how to keep the conversation
won\'t hurt the woman.

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I believe that catcalling
is more about...

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you having the skills to talk to a woman
without offending her space.

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Now, sexual harassment
is when you invade her space

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with words that are not called
for at that moment.

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For example?

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For example,
when you approach a woman

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in a work environment
and call her “hottie”.

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That is totally unacceptable.

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Something that happens here
very often in the trains.

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The person is going to work...

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Yes, going to work, people take
advantage of the situation

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and start groping
the woman in the train.

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This for me it’s way more than
a harassment, this is almost a rape.

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Catcalling that happens
on the street

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is because the guy
just want to show off.

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Catcalling on the streets
won\'t cause anything.

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The woman is walking by
and you call her \"hey, sexy\"

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Is that really going
anywhere?

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So, why does the man do that?
He just want to show off.

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Just to show that he\'s superior.

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Show off for other women,
show off for whom?

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No, for his friends,
for him to feel he\'s \"the man\".

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To his friends,
his own ego.

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I think is one of the biggest
challenges for us, men...

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It\'s interesting that you mentioned
\"oh, so everybody here is a saint\".

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Yes, people think and criticize,
but is really hard for us

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even though you are not the aggressor...
to warn a friend that does this.

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And that\'s the point.

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Do you imagine there is
a model of masculinity

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that would made him to be seen
as more of a man than others?

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There is a projection of a sexist
masculinity that is the warrior man.

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Are we talking about
physical strength?

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It\'s about physical strength,
step forward in public

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it\'s about aggressivity, domination,
power, and there possession

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if not of money, possession
of virility, cars and go on.

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And obviously the penis, right?
The image of the big dick.

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Men should discuss masculinity,
organize themselves in that way

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to be conscious and
deconstruct this masculinity.

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This subject divide feminist women
because they say

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Some say \"Oh, but we are going
to talk about that

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and let our questions aside\".

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But this masculinity the way we live,
it affect us directly.

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I am at the airport
in Guarulhos, São Paulo.

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I just got here and there’s already
a guy looking at me, objectifying me.

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He started to look at me,
he was moving his lips

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and staring at me
for a long time.

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That guy there,
wearing a green outfit

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I hope the camera
can capture him.

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I just started to walk
and the first thing this guy does

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is also to walk to make sure
he can keep looking at me.

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The biggest problem
about harassment

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is that is something
that happens

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without the second
person\'s consent.

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There\'s a story that I often
tell people

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so they can understand
the meaning of \"consent\"

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that was sent by a man to
Enough With Catcalling Campaing.

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This man was in his car
driving back home

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and he saw his wife
walking down the street

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on her way home as well.

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He honked at her, so she could
see him and get a ride

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so they could go home
together.

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The woman started
to walk fast.

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He thought it was strange,
he honked again.

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she started to run,
so he had to park his car

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and say \"Calm down, it\'s me,
your husband, it\'s okay!

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I just wanted to give you a ride\".

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And she started to cry
really hard.

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So, it was just a honk sound,
wasn\'t even a word

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there was no meaning there

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but this type of approach without
permission or consent

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can scare a woman.

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I just got off the bus,
here at Dois de Julho Street.

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I came to a friend\'s house.

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I had to pass
through a group of men

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and they started to talk
about my ass

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and I\'m very scared,
I\'m walking a little faster

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because around here
it is too deserted.

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I work all day long,
I want to go out at night

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and I have to feel scared
and being approached.

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Man, are you going to talk
to me everyday?

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Don\'t you realize it bothers me?

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- Okay then.
- I don\'t know you, it sucks.

00:45:18.407 --> 00:45:21.532
- Okay, I\'m sorry, alright? I\'m stopping.
- Please, thank you.

00:45:28.200 --> 00:45:29.408
[whistles]

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Did you talk to me?

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Why did you talk to me?

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Because I think you\'re
very attractive.

00:45:35.450 --> 00:45:36.950
[unintelligible]

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Do you always do that?

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No, just with the ones
that really get my attention.

