Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum has said she will press charges against a man who groped her during a public appearance.
Mobile phone footage of the incident on Tuesday shows Sheinbaum speaking to a group of supporters on a street near the National Palace in Mexico City. A man approaches her from behind and attempts to kiss her on the neck and place his hands on her body.
“My view is, if I don’t file a complaint, what will happen to other Mexican women? If they do this to the president, what will happen to all women in our country?” Sheinbaum said at a news conference on Wednesday.
You know it was staged, right? Everyone knows it’s a distraction from this. It isn’t the first time she does something to distract from the current events…
I know I’m going to get downvoted for this but it’s infuriating to live in México and you can’t criticize our government because all of you love that an empowered woman is in control… Most of México is a mess right now, cartels are in control, just last weekend I had a trip to my mother’s inherited grandmas house and in a small town and after a 6 hour trip we just went back because they control the town.
My mom said she rather lose her childhood home than our lives…
Are the federales lacking resources or intent? That assassination was clearly a message, I admittedly don’t know a lot about Mexican politics but is it possible to defeat the cartels or is it a competition of monopoly?
Morena, her political party, is very friendly to the drug cartels, AMLO (our last president) went to greet Chapo’s mom for example. He’s the one that created morena.
His ideology was “let them work and they won’t mess with you” .
In another thread about this episode people were saying the entire incident was staged by her to distract from other news. I got downvoted to hell for suggesting that it was anti-woman to believe such a conspiracy theory rather than acknowledge that a woman got groped.
The fact that she’s pressing charges should put the conspiracy theory to bed. Why would she take it into a courtroom for more attention if it was just a stunt to manipulate the press that week? I’m sure someone will double down on conspiracy theories to come up with an answer to that question…
It’s infuriating. A woman can be sexually assaulted, on video, in front of hundreds of witnesses, and some people will still insist it didn’t happen, or she staged it, or it was her fault somehow.
This is why we still need DEI. Jesus fucking Christ.
Sexism is believing it is okay to grope a woman and commit sexual assault.
Casual sexism is automatically assuming a woman (in power or not) who brings legal action against someone for committing sexual assault is doing so for attention or some other false ulterior motive.
Yes, thank you. It’s less overt of an assault on women then physically groping them, but it’s perhaps more insidious, because an environment of ignore-and-excuse puts ALL women everywhere at risk
She SAID she will press charges, but she lies daily for millions to see on TV every morning.
But go off, the staging is very convincing for someone who doesn’t know shit about our current political climate in México
I think it’s that #believeallwomen is a hard hill to die on. Any internet troll is a Google search away from proof that you shouldn’t blindly believe all women. It just reminds me of when Joe Biden had some allegations against him, and he got caught between a rock and a hard place: believe all women, just not this one.
Instead of belief, it’s about respect. Whether true or not, any accusation should be taken seriously and avoid sensationalism. It’s also about understanding your role. It’s easy for me to say all of this about a situation thousands of miles away; I have an infinitely small role. If it happens closer to home, to someone you know, belief may be a part of that role, but it still needs to come from a place of respect and understand of the situation. If religion is any example, blind belief doesn’t help anything but fuel division.
It’s not about blindly believing all women all the time. It’s about believing them by default, and as you say, taking them seriously. In this case they were willing to discard the evidence of their eyes in favor of some pretty far fetched conspiracy theory, and considered anyone who didn’t agree to be some naive idiot. And they paradoxically claimed to take sexual assault very seriously, while doing this. SMH
Not dismissing the idea that it might be for real, but random man being able to grope the literal President sounds kinda sus.
I’m not super into Mexican politics, but doesn’t she have guard on duty to prevent just that?
I’m glad you don’t automatically dismiss that she was actually assaulted (!!!) I mean that’s pretty much the bare minimum everyone should do. This was captured on video. You can view it for yourself. Her guards did intervene, just a step too late. That does not mean she staged it for attention.
But everyone would love to feel smart and come up with some alternative theory of what happened rather than contend with the sordid facts.
Maybe learn how the real world works before trying to control it.
The real world has laws against sexual harassment. Which is what she’s using. You are a fucking enabler.
Problem here is being among the public and not preparing for this scenario. That is reality.
“Just expect people to harass you all the time as a woman, we don’t need to correct for anything else.”
I’m starting you think you grope women in public when you can get away with it.
Good job assuming you know me.
It’s reality. Accept it or live in your bubble.
The reality of sexual assault? Yeah I know of it. Clearly you love victim blaming.
Good for you.
Wait, okay, so women should be aware that they could be groped or assaulted anytime they go out in public. I can totally agree; that’s a sickening and sad reality we live in - and it does happen. I think more men should be aware of just how common it is, too.
But what’s the point of your comments? You’re saying she should have been aware, and should understand how the world works, and that is reality and whatever but it seems like your implication is that she is wrong to be pressing charges?
She is a public figure. I’d expect she would be prepared for this scenario but apparently not?
And no I don’t think she is wrong pressing charges. This behaviour is disgusting. But it’s how the world works. She should’ve been aware of it and taken the proper precautions, especially in her position.
Brother, you’re victim blaming to the max. She’s just out and about and your answer to this event should be that this guy is the one that is wrong, instead of her being the one thats wrong because she didn’t prepare enough
On top of that, he puts all the blame on her, and not an iota on her security guards, who one would presume, in a country where assassinations are all too common, are there to protect her from all forms of assault, not just sexual assault. They failed badly at their job, and if there’s a woman who should have felt confident this wouldn’t have happened, it would be her.
As a public figure they should know better than to “be and and about”.
This smells more like a predetermined move to get the public on your side. As disguising it may be. I share no sympathy for either side.
Of course she has security walking around, but there’s only so much you could do.
Bigger question is, why are you so adamantly suggesting its her fault when instead its the guy who should not be touching other people in uncouth ways.
Do you think the President of a country should just stay indoors all the time?
You continue to push this “she should have known it would happen” idea. You’re paying lip service to how bad it is and how she’s not wrong to press charges but you keep weirdly pointing to “she should have expected this”.
Why?
Because that’s my opinion. Deal with it.
Anyway I’m done here. Bye.
What’s your opinion? You’re saying something unrelated to her pressing charges, implying a link to her pressing charges (either intentionally or not), and then not really denying the link you’ve implied 😂 Very weird behaviour!
In capitalist America, president gropes you!
Mexico sues sexual predators, US elects them
A sexual predator in Mexico was emboldened enough to grope the president in front of reporters.
And E. Jean Carroll did sue (and won a settlement from) Trump for sexual assault.
Let’s not do the “every nation is better than the US about everything now” thing.
The difference between a third world country and Mexico
Gangs are illegal in Mexico and corruption is something to be fought against
ICE gets 100k salary to beat up and kidnap people with masks in US
As she should.
Fucking disgusting, the audacity of that man is disgusting.
They should send him to America, he has solid change in a government position. /s
The woman president of Mexico gets groped and Lemmy still manages to post 5 comments only about US politics. Why must you shoehorn in that shitty country into every unrelated topic on Lemmy?
it’s the US defaultism, most users are from there, that bothers me too
They are the neighboring county and the topic is sexual predators.
He’s already in America.
Does she not have security crew to beat them up?
Oh no, Trump’s gonna enact more tariffs in retribution isn’t he.
