The president of the Senate Commission for Gender Equality, Malú Micher, considered that the director of the Economic Culture Fund (FCE), Paco Ignacio Taibo II, should offer a public apology for the offensive comments he made regarding literary works by women.
The Morena senator stressed that, of course, she does not join the requests for the writer to resign, since “he is a great promoter of reading,” but she must recognize that she was wrong and open the doors of the FCE to more women’s works.
The controversy arose when Taibo, in the morning conference of President Claudia Sheinbaum on the 22nd, when asked about the low representation of female writers in a popularization collection of the FCE, responded that the books are not chosen by gender quotas, but by their quality.
He added that “a collection of poems written by a woman that is horribly disgusting and bad, just because it is written by a woman, does not deserve to be sent to a community room in the middle of Guanajuato.”