00:45:41.367 --> 00:45:43.701
Okay. And I should take this
as a compliment?

00:45:43.701 --> 00:45:44.868
[unintelligible]

00:45:44.868 --> 00:45:46.868
Actually I think this is harassment.

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No, it\'s a compliment.

00:45:48.201 --> 00:45:49.868
- Okay.
- Alright?

00:46:05.160 --> 00:46:10.035
Men that harasses,
the sexual aggressors

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they are our men.

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Men in our society,
they are inserted in our society.

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We have an image in our mind,
that those aggressors are monsters

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they don\'t have a face,
they wear a hood

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and they walk on a deserted street
and attack random women

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raping them afterwards

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and those men run away and disappear
and we will never find them again.

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The men we know
are the ones perpetuating this culture.

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I noticed this when the media
started to show

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some cases of harassment
and sexual violence

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and men that are part of my life,
that are amazing bosses

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and smart friends, in a certain way,
were trying to blame the victims.

00:46:53.872 --> 00:46:56.622
16 YEARS OLD IS RAPED
BY 33 MEN IN RIO DE JANEIRO

00:46:56.622 --> 00:46:59.372
1 OF 3 BRAZILIANS
BLAMES WOMEN FOR RAPE

00:46:59.372 --> 00:47:02.523
CURITIBA HAVE MORE THAN 40 CASES
OF HARASSEMENT ON BUS IN ONE YEAR

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FEMALE WRITER REPORTS RAPE
BY AN APP DRIVER

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180 HOTLINE IS AVALIABLE
FOR WOMEN VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE

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86% OF BRAZILIAN WOMEN
ARE AFRAID TO BE ON THE STREETS

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1 IN EACH 3 WOMEN WORLDWIDE
SUFFERS WITH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

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WOMEN POLICY DEPARTMENT REPORTS
OFFENSIVE STICKER OF PRESIDENT DILMA

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180 HOTLINE BREAKES RECORD
OF REPORTS IN 2016

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26% OF BRAZILIANS AGREE THAT WOMEN
WHO SHOW THEIR BODIES DESERVE TO BE ATTACKED

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I was raped by my uncle
when I was 12 years old

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in my grandma\'s house.

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A party was happening there.
It was a patron saint\'s party...

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I went to the party with my step sisters,
on a Saturday night

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I was in the rain dancing,
partying.

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I didn\'t use to drink, of course,
but I was dancing with my sisters

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and in the other day
there was a religious procession

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and everybody left,
but I was sick

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I had a fever, so they gave me medication
and left me there so I could sleep.

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I spent about a month
treating myself in a nurse\'s house...

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hidden...

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because...

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I had injuries...

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And don\'t you think that this is
something easy to say here, it\'s not!

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Actually,
it wasn\'t easy at all

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and I can tell you how helpful
those supportive groups of women are

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because since I\'ve started
to participate of this group

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I\'ve started to feel better
to talk about it

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because until today, nobody in
my house has touched the subject.

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It\'s like nothing happened.

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Do you know when something
\"didn\'t happen\"?

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When people delete
this part of your life?

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And when I was attending
these meetings...

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I heard many girls that were also
abused by their uncles.

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I told myself \"you know what,
I don\'t need to feel ashamed...

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it wasn\'t my fault,
I can talk about this.

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I can let it out.
Why do I have to keep this to myself?\"

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There\'s nothing that can be fixed now,
do you understand?

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But I think it can be an example
for other girls.

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I used to say that
I didn\'t have the chance

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to lose my virginity
with the guy of my dreams.

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Like all the girls
always dream about.

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I was raped
and then I was married.

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I wasn\'t living my life,
I wouldn\'t go out.

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My life was stuck,
and I tell you this...

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I\'m on the first marriage that I\'m living
where I love the person.

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I love my wife!

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It was the best thing
that happened in my life.

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Now I realize that I\'m not alone
anymore, you know?

