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Reason First: Mario Sexually Assaulted During Performance, Fans Call Out Double Standard

Mario Barrett addressed an onstage violation during his Detroit concert after a woman grabbed him, highlighting a serious double standard

By Skyler SaundersPublished 2 months ago 3 min read

It has been said it's a man's world but it would mean nothing without a woman or a girl. Is it a place for male dominance or is the malignant behavior of women overlooked?

Singer Mario performed in Detroit and received unwanted touching from a fanatic in the stands.

While he delivered one of his hits, this miscreant reached out and touched his private parts. Without hesitation, Mario slapped the woman’s hand away. A hand that had a wedding band on it, no less.

The Internet is champion once again. It is forever undefeated. Most women have shared their concern for this violator. The double standard about men touching women and women touching men is abhorrent. The former would warrant, of course, charges of sexual assault and potential rape. But just because a woman doesn’t possess the same anatomy as a man, their behavior is often excused.

Mario, ever the professional, finished the song and concert. He could have charged the horrific hag but decided against it.

If the opposite had happened, the concert goer would have been escorted out of the building with the cold steel bracelets of justice wrapped around his hands.

The worst part about it is the fact she will likely continue with her same antics. At other concerts, she will feel up on celebrated men and act like that’s okay. She will either change her ways or someone will call the cops on her.

When certain women feel the need to grope a man, it is because their morals are in disarray. They find the need to live out their fantasies by participating in unlawful conduct for the thrills.

These vicious females don’t understand boundaries. They lack the intestinal fortitude to restrain themselves and act like ladies. For them to continue to be on the side of wrong only illustrates their commitment to the nonsense.

Mario kept his cool, but he could’ve made a scene and exploded on this woman in anger. The consummate singer/songwriter simply finished his set and eased off the stage. If this is going to be a trend, it is necessary to train both young boys and girls not to grope or sexually assault other individuals.

Just like Ellen Degeneres who used to grind on audience members (most of them women) there has to be a precedent for curbing this kind of behavior.

To consider the issue of touching, it starts in childhood. When rearing a young boy or girl, it is paramount that parents and other leaders teach children to keep their hands to themselves. It is possible that many incidents of offensive touching go unreported out of fear. This starts at an early age and often manifests in adulthood in myriad ways.

One of them being the psychic scars of a terrible older figure that afflicts a child, especially a female one. She then grows up with the idea that it’s permissible to grab on to people who don’t desire their touch.

There is no defense for this pass given to this kind of assault. So the woman wanted to live out her fantasy. It ought to have included keeping her hands to herself.

This is a message to men but mainly women. No means no, no exceptions. If there’s a male performer on stage and he doesn’t elicit any touching whatsoever, sit down, fold your hands in your lap.

And the same goes for men, only that notion of men touching women is so odious and overplayed that women often don’t get reprimanded for their misdeeds.

In Mario, there can be found a gentleman. For that female in the crowd, she ought to get with the real world.

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