Boycotting Cordera: they canceled two concerts and Rock & Pop will not be more Threads – LaCapital.com.ar

Suspensions recitals in Corrientes and Mendoza, negative radios to spend their issues and repudiation of national agencies and universities that qualified violent and chauvinistic their claims in the context of the alarming statistics on gender violence, were the repercussions statements musician Gustavo Cordera about women and their “need to be raped.”

the former leader of the group Bersuit Vergarabat said during a talk with journalism students TEA Art “there women need to be raped to have sex because they are hysterical and feel guilty for not being able to have sex freely “and was” an aberration “that no one could keep a sexual encounter with a girl under 16 years if she wanted it.

Musicians, actresses, actors, animators and writers repudiated these comments on social networks. Tamara Pettinato said: “Cordera was always so, only cared to say in the notes Crap.” While the chef Narda Lepes appropriated. “If Cordera not believe in the laws I hope that if justice does not condemn the . society does #pelotudo #inmundo #violento “.

Meanwhile, the actor Ezequiel Campa quipped:” you have to see in what context Cordera said what he said Perhaps the slogan was “to see. Gustavo, decite one animalada from which there is no return “”

While the Rock & amp radio!.; Pop issued a statement of condemnation and announced the decision of the station not spend more than your music.

“The rock is not about machismo and sexual aberrations on women. We join the campaign, no less because we must end the macho culture. We must stop thinking men as superior to women, “said the station.

the head of the National Council of women, Fabiana Tuñez said to be “banish the cultural patterns that naturalize aggression against women. This is not a task only of government, but of the whole society”

Meanwhile, the national Secretariat for Children, Youth and Family, Yael Bendel said that comments musician involve “violence” because “is revealed the machismo absolutely naturalized” and said the musician “must not only apologize but to repair somehow society.”

from the universities also echoed these statements were made. The authorities of the Superior Council of the National University of Cuyo (Cuyo) the disowned and described as “misogynist” and held that the city of Mendoza’s capital has suspended the concert scheduled for next Spring Day.

“following his misogynistic and violent statements on women UNCuyo and the city of Mendoza decided that the musician did not participate,” today officials said in a statement which also reject the attitude of “inciting violence against woman. “

Meanwhile the Minister of Education of the City of Buenos Aires, Soledad Acuña said that demonstrating against the claims of Gustavo Cordera is also” a way to educate, as we educate when we left to the streets to fight for the slogans, no less and the rights of women. “

” If you do not denounce and put in evidence this machismo we are teaching our children that being a public figure us allows you to say anything because fame is impunity, “said Acuña.

in Corrientes the Institute of provincial Culture suspended a concert musician” for their expressions of gender violence “while the Ombudsman People of Buenos Aires condemned the expressions claiming that they are “violative of human rights of women”.