Spain distinguished students for insulting women
2022.10.06 09:05
Spain distinguished students for insulting women
By Tiffany Smith
Budrigannews.com – On Thursday, a dormitory at a Spanish university announced that several male students had been kicked out after being caught on camera yelling vulgar threats at a female residence across the street. The video went viral on social media and sparked widespread national outrage.
One person first shouts in the video from a window of Madrid’s Elias Ahuja residence, a nearby all-girls dorm in Santa Monica.
He says:
“Whores, come out of your holes like rabbits, you are fucking nymphomaniacs,” and he also says he will make the women give in at a “capea,” which is an outdoor party and amateur bullfight that usually involves a lot of alcohol.
The video then shows that dozens of the instigator’s neighbors turn on the lights and open the shutters to yell and chant in an extremely intimidating scene.
Pedro Sanchez, the Prime Minister of Spain, posted a tweet that read:
“We cannot tolerate such behavior that generates hatred and attacks women.” It hurts especially to see that the main characters are young people. Enough with the machismo!”
One of several private residences attached to Spain’s largest state university, Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), is Elias Ahuja. Room and board costs nearly $1,187 per month for residents.
The university stated that it would initiate an investigation and collaborate with other colleges to impose punishment on those responsible.
Regarding the incident that took place on Sunday evening, the director of the residence, Manuel Garcia Artiga, stated to the local radio station Cadena SER, “We radically condemn these statements, they are unacceptable and inexplicable.”
According to the state news agency Efe, a residence spokesperson, several of the perpetrators had been identified and expelled, with additional individuals following suit. No names have been made public so far.
Irene Montero, the minister in charge of equality, stated that a “culture of rape and sexual terror” must be stopped and that young people must be educated on the significance of consent.
All non-consensual sex is now considered rape in Spain, which recently enacted harsher penalties for such abusive language or behavior. That followed the so-called “Wolf Pack” case, which gave women’s rights demands more momentum.
After gang-raping a young woman at the Pamplona bull-running festival in 2018, five men who referred to themselves as a “Wolf Pack” were sentenced to prison for the lesser crime of sexual abuse.
