James Finn
Aug 27, 2023

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I can only imagine the uproar if the Spanish football president had kissed a male player like that. Nobody would have questioned that the act was inappropriate and violating. Men are presumed to enjoy inviable bodily autonomy, aren't we?

If he'd kissed a male player, I can only imagine the uproar that would have ensued. "Get that nut out of his position!" might well have been worldwide consensus — appropriate consensus because it would have demonstrated that he doesn't understand personal boundaries or respect personal privacy.

So why, when the person he kissed is a woman, are so many people jumping up to defend him?

Those people are telling us they don't believe women are entitled to the same boundaries and privacy as a man.

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James Finn
James Finn

Written by James Finn

James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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