The "typical" man and "typical" woman of Maré

Typical Man of Maré:

“This man is young, black, colored hair, loves funk music and speaks slang. He uses drugs, he doesn’t study, he likes to dress in designer labels, he admires drug traffickers, he likes to fight--especially with the police and says he isn’t scared of getting shot. He likes his women very young and calls them dogs.”

Typical Women of Maré:

“She wants to have long hair and dresses in the style of the favela. She leaves school and gets pregnant, she continues to be single and she gets pregnant again. She doesn’t mind being called a dog and has a low self-esteem. She likes to dance and she falls in love, losing her adolescence in a hurry. She waits for her charming prince and wants to be like the women in the soap operas. Her dreams have been suffocated. She has been eluded. She doesn’t have rights; she doesn’t have wants; and she is just one more in the middle of many.”