Enough with Catcalling: Fighting Sexual Assault in Brazil
Directed by Amanda Kamacheck and Fernanda Frazo (2018)
Film Review
This documentary concerns a female-led campaign to reduce sexual assault levels in Brazil, including verbal aggression commonly known as catcalling.* Brazil, where a woman is raped every 11 minutes, is fifth highest in the world for its rate of femicide. Eighty-one percent of Brazilian women report being emotionally distressed by catcalling. Forty-four percent complain of touched without their permission.
In contrast one-third of Brazilian men blame rape victims for being raped. Twenty-six percent agree that women who reveal too much of their bodies deserve to be raped. As for catcalling, a majority feel it’s okay – because it doesn’t invade women’s space and “women should accept it as a compliment.”
In Brazil, men are raised to believe they have the right to control women’s bodies and comment on them. The filmmakers interview…
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