“There is always a macho reaction that is called rape culture and that seeks to blame the victim”

2023-08-30 10:47:07

The acting Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, has suffered this Wednesday that when there are cases such as that of the president of the Football Federation, Luis Rubiales, who kissed the footballer Jenni Hermoso without consent, “there is always a macho reaction called culture of rape and that seeks to blame the victim”. Rubiales has sent a new video to FIFA as part of his maneuvers to try to defend himself in which the Spanish team is seen, including Hermoso herself, celebrating the victory on the bus and making some jokes about the forced kiss of the leader to the soccer player

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The Minister for Equality recalled in an interview on TVE’s Hora de la 1 that the focus should always be on the person who carries out the reprehensible behaviors and not on the victim’s reaction, and has framed the “sexist behaviors” that put into question He doubts the attack on Hermoso in the “rape culture.” “The most important thing is the social reaction that tells Jenny that she is not alone,” Montero highlighted.

Rubiales has used that video as if there was a contradiction between the versions of Hermoso. In her statement of August 25, the soccer player already stated that the situation caused her “a shock” due to the context of the celebration and later she felt the need to denounce it. “With the passage of time and after delving a little deeper into those first feelings, I feel the need to denounce this fact since I consider that no person, in any work, sports or social field should be a victim of this type of non-consensual behavior. I felt vulnerable and the victim of assault,” she wrote.

Montero has ensured in any case that “all the changes that are taking place and those that remain to come serve to advance a feminist sport and banish machismo from the sports field.” “Many times in these months we have been told, feminists from the Government, from the institutions, from the street, you are going too fast. I think we are going at the pace that our society wants”, the leader of Podemos has defended. “It is very important that there are profound changes that serve to combat machismo in sport, which is present in all areas of society; justice, the media, politics, culture ”, she has assured.