{"id":1983,"date":"2018-09-26T14:11:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T14:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=1983"},"modified":"2018-09-27T18:14:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T18:14:16","slug":"jair-bolsonaro-candidate-in-brazil-faces-womens-calls-nothim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2018\/09\/26\/jair-bolsonaro-candidate-in-brazil-faces-womens-calls-nothim\/","title":{"rendered":"Jair Bolsonaro, Candidate in Brazil, Faces Women\u2019s Calls: #NotHim"},"content":{"rendered":"
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S\u00c3O PAULO \u2014 Brazilian women may not have galvanized behind any one candidate in the coming presidential election, but a growing number have taken to social media to make clear whom they will not vote for: the far-right front-runner Jair Bolsonaro.<\/p>\n

A social media campaign called #EleN\u00e3o \u2014 or #NotHim \u2014 is the most recent example of how women in Brazil are mobilizing against a politician who has publicly called women\u00a0ignorant<\/a>,\u00a0too ugly to rape<\/a>, or undeserving of the\u00a0same salary as men<\/a>. In one speech, Bolsonaro, who is the father of four sons and one daughter, called having a female child a \u201cmoment of weakness.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNot him because he\u2019s machista, not him because he\u2019s homophobic, not him because he\u2019s racist, not him because he\u2019s a throwback for our democracy,\u201d a popular Brazilian singer, Daniela Mercury, said in\u00a0a video<\/a>\u00a0posted to Instagram over the weekend. She urged Brazilians to attend nationwide protests repudiating Mr. Bolsonaro on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of thousands of people have signed up on Facebook for planned \u201cWomen Against Bolsonaro\u201d marches, and 2.9 million have joined the \u201cWomen United Against Bolsonaro\u201d Facebook group, which turned private after it was repeatedly hacked.<\/p>\n

Ms. Mercury called out a fellow performer, Anitta, Brazil\u2019s biggest international pop star, who has come under fire for refusing to publicly denounce Mr. Bolsonaro. \u201cI would like to challenge my friend Anitta to support the #EleN\u00e3o movement,\u201d she said. \u201cLet\u2019s go Anitta?\u201d<\/p>\n

After days of insisting on the right to a secret vote and declining to talk about specific candidates, Anitta finally took to social media with\u00a0her own repudiation<\/a>\u00a0on Sunday. It was seen by some 3.5 million people in the first 24 hours.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to make it clear once and for all that I do not support the candidate Bolsonaro,\u201d she said in an uncharacteristically serious video, insisting that her fight against homophobia and racism speak for themselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, I support the use of the hashtag EleN\u00e3o,\u201d she added, inviting three more female singers to join the movement.<\/p>\n

The public pressure on Anitta highlighted the polarization of these elections, the most splintered and divisive since Brazil\u2019s return to democracy in the 1980s, and the role women may play in them.<\/p>\n

Mr. Bolsonaro, a former army captain who has been a representative since 1991, was long a marginal figure in Congress,\u00a0best known for his incendiary comments<\/a>. Beyond denigrating women, he has also offended blacks and suggested he would rather a son die than turn out gay.<\/p>\n

But a vast corruption investigation that engulfed all of the country\u2019s major political parties and many traditional leaders has nevertheless propelled Mr. Bolsonaro to the forefront in this year\u2019s race.<\/p>\n

He is seen by his many supporters as a straight-talker who isn\u2019t afraid to do \u2014 and say \u2014 what is needed. He has made fighting political corruption and rampant crime the cornerstones of his campaign, vowing to drain the swamp, give the police more freedom to kill criminals, and make it easier for civilians to own arms.<\/p>\n

Mr. Bolsonaro was already leading the polls when his candidacy got an unexpected bump this month: He was stabbed in the abdomen at a campaign rally and rushed to the hospital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n

According to the latest\u00a0Datafolha survey<\/a>, Mr. Bolsonaro has the support of 28 percent of those polled \u2014 in Brazil, voting is obligatory. His rivals are all below 20 percent.<\/p>\n

Still, Mr. Bolsonaro does not appear to have the 50 percent needed to win outright on Oct. 7 and avoid a runoff vote. And if there is a runoff, standing among female voters could prove pivotal. According to\u00a0a poll by Ibope<\/a>, a full half said they would not cast their ballot for Mr. Bolsonaro under any circumstances, compared with 33 percent of men.<\/p>\n

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The candidate has been trying to connect with women, with mixed results. In an emotional video recorded before he was attacked, he teared up when he described reversing his vasectomy. He did it, he said in the video, to make his wife happy because \u201cwomen largely find fulfillment in having children.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many viewers took offense.<\/p>\n

The male-female split in Brazil now is being compared to the divisions in the United States in 2016 when Donald J. Trump was running and after he was elected president. Many women, appalled by Mr. Trump\u2019s\u00a0vulgar comments<\/a>, rallied behind Hillary Clinton, and then took to the streets in protest wearing pink \u201cpussy hats.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even as Mr. Bolsonaro recovers in a hospital, his political rallies have continued to infuriate many women in Brazil. At an event in the northeastern city of Recife over the weekend,\u00a0his supporters sang<\/a>about feeding dog food to feminists. At\u00a0another event<\/a>, his running mate, Hamilton Mour\u00e3o, said families headed by mothers and grandmothers were \u201cfactories of misfits\u201d that fed local drug gangs.<\/p>\n

A conservative television commentator, Rachel Sheherazade, angered some of her followers when she responded by throwing her support behind the anti-Bolsonaro movement\u00a0on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am a woman. I am raising two children alone. I was raised by my mother and my grandmother,\u201d she posted on Twitter. \u201cNo. No, we are not criminals. We are HEROINES! #elenao.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

S\u00c3O PAULO \u2014 Brazilian women may not have galvanized behind any one candidate in the coming presidential election, but a growing number have taken to social media to make clear whom they will not vote for: the far-right front-runner Jair Bolsonaro. A social media campaign called #EleN\u00e3o \u2014 or #NotHim \u2014 is the most recent example of how women in… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-1983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-ny-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1984,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions\/1984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}