Responses to Spanish football federation president Luis Rubiales’ unwanted kiss on World Cup-winning player Jennifer Hermoso’s lips tell us everything about how little our world respects the basic right of women to live in the world unmolested and safe in our own skin, writes Jill Filipovic.
It’s a rule most of us learn as children: Keep your hands to yourself. And yet it seems that scores of men can’t quite follow it, even — perhaps especially? — when the whole world is watching. The latest grabby guy is Royal Spanish Football Federation President Luis Rubiales, who gripped Spanish football player Jennifer Hermoso’s head during the team’s trophy ceremony and planted a kiss on her lips.
Most women, like most people, enjoy kissing romantic partners and sometimes children or other loved ones, but do not appreciate an unwanted head centimeters from theirs, unwanted breath hot on their face, unwanted lips smashing into theirs. It’s a violation. It’s gross. It’s appalling whether it happens in private, or in full view of TV cameras. In 2005, Greta Friedman, the nurse who was forcibly kissed by a sailor in Times Square, told an interviewer, “It wasn’t my choice to be kissed.
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