Suzana Pires says that male BBB reflects a forgotten woman in society

Six men and no women. This is how the final stretch of Big Brother Brasil 22 (Globo) began. An unprecedented formation in more than 20 years of the program, but for the actress, writer and entrepreneur Suzana Pires, 45, it shows much more than a game dynamics. For her, it is a reflection of society.

“This shows the moment we live in, especially post-pandemic, when women were removed from their places, fired for having to take care of their careers and children and not counting on the patience of their bosses, whose wives solve everything. It’s very symptomatic. , and the BBB has reflected society”, he says.

Before reaching this formation of six men and no women, reality had already shown this machismo with the elimination of singer Linn da Quebrada, supposedly for having nominated athlete Paulo André to Paredão after he abandoned a race for her benefit, recalls the artist.

“A trans woman with that intensity and representation is going to rock out here. Whether in the game or in life, a woman’s conviction is much greater, it’s done with iron and fire and with a knife much sharper than with men. couldn’t have voted for him. Why can’t you?”, he asks.

This toxic movement, still far from cooling down, is one of the topics addressed in Suzana Pires’ new book, “Dona de Si”, released last month and named after her institute aimed at women. In addition to machismo, it addresses overload, oppression and difficulties faced by women at work and in life.

The project started as a column in Marie Claire, Vogue and Forbes magazines, but with success it became an institute and later a life mission for Suzana. At first, she told her own stories. In the column, in lectures, she even decided to take the reins and act, creating the institute and then the book.

“These methods of ‘Dona de Si’, I developed based on research. Today I am not alone. These thousand women [ajudadas pelo instituto] impact thousands more and one changes the lives of the other”, she says. The book, which details the method of accelerating women’s personal and professional development, the author divides into three main parts. stories of her own.

“Part one is about knowing what you want and strengthening your emotional side to deal with oppression, burden and loneliness. Then comes part two which is a step-by-step guide to unleashing your strength. Every woman has a talent for putting into practice. This part also addresses how to neutralize oppression and how to get up from tripping”, explains Pires.

The third part of the book deals with how to make a commitment to yourself. “We need to make women understand who they are, the weaknesses and challenges of the world to move forward.”

Suzana herself went through this process when she was still 14 years old, at the time still under the influence of her parents. The first gifts that helped shape this side of her were the books by Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), then came the faculty of philosophy. But still she claims to have suffered everything she tries to fight with her books,

“I started with an understanding of what I wanted to do with myself first. And I built a career that took a unique path. But for every woman, when there is a pioneering place, there is also a price to pay. arrived and you really realize it. And that’s where the oppressions start that make you doubt yourself”, he reflects.

In Suzana’s studies along the way, she realized that there are two major difficulties that women face at the beginning of their professional life. The first she calls the broken step, which represents a person climbing a ladder and ascending in life, but at a given moment cannot take the next step because it does not fit in with what a more powerful male group thinks. “So we always need to prove ourselves three times more,” she says.

The second difficulty is named by her in the book as Breaking the Crystal Ceiling. “It’s when you’re between your fifth and seventh year and you become a leader of more people, you have bigger gains. There’s a translucent roof in our head that shows this place of power, but we can’t touch it. When we’re prepared, the ceiling breaks and we realize that we have arrived at a more hostile place”.

Harassment, both sexual and moral, is also addressed by the author in the work. She herself says that she has suffered from it throughout her career, but that she soon developed a kind of shell and a “trained eye against harassment”. She warns all women to collect evidence in case something happens so that they are not defeated at the time of “word against word”.

“I was harassed, yes. I had emotional consequences for that, but I was able to go to therapy, I remembered the books given to me by my mother, I had someone to look after me. 17 years old, in the 1990s, on TV Manchete, I saw a different situation. We didn’t even talk about these subjects yet. But I didn’t like the atmosphere and went to the theater with the idea that I would only return to TV if I guaranteed more strength to act”, remember.

And that’s exactly what she did. With more age and knowledge about this topic and about what happened behind the scenes in a professional environment “regardless of whether it was television or any company”, Suzana returned to TV, at that time at Globo, with a different mind.

“Sexual harassment in my early 20s, in my return to TV, no longer happened, but morale did. Then I saw that we have to review human power relations. and see if there’s something wrong. And people already know I’m like that”, reinforces the artist, who since March 31 is no longer part of TV Globo’s casting.

Since April 1, she has been recording scenes as a villain in a series for Disney+ called “Magic of Aruna”. “Right at the first meeting the theme was about mutual respect between all of us and social interactions. Tears flowed hard. I’m very grateful to be able to leave one job and literally the next day start in another one. It’s been very emotional”, it says.

“The pandemic was unstructured, we women were the most fired, our businesses were the ones that broke the most. Now it’s time to give our maximum energy. Our culture is heavy, misogynistic, lack of patience with women. But we won’t give up to make noise”, he concludes.