Poison Kiss in Spain
Women's sport, including women's soccer, has reached remarkably popular levels of public acceptance despite the mediocre level of play, relative to men's play, because of many men bending over backward to make it happen. A male soccer official's exuberant kiss on the lips of his star player following a world championship game may not have been appropriate. However, neither should this onetime, non-sexual act have merited the official's resignation (firing), nor should the kissing incident have become a damper on what should have been a moment of joyful national celebration Better: the kissed player might have said the kiss was consensual while admonishing the coach of his error in private... thereby preserving a moment of national joy. Women should weigh carefully the difference between true sexual harassment and an innocent, non-sexual mistake, lest the men, on whom they depend to prop up their mediocre play, become less enthusiastic about helping them out.