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.
As she should.
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…
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
And its happening right here, right now. Fucking God damn. Sexism is still rampant in 2025.
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
You realise people can see your post history, right? Massively misrepresenting what happened might make you feel good, but it doesnt change the facts.
You were told multiple times that the assault was real. You were told multiple times that sexual assault is a massive problem in this area. In this comment thread, you even agreed with someone saying the exact same thing you were arguing against yesterday.
At risk of you not reading it, yet again, i shall once again reiterate: sexual assault is a crime that should be taken seriously. However, when you are in a position of power, your actions get analyzed with a higher level of scrutiny. In this case, it was discussed that there were multiple massive news stories that were important in Mexico, and that the timing on this was worth looking into as a possible distraction.
Jesus Christ, nuance for fucks sake. If you legitamately think that anyone is God’s chosen angel that can do no wrong and tell no lies because they are a woman, you are braindead. No one ever stepped up in support of the dude, he was universally condemned. No one said “well she shouldnt have been wearing that”
As the leader of a country in a turbulent period of time, your actions will be analyzed from every possible perspective. It does not matter you gender.
Your position is as ludicrous today as it was yesterday. But at least today you seem to realize that it needs defending. Nothing you wrote here is remotely convincing. You’re manufacturing the appearance of circumstantial evidence at absolute best and straining through a heap of passive sexism to do it. But at least trying to explain yourself is progress from your lame attempt at haughtiness in the other thread. Eat shit, y’all.
So this right here is a picture of you agreeing with what i just said
I’m still not going to debate you over whether or not i support women, my post history speaks for itself and i dont need to justify myself to you. But if youre going to continue posting factually inaccurate bullshit for sympathy points when theres actual real issues then yeah, imma call you out on it.Was this sexual assault? Yes. Does being undeniably sexually assaulted absolve her of all possible crimes, future, past, and present? You certain seem to think so, considering the mere discussion that there MIGHT be more going on WITH THE PRESIDENT OF MEXICO is sexist.
Youre not fucking reading at all, so yeah. Im not going to respond to you directly, but if i see your bullshit elsewhere ill call you out there too.
Edit:had to bold my last statement, they immeditely proved my point yet again.
What is it exactly that you think I agreed with?
And yes, son, we’re all aware of how the post history works. Stop posting pictures and be specific. Your credibility is zero with me and I’m not going to strain to pull your point out of a screenshot.
And suggesting she staged her own sexual assault is not holding a leader’s actions to a higher degree of scrutiny. It’s a disgusting accusation in a long tradition of discrediting female victims.
In capitalist America, president gropes you!
No body guards? How would someone even get this close (didn’t see the video)?
That was my question after seeing the video… and it’s mexico… no bodyguards? And please notice that I mean no offense to mexico and that I’m questioning this as a latin.
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…
I’m sure you have ample evidence to back up this claim.
Nah dude, he doesn’t need proof, she’s a woman, they always lie for favors, even as the president. /srs
You mean besides the news articles I linked? The ones with photos?.. No I don’t.
Edit: and because it’s usual for presidents to walk the streets without bodyguard… And more after one politician just got killed…
Se poco y nada de la politica mexicana, pero me acuerdo de alguna vez haber chateado con un mexicano que me dijo algo en las lineas de “te das cuenta de qué partido es el que está con los narcos, porque es el que gana las elecciones”.
No se que tan real es o no eso, pero si es así, te entenderia que la presidente ande sin guardia.
Para mí todos son iguales, solo que tal vez ahora me afecta más directamente con mi jefecita adorada en este momento. No les creo a ninguno.
For English speakers: to me all political parties are the same, maybe just this time it affects more directly with my grandma’s house. I don’t trust them
As we all know, women are never assaulted and only use it for cover ups.
Dunno who said that, I didn’t. Don’t put words in my mouth.
“Look, a woman is using this for benefiting herself, not to get any justice.” Is what you argued.
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” .
The late mayor also told a group of women in his city that, if their children were in the crime, “do not squeal if they are killed by the government in a confrontation.”
Imagine stanning for Milei like figures. Rest in piss mayor.
Wait until you find out about “el Bronco”
Reminds me of Benazir Bhutto as Prime Minister in Pakistan.
Her PPP party bombed Imran Khan’s cancer hospital a day after he announced his own PTI party.
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?
They are the neighboring county and the topic is sexual predators.
it’s the US defaultism, most users are from there, that bothers me too
Does she not have security crew to beat them up?
Oh no, Trump’s gonna enact more tariffs in retribution isn’t he.
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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.
