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.
Mexico sues sexual predators, US elects them
The difference between a third world country and Mexico
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.
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
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.
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Yep. If people don’t like DEI programs, they could always, you know, just treat women better.
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.
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
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.
She had guards with her. She was originally supposed to be driven around, but she decided to walk. Not sure how they got so close but this wasnt a planned trip.
As she should.
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.
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
He’s already in America.
Send him to worst America
Does she not have security crew to beat them up?
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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.
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.
Fyi, victim blaming sexual assault survivors for not doing more to protect themselves from men is totally unacceptable conduct.
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!
Oh you can’t handle people calling out your support of sexual assault? Shame.
Oh no, Trump’s gonna enact more tariffs in retribution isn’t he.
