The Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, has criticized the president of the CEOE, Antonio Garamendi, for the "intolerable trivialization of sexual violence" in which he has incurred by ensuring that the criticism of the increase in his salary is "like when there is a rape and they say the girl was wearing a miniskirt", statements that he later rectified.
In an interview with Radio Euskadi, collected by Europa Press, Montero considered that "there are many legitimate criticisms" of Garamendi's salary "and what it represents, especially also with the political position they are maintaining regarding the increase in the Minimum Wage Interprofessional (SMI) and the salary of workers and workers".
"But, to talk about Mr. Garamendi's salary, it is not necessary to trivialize sexual violence, it is intolerable and I believe, in fact, that he has rectified it," he recalled.
He has also referred to the statements by the Goya winner for best newcomer, Telmo Irureta, who claimed the right to sexuality of people with disabilities and, along these lines, stated that prostitution "cannot disappear".
Irene Montero considers "it is very important that society be able to make the sexuality of people with disabilities visible, their right to sexuality", but she has stressed that "in no case should this debate lead to justifying the sexual exploitation of women".
"I think it is important that our society reflect on how we tend to have stereotypes about sexuality that reject or sell bodies that are not normative as undesirable. We talk about 'fatphobia' or the rejection of the bodies of people with disabilities ", has manifested.
In his opinion, "sexuality is a right" and he has also defended "the right to desire and be desired by people with disabilities." "It is an issue that seems very pertinent to me and very desirable for it to have visibility and social debate, but I forcefully say that this cannot lead, in any case, to justify and legitimize the sexual exploitation of women," she concluded.
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