The groping of Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum on a downtown street shone a bright light on the gender violence women face every day, but the country’s political polarization has tarnished what under other circumstances would seem a natural moment for national solidarity, analysts say.
The president has tried to use the assault to send a clear message that such behavior is not acceptable. She has explained why she decided to press charges against the drunk man; she used her bully pulpit to pressure the remaining states that don’t have sexual harassment on the books as a crime; and she talked about the need to make it easier for women to report such crimes.
But almost immediately political opponents accused her of using the incident to distract from another burning issue in Mexico: political violence. The previous weekend, a popular mayor in the western state of Michoacan was gunned down in public during Day of the Dead festivities. Protests against the violence were happening in several cities in the state and Sheinbaum was under pressure to offer new solutions for the state’s persistent violence.
How dare she?
Quite reasonably, that’s how. Sheinbaum on POINT, yet again.
Thing is, it reeks of being a setup, manufacture a scandal to distract and one of their most used cards is the misogynist one, whatever she or her government is criticised for is dismissed because “it’s because she is a woman so you attack her because you are sexist”.
You telling me someone managed to get that close in the middle of a crowd and the security did basically shit when she has never ever got close enough to anyone unless they are getting paid for it? Sorry, not buying it.
Also they are yelling “foul” because she has actively weakened and destroyed instances that should be protecting women, has berated and insulted civil organisations dedicated to the protection of women and is actively protecting pedophiles and rapists inside her own party, you can’t play that card if you are part of them.
What are you on about here
What you just read, she never gets close to anyone, there’s always a chain, a wall, she’s on a platform or something, even during disasters she never goes to where the people are.
The only times she does is when it’s something organised by her party so the access to those who can get close to her are their own people and those who were promised some spare change to cheer for her.
Contrary to what the propaganda from lemmy might have fed you, she and her party are hated, that’s why they are always overprotected and only appear in front of a controlled audience; this incident happened during a time when a small group is building up asking for people to organise and get them out of power before they remove more of our rights. So the news come here and tell me she, who never does this, did it, and somehow her security allowed someone to get that close from behind and grope her without thinking some angry citizen might take the chance to get her out of the picture? Ok, sure.
And the news say the opposition is yelling foul because this is a smokescreen… But omitted reminding everyone how the opposition said she keeps shielding pedophiles and rapists in her party and stepping on other women’s rights (both statements being true).
I’m not sorry I can’t bite the hook anymore, nor feel bad for someone who keeps taking every mexican’s rights away and shitting all over what real feminism is only to use it as a shield when it’s convenient.