(Puerto del Rosario) — An audio recording released this week captures Aurelia Vera, a school teacher who is also a socialist city council member in the Canary Islands town of Puerto del Rosario, telling teen students that “boys should be castrated at birth” as part of a thought experiment in which students were asked to envision a matriarchal society.

The recording, published Thursday by Spanish newspaper Okdiario kicked up a firestorm of backlash that included a denunciation of the educator’s behavior by Francisco Serrano, the anti-feminist leader of Spain’s Vox political party.

Serrano has filed a complaint in the Spanish court system against Vera, claiming he has received numerous messages on Facebook from concerned parents of students in her class.

Vera is a ranking member of the Puerto del Rosario branch of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, according to Okdiario. Multiple outlets reported that she also teaches language at I.E.S. San Diego, a high school in Puerto del Rosario.

El Diario reported that Vera prompted students to imagine a society in which the roles were reversed and women physically subjugated men.

In the debate to change roles and imagine how women could physically subject men, the teacher alludes to the need to reduce male strength, which resides in testosterone.

“Boys should be castrated at birth, but selectively, to avoid the extinction of the species,” Vera said in response to a student’s question.

“We must make men stop governing so they give power to us. Will they voluntarily do it? No. We have to resort to selective castration,” Vera said.

Given the stupor of the students, Vera asks: “Would saving the planet justify castrating 25% of the population?” When the students refused to answer, the teacher affirmed: “But if you cut off your penis nothing happens to you.”

During the lecture a student asked “what system you think is needed?”, the teacher responded: “You have to invent it. I do have one”, and adds: “The matria”.

The teacher compared her idea of “matria” with communist dictatorships saying “the main problem that the communist parties had was how to implement it. And since they could not implant it, they became dictatorships, okay? If everyone had agreed with the communist parties, there would have been no dictatorships. But the problem is that everyone did not want to.”

The teacher then lashed out against religion saying, “You can not be democratic and religious. And we have to keep a close eye on the religious, because if they could, they would erase democracy. Religion and democracy are incompatible”.

The teacher also took the time to praise socialism and defend the regime of Hugo Chávez, while blaming the United States for the current situation in Venezuela and Cuba.

According to El Diario, the teacher’s comments came as part of a discussion centered around Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a novel turned Hulu series depicting a dystopian nation called Gilead, in which women are relegated to sexual slavery.

Atwood’s work has become increasingly popular among feminists who see Gilead as an accurate reflection of modern day patriarchal society.

Vera said that she has not listened to the audio recordings of the class event, “nor do I know how they have been obtained, since that is not allowed, and the lynching in the press and networks seems to me very disproportionate,” she stated.

In addition, Vera also spoke of her work Matria a thesis in which she proposes slogans of matriarchy, which were “applauded by some and criticized by others”, which she encouraged to write her own thesis.

The teacher explained that “this debate is within a recreation of the story of La Criada, a must read for fourth quarter. I tell them that I am writing a book called Matria and they ask me some aspect and I tell them, they also make contributions”.

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