Groping, obscenities and nonconsensual kisses: what female fans face at World Cup
Moscow — Complaints spreading on social media by fans, reporters and officials at the football World Cup have cast a spotlight on sexist behaviour during the competition in Russia. Here are some of the issues: Clips have spread online of fans from various countries singing obscene songs to female visitors and locals or making them repeat obscene phrases. Russian campaigner Alena Popova launched an online petition against Brazilians filmed singing a song about female genitals to a Russian woman. It has collected more than 70,000 signatures. The Colombian foreign ministry in a tweet condemned one clip of a fan teaching Japanese women to repeat misogynistic phrases in Spanish. Some officials have been criticised for sexist comments. Argentina’s football association apologised for issuing a World Cup handbook featuring a section on how to flirt with Russian women. Russian legislator Tamara Pletneva said Russian women should refrain from sleeping with visiting World Cup fans to avoid bec...
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