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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.

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.”

  • Kata1yst@kbin.social
    82·
    10 months ago

    “surprise kiss on the lips”

    That’s a really interesting way to spell sexual assault.

    • pedro@lemm.eeEnglish
      31·
      10 months ago

      That’s actually the factual way to describe it

        • pedro@lemm.eeEnglish
          51·
          10 months ago

          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.

          • girlfreddy@mastodon.social
            11·
            10 months ago

            @pedro

            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.

            • pedro@lemm.eeEnglish
              11·
              10 months ago

              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

        • schroedingershat@lemmy.world
          21·
          10 months ago

          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.

    • qevlarr@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      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.

    • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      31·
      10 months ago

      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)