Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) President Luis Rubiales has admitted he “made a mistake” by giving Spain star Jennifer Hermoso a surprise kiss on the lips after the 33-year-old received her gold medal following the team’s Women’s World Cup final victory over England on Sunday.
Rubiales has faced widespread criticism for the incident, with politicians and journalists labeling his behavior “unacceptable” and “simply disgusting.”
“surprise kiss on the lips”
That’s a really interesting way to spell sexual assault.
That’s actually the factual way to describe it
Let’s break it down
Is it a fact that it was a kiss? Yes
Is it a fact that it was a surprise (to her)? Yes
I’m not denying this is sexual assault but there is a difference between a fact and a judgment.
You seem to be under the erronious assumption that any man is allowed to give any woman a kiss whenever he wants to. You are wrong.
If you’d like to know how wrong you are, come try and kiss me on live tv without my permission and see what happens.
I have never said that and you are reading what you want to read from my comment.
The FACT that the kiss was given without consent makes it a sexual assault. But still, it’s a surprise kiss and that’s a fact.
I wasn’t trying to say more than that so maybe tone it down.
I’m probably a better feminist than you are. That is not a fact, that’s a judgement
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You are assuming the things she has to say to keep her job are her opinion.
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Also untrue if you think it through. Anything other than pressing charges independently of her public statements is creating an environment where your boss might sexually assault you on live TV and get away with it so long as he has the power to end your career.
I think what the other people are alluding to is the power imbalance here is what takes this from inappropriate to scandalous - that’s my take on it, anyway…
I feel the need to clarify that inappropriate is still an offence and technically this is assault, but the level of pressure to not make a scene is the ‘multiplier’ (on the scale of wrongness - sorry, my metaphors aren’t working today)
Yes and no. Victims aren’t always free to speak their minds. She said she didn’t mind but this is regarded as a preservation tactic due to a sexist environment.
When did she say she didn’t mind? I saw the video of her saying she didn’t like it
I’m sorry, the quote correct is this. So she’s not saying she didn’t mind, but more like ‘let’s move on’, which is a similar downplaying of what happened. The point was that her opinion isn’t all-important, because she has an interest in keeping her career.
The president and I have a great relationship, his behaviour with all of us has been outstanding and it was a natural gesture of affection and gratitude.
A gesture of friendship and gratitude cannot be gone over so much, we have won a World Cup and we are not going to deviate from what is important.
She says she didn’t like it for once. She’s gay, second. And he even entered the women’s change room after. The dude is clearly a weirdo creep
