Hi everybody, hi Jeronimo,
Isn't it the right time indeed for us to have a change in these Revistas de Capoeira, Capoeira Magazine from Br? The one called 'Revista Capoeira' also changed the attitude towards the women and now are displaying Master Joao Grande (lives now in NYC) in the forefront. Yet, they never apologised for the disrespect they did to us, women!
As we did notice in the editorial from the Revista the model Tiazinha and her decendents are professional models (sex models) and the editors decided to use them to help their sales. Don't we have enough capoeiristas to buy these magazines? Or could it be that in the editors' mind, cigarette, cars, etc, producers that the image of a "woman" (naked) is the only way they have to sell their products? This is total disrespect to our human race! Fortunately the Revistas in Brazil decided to change this "sex-game" promotion, yet I ask myself if the colonial Brazilian macho attitude is still present in our rodas. Until when we women will be forbidden (by the mestres) to open a Traditional Capoeira Angola Ritual, a Roda, just because they say that we bring bad luck? Traditions are 'traditions' yet not all are good for US... If Capoeira was created to serve the world, we are part of this world and can share the same rituals with men. We are not in the 18th century. I hope that our capoeiristas that follow such unfashionable traditions can meditate about this subject. It is on the past the time where some "ladainhas" used to say that men are playing the pandeiro and women just could clap their hands in a roda!
I wish you all from the Rod@ Virtual a great Merry Christmas and prosperity in 2000.
Mestra (master) Maria Pandeiro - Bremen, Alemanha
Sydney, June 30, 1999
Axé Brazilians and Capoeiristas, etc.,
This is my 2nd. protest note to Mr Adriano Chediak, 'Revista Capoeira Editor's, E-mail <[email protected]>. This morning I received via fax some pgs of the new edition of Revista Capoeira <www.capoeira.com.br>, this time featuring another sex model know as "feiticeira do H" - the witch of Mr TV Globo presenter Mr Hulk.
I am a Brazilian born and also an Australia citizen. I condemn such attitude towards Capoeira. Also I would like to tell Mr Adriano that fortunately his 'sexual Revista' is not well know here in OZ, as he mentioned in the magazine. Unfortunately to him AU is a good country, organized and looking after the education of its citizens. Our vote here means more then just sex appeal. Most of our Australian capoeiristas don't know about this shameful game that you are promoting in Brazil!
I can only imagine that the Brazilian women don't agree with the discrimination you play using them to sell the magazine. This vulgar attitude only helps to add more shame in the already "hot" (prostituted) sex label that Brazilians have outside Brazil.
Dear Adriano, other sex appeal Capoeira based magazines, we need to promote more education and respect to all.
Yours
JERÔNIMO SANTOS DA SILVA
Father and Professional Capoeirista
I've been reading the REVISTA CAPOEIRA's second edition which arrived in my hands in Sydney and would like to send the editors my congratulations for the publication. I also would like to express my view as a professional capoeirista who works abroad with Capoeira to the publishers of the Revista Capoeira.
I noticed that in the first edition of the magazine you had a woman capoeirista (model?!) in the front cover of the magazine and then the model "Tiazinha" (very pretty dressed indeed...!!) doing "capoeira poses" in the front layer of the second edition. We have two sides to consider: first the women's active participation in the current Roda de Capoeira scene. Second, particularly outside of Brazil, the image already vulgarized of the Brazilian woman that has a "registered label" of prostitute!!
If the Revista Capoeira keeps on promoting this kind of sexual appellative propaganda, Capoeira will certainly lose its historical, cultural and folkloric value. This magazine also could soon be associated with these most vulgar sexual magazines that circulates in the "black and white" market of our growing spiritually empty world. Capoeira is for me a very serious thing! It is also my profession and a unique cultural legacy of Brazil.
Aware of the cultural and historical value of our popular art I don't approve of this type of advertisement to the promotion of Capoeira. This kind of sex appealing propaganda decreases more than helps the sum for the upgrade of our ritual. Who loses the "credit card" and it will be discriminated at the end of the "game" is the Brazilian family, the women, the artists and professionals who are working with Capoeira everywhere!
As a father (I have a 8 year old daughter), a reader of this magazine and a professional musician and capoeirista working for the promotion of the Brazilian culture in Australia, I would like to suggest to the publishers that they should also include the true elements of the Capoeira ritual in the front cover of this magazine.
Therefore, it would be very good to see the Revista Capoeira develop and contribute for the evolution and exaltation of our Brazilian culture and its people.
Sincerely
JERÔNIMO SANTOS DA SILVA
Jerônimo Capoeira