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Yesterday I went down
the bus station at noon

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I felt like the wrong way
In the head the same prays

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God, may it not be my day today
I pray and step tight

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My body is my hurry

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There was a yelling swallowed
in the center of the city

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And at favela?
How many? Who?

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Blood spilled
and the body on the floor

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Girl...

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Nothing that could be
a headline

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And you even have to hear

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She was on short skirt

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She deserved

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Red lipstick

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Walk like a slut

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Showing cleavage

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It hurts deep and strong

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Slow death to the strong venter

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We know how fucked up
is to live in a sexist society.

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that puts limits, that establishes
rules, that explores you

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that makes you look inside
of yourself

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and sometimes even destroys
your self-esteem, right?

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Sexism is something connected
to a structural problem.

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It doesn\'t reflect
only the women existence

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but also the men existence.

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It dictates that men
must be strong

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must be the one to provide,
so it also colonizes this man.

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Because men can also be free
and they can learn things again.

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One of the things
that we are starting to notice is...

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is that this is a masculine
cultural standard.

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According to the IBGE research,
every 5 minutes

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a woman suffers aggression in Brazil,
and within 5 women

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1 have already being attacked
by a man.

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I verified at the police station
to see how many police reports

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of sexual harassment they had...
There\'s none.

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And why do you think
this happens?

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In this situation
the woman knows

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that reporting the abuse
won\'t change anything.

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About reporting it?

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No.

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The question would be:
to whom?

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If I\'d go to a police station
to report that someone

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in the middle of the street,
yelled \"hey, sexy\" at me...

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I have the feeling
they would laugh at me.

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So, let\'s start
with something obvious.

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Let me try typing
\"law\", \"harassment\", \"public space\".

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\"Street harassement
and harassement

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that takes place in public space
are recurrent.\"

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\"What can be considered
violence against women:

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We believe that any kind of harassment
that disrespect the moral

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psychological and physical
well-being of a woman

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it can be considered
an act of violence\".

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\"Aggressions as humiliation,
moral devaluation or public disrespect

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towards women are treated
as types of emotional violence\".

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That means,
when I feel harassed

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and I can\'t even hold
my head up straight

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because I\'m ashamed, intimidated,
this situation really suits it.

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So, in theory,
I would have legal support.

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This is what Maria da Penha
law is about.

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The one we believe that only stands
for domestic abuses against women

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but that\'s not it.

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\"All these things are considered
domestic violence\".

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So, no,
if you pay better attention to it...

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violence in public space
it is not domestic....

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So no, nevermind,
I don\'t have any legal support.

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I got excited for a moment,
but, no.

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How hard it is to find
this kind of information!

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Nowadays, the verbal and sexual
harassment that takes place in the street

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in a rude way, is understood as
offenses against public peace and decency.

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It weakens our fight against
sexual harassment so much.

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It needs to be specified.

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MAN EJACULATES IN A WOMAN
ON A BUS IN SÃO PAULO

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Because offense against public peace
and decency could be anything.

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not specifically this kind of harassment
placed in the street we are familiar with.

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JUSTICE RELEASED MAN
WHO EJACULATED ON PASSENGER BUS

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First solution is awareness.

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This is a long-term solution, it has to
begin from somewhere, though.

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When the Secretariat of Public Policies
for Women was created

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many people asked
\"What are policies for women?\"

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\"Policies for women are education policies?
\"Are women\'s health policies?\"

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And a hard work we had
was say that policies for women are ALL policies.

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That public policies will be more effective
if they are designed recognizing

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that there are differences between
men and women, not inequality.

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Public lighting, it can not be conceived
without being perceived

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and taken into account the spaces
most frequented by women and girls

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and at what times these spaces
are frequented.

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So the public lighting,
it has to match that.

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Don\'t say we are dying,
not today

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\'Cause I have this sore
eating reason

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Don\'t say we are dying,
not today

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\'Cause I have this sore
eating reason

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My self-experience have shown
how visibility could be the path

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to change these situations
of violence against women.

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Brazilian feminist movement,
it was born as a claimant of measures

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to the government,
authorities, for its demands.

