Mick Hartley

Men make the best women – the Brazilian edition:

This week, Glamour Magazine‘s Brazil franchise announced the winners of its Generation Glamour event honoring women. Out of 15 categories, 2 of the female-focused awards went to trans-identified males — including Woman of the Year.

Linn da Quebrada, a male social media influencer, took home the top award despite the fact he has stated he does not identify as a woman, and does not believe women ‘exist.’

In an interview with presenter Pedro Bial, a journalist from Globo Television Network, Quebrada stated “I’m not a woman, I’m a transvestite,” going on to say: “let’s be honest, there’s no such thing as ‘a woman.'”

An interesting take there. I suppose if anyone can be a woman then the term does rather lose its descriptive force. But still, he's happy to accept the "Woman of the Year" award. 

Earlier this year, Quebrada did a Mother’s Day photoshoot in which he wore a fake pregnant belly. The social media influencer claimed he wanted to be a “mother” one day, and dreamed of getting pregnant.

And of course manages to look more "glamorous" than any boring ordinary pregnant woman would. 

There's a history here:

Quebrada and Heliodoro’s awards recall a recent controversy in which another well-known magazine named a trans-identified male pimp as one of Brazil’s top “Inspirational Women’s Rights Advocates.”

On December 20, 2021, Marie Claire Brazil posted a year-end slideshow to its Instagram featuring “7 women making a difference for human rights in Brazil.” The list was intended to feature female human rights activists, but emphasize those who specifically made an impact on the lives of other women.

The magazine’s 6th slot was given to Indianara Siqueira, a biological male prostitute who was convicted of aggravated pimping in France in 2007, and served a 3-year prison sentence in the country as a result….

Brazil is a hotbed of sex-based violence, with femicide rates increasing despite the country’s overall murder rate going down. According to the most recent data, four girls under the age of 13 are raped every hour in Brazil, with the majority of sexual violence victims being “shockingly young.”

Despite women’s rights movements falling flat in the country, which is now ranked among the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman, Brazil is seeing little political progress for sex-based rights, with the nation having an extremely low rate of female political representation.

In 2020, a trans-identified male politician elected to the São Paulo City Council was named the “most voted for woman” in Brazil.

Could it be that the glorification of trans women parading their sexualised caricatures goes hand in hand with a profound misogyny? Well who could have guessed?