On Tuesday morning, Luis Rubiales has sat down, with very open legs, in front of Judge José Manuel Clemente Fernández-Prieto at the National Court. He had to declare in his trial and has done so for just over an hour. In his responses to Prosecutor’s Office, lawyers and lawyers, and also to the magistrate, he has been, somewhat reduced, Rubiales himself shouted five times “I will not resign!” In the Assembly of the Royal Spanish Football Federation one day before FIFA would disable it, and the same one called “idiots”, “pringaos” and “fools of the ass” to those who criticized the kiss not consent to Jennifer Hermos For him it was nothing more than “a sign of love.”
He has insisted that he “has happened other times” with men, in which he “mistaken” but it was because he did not have “cold blood”, that he did not have to have “let the emotion”, that he, “what there was Fact, it was not what others believed that he had done ”, that he did not write or issued the RFEF statement, subtracting importance from the case but since Jennifer Hermos had made” fantastic “statements -” because it is the same thing I think ”, He added,” he says to the Communication Director.
Rubiales, at that time, has reproduced all widely extended and explained stereotypes not only of the culture of rape, but of what patriarchy means. From blaming the irrefenability of the acts to emotions, to be wrapped with what they think what he understands as his peers – “the three thought the same, that it was nonsense, the three told me,” he said, referring to three politicians from those who have not given the name – or justify an act based on the degree of right that gives on another person the level of relationship – “We know each other many years ago” -.
They are common in these crimes, whatever the severity of the fact, several issues.
One, and perhaps the most important for being the most prevents that they are not produced, is the inability to perceive the abuse and violence that is exercised over others by who exercises them, so as not to conceptualize it as abuse or violence, to naturalize both, and therefore, reproduce them. It is not an exempted or justification, but the finding of how a structure works in which men they can Doing what they want at every moment without taking into account the other because they do not see it as another but as something that, in some way, belongs to them, about what they are entitled.
There are multiple studies on the perception of violence against women. The results consistently show the same thing: that men perceived violence against women as less serious than women. They also reflect, also consistently, negative relationships between the perceived gravity of violence and favorable attitudes towards violence, that is, the more patriarchal and macho biases are internalized, the less is able to perceive violence. And also that violence, sexual, is perceived as less violence when who perpetrates is a couple, a friend, someone known.
The second of the usual issues in this type of crime is to make the responsibility of these facts in the other person, completely or shared; They are the phrases that have been reproduced in judgments so many times and then have been embodied in the sentences: the “she wanted”, “she also wanted”, or the “was the two thing.” “[Le dio el beso] To someone who inspired me tenderness because I was sorry for having failed a penalty, ”said Rubiales. It is using – and using is the correct term – to the other to explain, argue or excuse your own behavior. To make a discharge of responsibility that eliminates the possibility of crime from the equation: if there was consent, there is no aggression.
The second, another of the most widespread tactics in these processes: after. Although on the innumerable occasions, the science – given the analysis of the experience – has shown that the subsequent behavior of the victims, and above all the immediate, does not correlate directly with the fact itself, Rubiales has used the after : “He laughed and giving me clapped on the sides”, “She served as a decoy to take me to keep the players”, “in the media I was being treated differently than the one that the player herself had manifested.”
The third, undermine the credibility of the victim through two tremendously extended actions: more or less direct filter than the victim or lies – “it was not until a few days [después] which changed version ” – or wants revenge. When his lawyer asks if the players a few months before the World Cup asked him to cease Jorge Vilda, he replies that. When his lawyer asks if he ceased it, he answers no. And he adds something else: “And they told me that there would be consequences.”
And another, more of background, which is how power is reflected. One that also travels when men appropriate women’s voice, literally and metaphorically. Rubiales has also done it on multiple occasions and in different ways.
The metaphorical, when he seizes the story of Jennifer Hermos ‘Okay”. And the literals, the clearest, when she has reproduced, on several occasions, phrases she delivered during later hours. “Leave me calm, this is one thing between two friends,” she said she said. “They are anecdotal facts,” she said she said.
In Rubiales’ communication there was shape and background, verbal and nonverbal language through which a very defined model of the masculine construction is manifested: the half smiles, the turns with the tilted head, the tone of the voice, the modulation , the words that are used, the times that frown is not with anger but with condescension, how much amplitude of movement of arms there are when explaining.
A construction that is that of oneself – in masculine – in an ecosystem prepared to make men wish, ambitions power, to give it to them and so that they move comfortable in it, so that it is their natural space, the one that has been been designated historically, which the system itself has fed and to which they constantly feed back so as not to leave it, to accommodate as much as possible in it.
“Where was it on the plane?” The prosecutor asked him. “In the front row, in the center. To my right Rafa [Rafael del Amo]on the left the Secretary of State, more to the right the male coach, and [Jorge] Vilda behind me, ”he answered. Everything, what he has said, what he has not said, how he has said it, is the drawing of someone who is not accustomed to being in a place, but to occupy it. And that others are walled.
