This week country crooner Tim McGraw was caught on tape – not only swatting away the hand of a fan who tried to grope him, but slapping her across the face to boot.
Tim McGraw may have had a good reason for getting aggressive with a fan.
‘At the end of the night during the encore, Tim was singing out in the audience and someone firmly grabbed onto his leg and wouldn’t let go as he was moving through the crowd,’ his rep told ABC News. ‘He instinctively swatted to try and keep them from ripping his jeans — which they succeeded at doing! — and so he could get to more fans who were trying to slap hands with him before the end of the show.’
(ABC News, July 18, 2014)
But I am shocked and appalled at the way the media are defending his prissy reaction. After all, McGraw clearly invited this kind of attention, appearing on stage, as he did, dressed more like a Chippendales dancer than a country singer.
But it seems disingenuous at best for him to behave like one of those famous male strippers, and then flinch with chaste indignation when female fans treat him like one. I mean, what else should he expect when he struts down into the audience and begins gyrating his newly cross-fit body, which he barely covers with skimpy t-shirts and fashionably tattered jeans so tight he might as well be wearing lululemon yoga pants? Surely he was asking for it. No?
I hope the instructive, role-reversal irony here is not lost on any of you … men.