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

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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

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[+] too_high_for_this -25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should join Luis Rubiales' defense 🤷‍♂️

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

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