Carol Proner says Cantanhêde's attack on Janja is like the statement of a sexist mother protecting her abusive son.

247 - The prejudiced, disrespectful, sexist and anti-democratic statements made by journalist Eliane Cantanhêde, a political commentator on GloboNews on Friday night (11), about the role of sociologist Rosângela Lula da Silva, Janja, Lula's wife and future first lady of the country, were the target of severe criticism from prominent female personalities.

The national president of the Workers' Party, Gleisi Hoffmann, federal deputy Erika Kokay, singer Daniela Mercury, and Lilia Schwarcz, anthropologist, historian and professor at USP, reacted on Saturday with strong statements in defense of Janja and in repudiation of the journalist's malicious comments. 

This Sunday (13), Carol Proner, lawyer, jurist, columnist active in the areas of International Law and Human Rights, founder of the Brazilian Association of Jurists for Democracy and member of the Prerogatives Group declared to Brasil 247 that "it is striking when an enlightened and well-positioned woman deepens the sexist culture and closes ranks to consolidate male power and the limits of female power". 

According to Carol Proner, "ultimately, the journalist cultivates female guilt, the guilt of the sexist mother defending a code of values ​​to justify her own choices, guilt as a trump card of patriarchy to discourage women from exercising their freedom."

Carol Proner highlights the temporal coincidence between the moment she was watching a film and the moment the journalist expressed her prejudice against Janja on GloboNews: "Curiously, on the day that journalist Eliane Cantanhêde delivered a highly sexist speech against Janja and other former Brazilian first ladies, I was finishing watching the last episode of ALBA, a melodramatic Spanish version of the Turkish series Fatmagül'ün Suçu Ne, which also deals with sexual assault. My impression was that the GloboNews journalist could well fit the role of the abuser's mother who, until the end of the plot, defended the arrogant behavior of her heir, exercised, in the final act, as a sexual crime. The mother protected her son so blindly that she was unable to recognize that she herself had been a victim of similar abuse throughout her life." Carol clarifies that she has no interest in "offending the journalist, who will certainly recognize, deep down, the countless times she has had to confront patriarchal culture to forge her own path." 

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