Impunity and Julio Iglesias

It's sad to read the witnesses of the women who denounce the alleged abuses of Julio Iglesias published by Eldiario.es and not feel surprised, that the events explained are perfectly plausible, that they don't surprise us in the slightest. Which doesn't prevent, of course, the shock caused by some chilling details about the system of exploitation to which he subjected his victims. We could have easily deduced, from how he spoke of the ladies and how he treated them in public, that the Latin lover He was, in reality, an unscrupulous predator. But that's how these inveterate seducers are; they can't help it. They have such sexual prowess that they have to go around the world sleeping with anyone who crosses their path. It was one of the things the singer was admired for worldwide: for being a conqueror without anyone questioning what his conquests thought. And what must they have thought? What an honor, what a privilege to be chosen by a man who could have them all, with success, money, and power. What could they say, barely reached adulthood, when, in the middle of an interview, he made comments about their appearance, asked them if they had a boyfriend, or planted a kiss right on their lips? With the scandal of the accusations, television networks have compiled the most shocking moments of the man, because they constitute outright assaults committed live before an audience that laughs, applauds, and celebrates this normalized violence. Who could say a word if he was like that? You know, men. Seeing the images of kisses reminded me of all the disgusting strangers, the flexibility women's necks acquire from doing the cobra, all the strategies we've had to adopt to avoid those who think they're good lovers when they don't have the slightest idea what good sex means, which always begins with...

As always when the accused is a public figure, voices have quickly emerged to defend him. "He touches everyone equally, men and women," said a former manager of Iglesias. Of course, did he sodomize men too? Did he also take them to get tested for sexually transmitted diseases? Did he also shove his tongue down their throats? A close friend said he had never seen anything the witnesses described. You know how it is, the blindness that comes with admiration, self-serving or not, that makes you not see a thing up close. Like the neighbors who find out from the news that the man in apartment 3A is a murderer. "He seemed like a completely normal person," they would never have imagined. Except that in this case, the murderer was brandishing his weapons in front of millions of people. And all that was missing was Ana Obregón, known for inseminating a poor woman with her son's sperm to have a "clean" daughter on demand. She came out doing what always happens when there's an accusation: questioning the victims' word. How much did they get paid? Poor, brown-skinned women, they must be liars who cast doubt on the man's honor from head to toe, even though she herself didn't know he'd engaged in this kind of behavior. It's just bad luck that Anita never sees specimens like this. She didn't see Lequio as an abuser, not even when he himself defended the occasional slap, she didn't see Epstein's pedophilia, and now she hasn't seen the self-proclaimed one either. rogueThis demonstrates that one of the pillars upholding the structure of impunity for gender-based violence is the complicity of women, the ever-shortsighted female arm in the face of male power, those who look the other way or even supply the perpetrator. Be that as it may, the climate of impunity that accompanies the famous and powerful ultimately establishes a truly medieval right to the thigh.