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Fifa suspends Luis Rubiales from all football-related activity over Hermoso kiss
(www.theguardian.com)
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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.
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.
You should join Luis Rubiales' defense 🤷♂️
How so? This kind of argument doesn't make sense to me - robbing a house is robbery, robbing a bank is still robbery. Unaliving an individual with a knife is murder, and unaliving an invididual by dangerous driving is still murder.
Each crime is looked at on a case by case basis in an ideal scenario - having the definition of one thing the same as another can not inherently harm victims affected by a higher severity of an identically named crime IMO
I'll take the bait because why not 🤭
Sexual assault is not just rape, that kind of thinking is really narrow minded in my opinion. The definition varies depending on where you live - this can include groping, slapping another's bottom, ogling, catcalling, rape, and more.
Being excited isn't a valid reason to cross someone's personal boundaries IMO. There is never a valid reason to cross someone's boundaries unless you're exempt, on those kind of friendly terms with them
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.