'But on the spectrum of sexual crimes, dropping the paw in such a manner is at the very lowest level. This incident, as told, should not be conflated with serious sexual assault.'
He’s 27, an Oscar nominee, and already one of the most famous actors ever to come out of Ireland.
“As we posed for it, she put her hand on my a**,” he said. “I thought it was an accident so I moved away. But the hand followed. The Kildare star described fame as 97% really nice, but said the other 3% was “somebody grabbing my ass”. By all accounts it was an upsetting incident for him personally and he asserted himself, which is the main thing.And I wonder if we lose our proportion, will it end up diluting the gravity of sex crime in the public perception? To be very clear – it’s not a good idea to grab someone’s bum without their consent, and classifies as groping.
In Ireland, the Department of Justice ran a €1million ad campaign telling us that everything, from the woman in work resting a hand on your shoulder to a fella trying to chat you up at a bar, was sexual harassment.
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