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It has this character,
maybe for considering the fact

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it came alive at the same time Brazil
was going through redemocratization.

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THE REAL CONSTITUENT MUST HAVE
WOMEN VOICE

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What does it change, in 2003

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with the creation
of the Bureau of Policies for Women?

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From that moment on

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the council kept it existence
as an advisory body

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but we had an extension
in the executive.

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Not only we executed,
but also elaborated and formulated

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the policies, until it became
an institutional place

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capable of intervene
in the national policy.

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There was quite a fight.

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When I was the
Minister of Policies for Women

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it was when we launched the
180 hotline.

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We didn\'t have any resources

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but we did have the assurance
that reporting the facts was not enough.

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We started with
ten service stations.

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Many fellow feminists would say
\"Nilceia, this is crazy!\"

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\"You don\' thave such structure to attend
the coming demand\"

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And I would say
\"Bring on the demand!\"

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This will pressure the government,
it will show them we need

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to have resources for the 180 hotline.
And that is what happened.

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There is a brutal difference

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between the access
my students have to information

00:58:52.638 --> 00:58:58.540
compared to the access that my friends
and I had when we were teenagers.

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Questions about feminism
would remotely pass through my mind

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or the mind of my classmates
or my family.

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On the other hand, it was when
I was studying a History degree

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I was confronted
by people studying gender.

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I used to think \"gosh, what a pain,
what are those women discussing

00:59:22.799 --> 00:59:24.226
acting themselves like victims?\"

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I couldn\'t see that, me, Teresa,
with my white women privileges

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from a upper class family

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that I could only go to college
and decide to be a teacher

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because there was a huge fight
behind it all.

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My teachers never thought about
discussing this kind of subject.

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I think the school could be
a very important place

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to promote change
in our mentality.

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But, unfortunately, it becomes
a space to recreate violence.

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There is, of course

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a need for public policies
to fight harassment

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as well to penalize

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we need to follow
this direction

01:00:00.632 --> 01:00:04.268
but this is not enough
if we can\'t focus on education.

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What is possible for us to do,
to change this situation?

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I believe a man needs to speak
to another man

01:00:11.969 --> 01:00:15.475
ask him
\"Do you really think this is cool?\".

01:00:15.475 --> 01:00:17.264
Having a conversation
with a friend

01:00:17.264 --> 01:00:18.576
like the conversation
we are having here

01:00:18.576 --> 01:00:20.221
is something
that I would probably avoid.

01:00:20.221 --> 01:00:20.927
I\'d think

01:00:20.927 --> 01:00:23.780
\"Ah, I don\'t want to buy a fight
or get involved in this conversation\".

01:00:23.780 --> 01:00:26.928
Maybe a man with another man,
his friend...

01:00:26.928 --> 01:00:28.617
he would listen
what a friend has to say

01:00:28.617 --> 01:00:30.250
better than if he was
listening on the TV.

01:00:30.250 --> 01:00:33.686
The reflection about the subject
gives us ideas to deal with this problem.

01:00:33.686 --> 01:00:37.379
For example, we just came up here
with three solutions.

01:00:37.379 --> 01:00:39.782
I have never seen this
as a problem

01:00:39.782 --> 01:00:42.143
or as a situation
that needs to be changed.

01:00:42.143 --> 01:00:43.989
I didn\'t have any problems
with that

01:00:43.989 --> 01:00:46.907
but when you talk about it,
its like, wait...!

01:00:58.952 --> 01:01:01.140
With internet and blogs

01:01:01.140 --> 01:01:04.177
I think this speech
ended up reaching out

01:01:04.184 --> 01:01:07.660
a big number of people,
the ones we could\'t reach out

01:01:07.660 --> 01:01:08.888
in other ways.

01:01:08.888 --> 01:01:12.413
One of the biggest problems
we have inside women population

01:01:12.413 --> 01:01:14.029
mainly inside
black women population

01:01:14.029 --> 01:01:16.453
is that sometimes,
we don\'t even know we are oppressed

01:01:16.460 --> 01:01:19.476
we can\'t even name this oppression
we are suffering from.

