Fran Rivera is not willing to be called sexist. The right-hander has come forward against the serious accusations of his brother Julián Contreras, who, in an interview in Lecturas, defined him as a "machista, classist and self-conscious" man.
His brother has not been the only one who has described him as sexist, an adjective that he has also received from the journalist María Patiño. In one of the Socialité programs, the presenter assured that the right-hander had said that his ex-wife Eugenia Martínez de Irujo was "a psychologically unstable woman" and that "he did not take care of her daughter."
Rivera denied it in his interview on Friday: "Look, she left me little notes on the windshield: 'I'm Patiño, I want to meet with you.' She left me her phone number. So, well, based on that, this woman is little credible". A statement that many have called sexist, including the journalist herself.
However, the right-hander denies the accusations. "I am being called sexist for what I said about this lady who criticizes me so much. For me, the fact that a woman writes a note, asks for a phone number or asks a guy out seems fantastic to me. What I don't think is that someone who wants to meet you then criticizes you," Rivera explained, in statements to Europa Press.
"I am not in favor of machismo. I am the least machismo there is in life. I want to take advantage, I don't want it to stop there," added the bullfighter.
Jorge Javier Vázquez has also charged hard against the right-hander. "That's what it's like to be handsome and a good person, that you're allowed to say truly outrageous things because you're part of what is known as normal: heterosexual, happy husband and father who loves his children. And sexist. Why try to delegitimize the professionalism of "a woman letting it slip that she was trying to flirt with him is not attacking María Patiño but rather attacking women," he explains in his weekly column in Lecturas.
