With the intellectual preparation you have, you cannot try to “contextualize” your behavior. Everything that is not simply asking for forgiveness is unnecessary and turns against you.
First things first. Machismo and patriarchy do not commit crimes. There is no doubt that a sexist education in a society in which patriarchy has been present since time immemorial favors attacks against women’s freedom in general and against sexual freedom in particular. Hence the need to pay maximum attention in the educational system to this circumstance.
But machismo and patriarchy cannot be considered, in any case, not only an excuse, but even a mitigation of inappropriate sexual behavior in any of its possible forms of manifestation. There is never any justification for sexual assault.
Having made this general reflection, it has been a huge surprise for me to have learned of the behavior that several women accuse you of and that has given rise to a criminal complaint. But it was an even greater disappointment to read the letter in which you try to give an explanation for your behavior.
The letter, in my opinion, is as worrying as the actions attributed to you. That a person with the knowledge you have accredited does not understand that with said letter you are not only throwing stones at your own roof, but that you are offending the women who claim to have been subjected to outrageous behavior by you, is literally unintelligible to me.
With the intellectual preparation you have, you cannot try to “contextualize” your behavior. Anything other than simply asking for forgiveness is unnecessary and turns against you.
A judicial process, if the court decides so, could become an ordeal for you, but it would be worse the longer it takes you to recognize the absolute lack of justification for your behavior. In this case, it will not be for the women whom you have allegedly attacked and for whom a process could make them relive a traumatic experience, but it would be unbearable for you.
They will be together and will have the solidarity of a large part of society. You are going to find yourself in the most complete loneliness, from which you will only be able to begin to emerge when you recognize your behavior and avoid justifying it in any way.
Before writing this article, I have reviewed all the articles I have published over the years about certain incidents in your political career. I have always valued your political performance very positively and I continue to stand by what I wrote in all of them.
Although we have not met many times, I think we have had an uninterrupted political connection for many years now. I would like to be able to keep it. For what it’s worth, I want you to know.
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