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Judi Lynn

(160,598 posts)
Fri Dec 11, 2015, 06:22 PM Dec 2015

A Brazilian minister threw wine at a senator over a sexist comment

A Brazilian minister threw wine at a senator over a sexist comment

Written by

Frida Garza

4 hours ago

At a political dinner this week, Brazil’s minister of agriculture threw a glass of wine in a senator’s face. She has since been praised on social media for doing it.

Close to 40 senators—and Brazil’s vice president Michel Temer—attended the Dec. 9 dinner hosted by senator Eunício Oliveira, reports newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo.

During the get-together, minister of agriculture Kátia Abreu was speaking to a group of senators when senator

[cent joined the conversation and allegedly said, “Kátia, I hear you’re a woman who likes to date a lot.” According to Abreu, she responded by telling Serra, a former presidential candidate, “You are an inelegant, impolite, arrogant man. That’s why you’ll never reach the presidency.”

According to Folha:


In the end, the minister said she threw wine in Serra’s face and said: “I never gave you that right or that boldness. Please, leave this circle, go.” Serra would then proceed to clear the room.

More:
http://qz.com/571847/a-brazilian-minister-threw-wine-at-a-senator-over-a-sexist-comment/

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Super slimy Senador José Serra



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