After being acquitted, the USP student who raped women wants to specialize in gynecology.

When I recorded a video for Canal Púrpura about chemical castration, I was severely criticized by conservative groups. I argued that castration is not the solution because violence is not in male hormones, but in culture. I said that punishment, while obviously important, does not have the power to promote a cultural transformation, which is essential to combat gender violence. And I reiterated that I think it is harmful to seek answers in the approval of this project because it diverts society's attention from behaviors that build the patriarchal culture that structures crimes against women. We know that incoherence resides in everyday life. 

The men who shout against these criminals are the same ones who disrespect women in the street, share unauthorized intimate content, or raise their voices at their female classmates. And the author of the bill is the same congressman who says that the State should not invest in policies for equal pay between genders and that he would not hire women with his own salary, since they get pregnant and could cause losses to his company. This shows us that believing in castration ends up being a pretext for many men not to see the brick they lay every day in the wall that this culture represents. And here comes the proof. The student accused of repeatedly committing the crime in question had his behavior legitimized by one of the most respected institutions in Brazil and will specialize in gynecology and obstetrics. USP (University of São Paulo) did not interfere in the fate of the women who will be treated by this doctor. 

The São Paulo Court of Justice doesn't agree either. Nor does the Regional Council of Medicine of Pernambuco, which issued the registration previously denied by the São Paulo body. If even the State has responsibility in the context of gender violence, how come so many people don't realize that the problem lies in society itself, not in the medicine injected into the criminal's vein? To prevent more wives from being thrown from apartment balconies, are we going to ban the construction of buildings or study what's behind cases of femicide? Women are not violated because men have hormones. Rather, it's because gender equality still doesn't exist in a society that condones the successive disrespects suffered daily by women. We will only change the reality of violence by transforming the culture that created it. #canalpúrpura #PurpurizeSe #feminism #womensrights #genderequality #genderviolence #machismo #harassment #abuse #aggression