Fifa has suspended Spanish FA president Luis Rubiales from all football-related activities following his conduct at the Women’s World Cup final in Sydney

  • @Hotdogman@lemmy.world
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    722 years ago

    Let’s not sugar coat this. It wasn’t a kiss, it was sexual assault. Don’t let these twats get away with this bullshit.

    • Isn’t that going a little far? Not defending the guy, it’s gross and super inappropriate. But a simple kiss is hardly sexual. Basically every child ever is kissed against their will by older relatives and nobody bats an eye.

      Fire the guy, ban him from football for life, but does he need to be arrested? He’s not going around groping strangers. He just apparently does gross, stupid shit when he’s excited.

      • @Hotdogman@lemmy.world
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        382 years ago

        Nope. It’s not going too far. You go ahead and randomly kiss a coworker or subordinate at your place of work in front of everybody to include customers. Let me know how quickly HR wants you in their office.

      • Well, let’s see how exactly it is that you feel when a man in a position of authority over you grabs you by the head and kisses you against your will. And I will have you know that neither of my children have ever been made to accept affection that they did not want because I learned from my upbringing, I didn’t just parrot it.

      • jorge
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        182 years ago

        Fire the guy, ban him from football for life, but does he need to be arrested?

        It is not up to you to decide. The Spanish law is pretty clear in this respect, and a non-consensual kiss is explicitly defined as sexual assault, period. And this is a very recent law that has been widely discussed and reported in media, so there is no chance that he didn’t know the legal consequences of his acts. He simply believed that his position of power would be enough to evade the legal consequences.

        • Please show me where Spanish criminal code defines what constitutes a kiss.

          The law doesn’t even define sexual assault beyond “unwanted sexual conduct”. And again, a kiss is not inherently sexual.

          Calling this sexual assault doesn’t help anyone, and actively harms victims of actual sexual violence.

          • @triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml
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            12 years ago

            Calling this sexual assault doesn’t help anyone, and actively harms victims of actual sexual violence.

            what “actively harms victims of sexual violence” is gatekeeping the definition of it, and normalising nonconsensual intimate physical acts. maybe spend some time researching the “real rape” myth, and its impact on reporting, investigation, and conviction rates.

      • @philpo@feddit.de
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        82 years ago

        He did not only kiss her - he also made remarks that he was gonna marry her next year in Ibiza and if I remember right something about a wedding night…

        It was a sexual assault.

        And btw: Kids should never be kissed against their will and it is not okay when older relatives do that. AT ALL

      • @socsa@lemmy.ml
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        52 years ago

        I bat an eye. I think it’s creepy as fuck when adults don’t respect children’s personal space