Both in the fact of touching the reporter’s ass and in the gesture afterwards, of stroking her head condescendingly, there is a lack: respect.
It is unlikely that the individual who assaulted Isa Balado will come to understand anything. Rubiales syndrome. The blow to the rear is serious. It has been talked about a lot. But the caress of the hair with sufficiency from him to her is also socially reprehensible. Few mention it on the networks, but the gesture denotes a girl, it was nothing; one go, baby, forgive me; one will soon pass; one has been a downer, but that’s not enough; one does not need to take things out of hand; I’m sorry, but if you hadn’t provoked me by being on the same sidewalk as me…; a moixaina to a dog; zero respect, and yes, Nacho Abad, I’m a moron, as you say. The hair trick is a textbook fauxpology.
Abad is the presenter of En boca de todos, the program that picked up the event live. Having as a presenter someone who in reality is not, who does not have a license, allows us not to demand the professionalism that would have prevented the viewer from hearing him say “this guy is stupid, this guy is an idiot”.
“I didn’t touch your ass. Or yes? Sorry, I didn’t want to touch your ass”. Deny the evidence. Then he accepts it, but just a little. “Tell the truth”, later replies the aggressor to the reporter. She is the mother of Rubiales claiming her in Hermoso. It’s that gag of Faemino trying to convince the Cansado policeman that he’s not smoking in a prohibited area while blowing more smoke than an Apache telegram.
However, the show and the host fail when they pull the gum and reconnect with the reporter, uncomfortable from the moment she knows with a nervous laugh that the ass-kicking would make her go viral. “It made me quite nervous and I don’t like it…” says the journalist just before the individual approaches her again. It should have been protected and not exposed anymore. @MarcCebrians points it out. Respect is also not making her go through the trance again.
“It’s a television program taking advantage of a sexual assault on its reporter”, assures @joeldiazbrah.
The assailant is arrested. The Police distributes images to X. “Do you touch a woman’s ass in the street? You went to the dungeon in handcuffs. Wonderful”, says @NachoCarretero. At least Faemino is saved from the dungeon by having been a reader of Kierkegaard. The other, not even settling his head would stop thinking with his ass.
Perhaps there are those who consider the arrest to be exaggerated. It is hyperbolic to feel unpunished by attacking in front of a camera.