01:01:19.465 --> 01:01:22.928
We can only transcend and fight
against something

01:01:22.930 --> 01:01:24.203
when we are conscious of it.

01:01:24.203 --> 01:01:28.651
I live in a small town
that is 50km from Brasilia

01:01:28.651 --> 01:01:33.331
which nobody knows,
and I spend too much things here.

01:01:33.352 --> 01:01:36.794
Harassment, transphobia,
every day.

01:01:36.794 --> 01:01:38.914
And these pains,
they are pains in common

01:01:38.914 --> 01:01:45.020
regardless of whether I am here Gama
or a sister that is in the interior of Alagoas

01:01:45.027 --> 01:01:46.516
or in the south of the country.

01:01:46.520 --> 01:01:50.755
I really like this articulation because
it is a mobilization that happens on the internet

01:01:50.755 --> 01:01:58.535
and makes us identify with several women
who are in several other places.

01:01:59.459 --> 01:02:03.375
#MySecretFriend says he\'s a nice guy
but calls women slut

01:02:03.375 --> 01:02:06.041
if they\'re wearing short skirts
and says they\'re asking to be raped.

01:02:06.041 --> 01:02:09.178
#FirstHarassment at age 12, walking back
from school, I ran away from a man

01:02:09.178 --> 01:02:11.326
who showed his penis
and kept masturbating behind me.

01:02:11.326 --> 01:02:14.918
We demand that, instead of dictating
what girls can wear, dictate respect.

01:02:14.928 --> 01:02:16.722
#WeAreGoingToUseSmallShorts

01:02:16.712 --> 01:02:20.439
#MyAbuserTeacher kept looking
at the girls\' asses when they were going

01:02:20.439 --> 01:02:22.903
to write on the board.

01:02:22.894 --> 01:02:26.975
I got a message from the app driver
saying that I was hot.

01:02:26.975 --> 01:02:29.189
#MyAbuserDriver

01:02:29.179 --> 01:02:32.326
A person arrives at the hospital
and is harassed by health professionals

01:02:32.326 --> 01:02:34.404
who deny to call you by your social name.
#Transphobia #SocialName

01:02:35.317 --> 01:02:40.419
The articulation done in social medias
is also subversive to the capital system.

01:02:40.419 --> 01:02:42.257
If you think about
the social medias

01:02:42.257 --> 01:02:46.507
they profit a lot from us, so,
we subvert the situation

01:02:46.507 --> 01:02:49.162
we bring our questions,
the ones we consider important

01:02:49.162 --> 01:02:52.625
to us women, black women, trans,
marginalized people.

01:02:52.625 --> 01:02:54.339
And I think
the feminist movement

01:02:54.339 --> 01:02:58.197
has a primary role
in fortifying women

01:02:58.197 --> 01:03:00.096
then, together

01:03:00.096 --> 01:03:05.961
women are able to identify questions
and fight for changes.

01:03:20.315 --> 01:03:23.176
Women have to occupy
all the spaces.

01:03:23.176 --> 01:03:26.292
We have started this
and it\'s visible that we are

01:03:26.292 --> 01:03:30.195
at the very beginning
of a new definition of citizenship

01:03:30.195 --> 01:03:34.266
a new definition of public space,
a new definition of city.

01:03:34.266 --> 01:03:36.595
This world is being built.

01:03:36.595 --> 01:03:40.877
I used to walk with my head down,
having a hunchback posture

01:03:40.856 --> 01:03:43.353
but nowadays,
after so much debating

01:03:43.332 --> 01:03:45.221
knowing that it happens
with so many people

01:03:45.221 --> 01:03:46.480
I feel more empowered

01:03:46.480 --> 01:03:51.558
and I walk with my head held high,
and I look into the eyes of the men.

01:03:51.558 --> 01:03:54.728
I noticed that sometimes it works.

01:03:54.917 --> 01:03:56.868
I am putting myself
into public spaces

01:03:56.868 --> 01:03:58.946
as someone who deserves
to be there.

