Monday, November 26, 2018

Sanctions on countries that discriminate women now!

Countries which officially promote discrimination and violence against women MUST be subjected to international sanctions and boycotts, like South Africa during the apartheid era.
There is neither rational nor moral basis for not doing so.
Countries in which women are subjected to more comprehensive duties and prohibitions than their male counterparts, less freedom, restrictive dress code, patriarchal authority, must be understood as human rights violators and nothing better.
No "cultural identity" claims must be accepted as a valid defensive argument.
Due to apartheid, South Africa was formally expelled from the IOC - International Olympic Comittee in 1970. 
Therefore, countries which violate women's rights ought to be expelled from the IOC on the same grounds that South Africa was expelled in 1970.
Sexist countries must also be expelled from FIFA and other international sports federations, like IAAF, ITTF.  No Football World Cup should take place in a country that does not grant equal rights for both men and women.
I do not understand why sexism does not arise the same worldwide rejection as racism did.
Sexism is not less heinous than racism;  it is not less harmful;  not more morally acceptable.
Likewise, the countries I refer to must also suffer international academic boycott.  South African academic institutions and scholars underwent boycott during the apartheid era.  So why do the world's best universities continue to accept scholars coming from such countries?
Did you know that, during the apartheid era, the following happened?
1.  Foreign scholars refused to collaborate with South African scholars;
2.  South African scholars' works were refused publication;
3.  no international conference was held in South Africa;
4.  South African scholars were not given access to resources of foreign universities.

Scholars that come from countries that adopt discriminatory policies and rules against women must therefore suffer academic boycott.

Women of the world:  think about it.

Tuesday, November 06, 2018

Expulsar a religião da política

Nós temos que expulsar a religião da política.  Proibir os partidos religiosos.  Tornar inelegíveis todos os sacerdotes.  Tirar o discurso religioso das eleições.  A História prova o que as teocracias fazem:  massacres (Noite de São Bartolomeu), genocidios (vide o que Espanha e Portugal, unidos à Igreja Católica, fizeram com os judeus), escravidão (a Igreja Católica aprovou a escravidão dos africanos e até hoje incentiva a escravidão das mulheres;  as igrejas evangélicas promovem a escravidão das mulheres no Brasil), perseguição e discriminação (machismo e homofobia), miséria, sobretudo feminina (opondo-se à contracepção).  A História prova que as teocracias são muito mais duradouras do que as mais brutais ditaduras não teocrática.  O III Reich durou 12 anos.  A Revolução Islâmica já dura 39.  As monarquias absolutistas, unidas às igrejas, duraram séculos.  Em pleno século XX, a Gra-Bretanha impôs a abdicação de um rei por conta da intrusão da religião na política.  Vejam o que fazem Estados teocrático contemporâneos com seus cidadãos, sobretudo cidadãs.  O Brasil caminha para uma teocracia cristã. Não podemos deixar que ocorra.