Men: stop assuming you can touch women without asking first.
For reasons that presumably involve #sexism, #entitlement, and #patriarchy, French tennis player Maxime Hamou decided he had every right to forcibly clutch and kiss female reporter Maly Thomas while she was covering the French Open on live TV.
Hamou is being investigated by the French Tennis Federation, and has since apologized, while Thomas says she "would have punched" him if they weren't on live television. In other words, she would have practiced self defense since she was being accosted by a strange man.
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