01:03:59.386 --> 01:04:01.485
I don\'t think the city
could be for women.

01:04:01.485 --> 01:04:03.625
The city MUST be for women.

01:04:03.625 --> 01:04:05.766
We aren\'t here
asking for anything

01:04:05.766 --> 01:04:07.780
we only want to occupy
the space that is ours.

01:04:26.458 --> 01:04:31.663
Come help me, fellow woman
I can\'t walk on my own

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I do fine walking lonely
I do much better with you along

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Where is my cell phone?
I\'m going to call 180

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I\'ll give your name
And tell where my home is

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You won\'t step in here anymore
I\'ll say I don\'t know you

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I\'ll throw boiling water
If you dare

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I\'ll let the dogs out
And pointing at you

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I\'ll shout out
Catch him!

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I want to see you jump and run
In front of the neighbours

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You\'re going to regret
for raising a hand against me

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She was 13 year old when her dad stopped
the car on the side of the road

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Drunk, high, frantic

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Three women in the car
hostages of a schmuck

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He looked at the mother
and yelled at her

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He was an arrogant soldier
He thinks he got the whole world in his hands

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He slapped his wife
in front of the daughters

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The scared girls screamed
He told them to shut their mouth

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He said he would drink
their young blood

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The little girls then cried
from Val Paraíso to Gama

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Girls thought they\'d die
and had to swallow their snub

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Girls cried that night
he left, disturbed

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And the humiliated mother
had no more self-esteem

01:07:18.943 --> 01:07:21.692
He left them at home
in a poor house

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He left with a gun
like a crazy person with no soul

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He came back home quiet
and passed out

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And the 8 year old daughter
hid from the schmuck

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Next day he woke up
didn\'t even apologised

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He thought a smile was enough
to not be a monster

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Five years later
in a crazy situation

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And the father was confronted
by the girls that weren\'t only girls

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They became women
and yelled their rights against his abuses

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In a loud and strong voice

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No more abuse, only love!

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So the man ran away
he was kicked out of there

01:07:51.009 --> 01:07:53.758
Together the girls
became stronger

01:07:53.737 --> 01:07:56.717
and a better self-steem,
what a nice reputation!

01:07:56.696 --> 01:08:00.725
Black fighters in the streets
genuine ancestry

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that brings power
to fight against abuse

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Violence that leaves scars

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But every scar in a soul is the echoing cry
now with authority to stop that abuse

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the abuse that you think is a joke

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Now take care of yourself
\'cause the black girls are not scared

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and they are together

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so beautiful colors
that can bring the richness of this planet

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\'cause the body of a black woman
brings the scars of other conflicts

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Enslaved ancients,
the forgotten history

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invisibilities that were saved
for a defense

01:08:30.588 --> 01:08:33.673
for our girls
that are here and don\'t feel strong

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always remember that being black
or trans, or a poor girl

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called a bitch means being beautiful
beautiful, beautiful

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you are beautiful
and there\'s no oppression

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that will change our path
and for the girls that can listen to me

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keep the respect
if someone abuses you at home

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or in the streets
scream out loud to the moon

01:08:47.813 --> 01:08:50.533
so other \"wolves\"
other women will hear your pain

01:08:50.532 --> 01:08:53.060
Report to whomever
don\'t be scared with a dick

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\'cause women also got it
but some men might think we don\'t

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A man\'s dick is not
the center of universe

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For a life without abuse!

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Call 180 is a free line channel that provides help
and information for women victims of violence.

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Sexual harassment has been
described by women

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as one of the most common forms of embarrassment,
discrimination and violence in public spaces.

01:09:28.586 --> 01:09:34.744
Brazilian law interprets harassment in 3 ways:

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1. Constraints and threats in order to achieve
sexual favor by someone of a superior position.

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2. Offenses against public peace and decency, which
includes unpleasant, invasive and aggressive phrases.

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3. Obscene act, when someone performs a sexual act
in public with the intention of offending and assaulting.