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Fifa suspends Luis Rubiales from all football-related activity over Hermoso kiss
(www.theguardian.com)
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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.
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.