If I was on stage (female speaking here) and a man sidled up behind me and started touching my nether region, I’d probably hit him. I’m not proud of that, and I hope I’d yell at him first, but chances are I’d reflexively hit the dude. I might even hit him really hard and then try to get back to the mic before I missed a beat. He is a performer, and it looked to me like he had no back-up. No security, no band, no nothin’ but him to make it a show.
Granted, he could have yelled at her first in the hope that it would scare her off, but in all fairness, she was sexually assaulting him.
Not sure I agree with you there. I think if a man had done it to a female performer that’s exactly what he’d be charged with. Or at least it’s what the media would call it.
Lol! But that’s clearly what she’s doing! She doesn’t walk up to him, she just sort of sidles over. (I think you’d like the word better if you heard it with a Virginia accent.)
Seriously though, I don’t mean to defend the punch. But I think it’s more understandable than most people are saying.
Good point. However, in the article I read where he apologizes for the punch/slap, nowhere does he say he felt threatened or that he felt he was being sexually assaulted.
His representatives said he didn’t know whether it was a man or a woman but Afroman himself says, *"‘These girls got on stage and I asked them to leave and I tried to keep rapping.’ * link
No pass from me. He should have let his security handle it. He hit someone and could have seriously hurt them and went right back to playing. Even IF I had felt threatened enough to punch someone, once I saw the person fall like that I’d like to think I would stop and make sure they weren’t seriously injured, or what exactly the situation was. He kept on playing.
That link has the punch from a different angle, and it looks like things could have been a lot worse if she cracked her head open on the corner of the riser right behind her. Yipes.
I didn’t grow up during that era of rock n roll. Did it have a reputation for an abundance of subject matter involving misandry or violence towards men?
