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Absurd and deplorable, but in some ways this comes as no surprise. For decades successive Brazilian governments have displayed an inferiority complex towards the developed west and have accordingly been eager to sacrifice their country's charms for the sake of appearing 'progressive' and 'up to date'. Perhaps the most egregious pre-feminist example of this is the capital of Brasilia, which is essentially a distillation of all the worst failures of European/American modernist architecture and urban planning (designed by a Stalinist architect no less). Being by all accounts a sterile and soulless city, practically no one in Brazil likes it, not even the bureaucrats forced to live there. It's because the only objective in designing the city was (aside from removing the capital to a remote region so that protests couldn't bother anyone in power) to appear even more 'modern' than the west, regardless of how unbearably stupid that conception of modernity was.

Basically, Brazil's rulers are mesmerized by western fads like a cat is mesmerized by a ball of string...now that "beauty is evil" feminism is in vogue in the US, it was only a matter of time before Brazil's leaders began loudly and clumsily mimicking the trend.