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What a nasty spiteful world we're letting them create with the misrepresentation of movements like #metoo and blacklivesmatter.
It's classic divide and conquer tactics.
We're so busy fighting amongst ourselves nowadays issues that really matter get swept under the carpet. They are not even talked about.
Along with the unwelcome kiss, he slapped her arse as she walked off-stage and grabbed his crotch in celebration while standing with the Queen and Princess of Spain.
Still, the Spanish FA are backing him up and, somewhat ludicrously, trying to claim that Hermoso started it all.
Trial by media and social media simply has to stop.
When 79 of your co-workers (every one of them more important to the team than you are) all walk out on you ... Scumbag, it's not them. It's you.
Do you think it's right that this is the lead story on the news?
The fact that he is backed by the Spanish Football Association also demonstrates what a bunch of scumbags they also are.
This should have been a celebration of women's achievement in a male-dominated sport. He made the story about him.
It needs to be in the news to shine a massive spotlight on the much wider issues.
I'd say it's a bit mild.
2: Given that sport stories regularly get to be the lead stories on the news, yes of course it deserves to be there. BUT I do not think it's right that sport stories get into the news in the first place. News is supposed to be for important stuff, stuff that matters. Sport, generally speaking, doesn't matter a damn. But then again, you could argue that a revolt by so many players against an entrenched, entitled scumbag administrator is newsworthy in itself, regardless of the triviality of sport in general.
The situation is all of his own making but it's hardly front page stuff.
Now actually he DID apologise, but women's rights are a sensitive situation in Spain, and this has stirred them up, so he was told he should resign, now he is refusing, and in fact going after the player in question accusing her of lifting him up (which isn't sexual, so I've no idea where he thinks he will get with that).
As for sport not being as important as other things, that's not an opinion shared by huge chunks of the world, but also this women's world cup has become a crucible for women's rights globally. The teams put on a great show on a global stage for a tiny fraction of the money their male counterparts get. Hell the England team was even screwed over by US officials, if that isn't equality with the male game I don't know what is (that's a joke, BTW...)
If you are in a senior public job exposed to the world, and you choose that moment he choose to inappropriately behave towards a woman, you will find yourself in the flames. He could have just resigned and quietly come back in a year or two like pretty much everyone else in the same situation does, but he's chosen to die on this hill.
As for the "MSM" response - come off it - it IS a huge story not about sport but about the entitled, aggressive and inappropriate way powerful men feel they can behave around women.
They could make the story every day "capitalism is evil" or "climate change is killing us all" - and both of those things are true, for me and probably for many, but that is not how the news cycle works.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/aug/26/spain-football-federation-threatens-to-sue-protesting-female-players?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
This was a huge platform for women and women's football, but because this guy is a twat, the achievement of the team has become a back ground event to his actions.
Ridiculous and out of place in todays world. He shouldn't even have a choice, he should be gone.
Try this transcript from 2005 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-37595321
I'm not saying the Rubiales incident is front page news, but ignoring it or relegating it to page 17 is definitely not the right action either.
Was she a scumbag?
But men tend to welcome unsolicited attention from women more than women do from men.
Also guessing neither of you were high profile people representing your country on the world stage at the time.
2. Can you imagine the sheer OUTRAGE if someone asked whether Hermoso 'enjoyed it'?
3. No, I didn't.
When did you last see the President of the FA rub his crutch and stick his tongue down the throat of a male footballer at a Football Final??
If people really think un unwarranted kiss, arse slapping and crotch grabbing are okay in this or any other arena, then I do despair.
We always have this woke / MSM shit every time something people don’t like or agree with. The media have always blown everything out of proportion, doesn’t make it right.
I know the difference mate
My sons gf is Spanish and whenever her family come over they snog your faces off as soon as look at you