We had a saying in the Army: "equal rights, equal fights." If you're going to whip an icecube at some punk singer's face like a fratbro, then why shouldn't you expect to be treated like a fratbro?

If Mr Weasel had punched a man, would people care? No, of course not; we understand that periodic musician-on-fan violence is an integral part of the punk concert experience. It is part of the mystique, part of the cultural ritual. But a woman gets punched, and suddenly we fall back almost a century to the horribly primitive "Weaker Sex" narrative? I suppose next we are to believe that Ms Ice Cube needed a strong chivalrous man to step in and save her.

If one thinks this altercation was wrong because *violent behavior is bad*, then alright. If you'd rather that musicians and their fans comport themselves with dignity and civility, then that's a conversation worth having. But don't embrace double standards. Man, woman, or undecided, gender has nothing to do with this.

"Punching" might be a bit of an overstatement. That was more spastic flailing that happened to just barely connect.

I was on a field trip in 4th grade and found a Screeching Weasel button on the ground (just the iconic cartoon weasel, no name) and wore it for years and years before I knew that it was even a band. I guess he lives in my Alma Mater of Madison, WI, which means he joins the ranks of other forgettable icons like Shirley Manson (Garbage) and Milo Aukerman (The Descendents) - to be fair Milo actually did "go to college" and is a professor at the university. The other two probably just wear their own band t-shirts to bars and pretend they're still relevant.

If you're going to be in the front row at a punk show, you're kind of asking to be knocked around, no matter your gender. Was she a bitch for throwing ice cubes and spitting beer on the stage? Sure. Then again, if you're going to be a front man in a seminal punk rock band, surely you're used to it, and are asking for that treatment too. Axl Rose or Nickleback can stop a show because someone threw something on stage, but I'm sure some beer in the face is pretty low on the spectrum for Mr. Weasel w/r/t objects being throw at him. Fuck, I was playing a show in Lubbock Texas that actually had one of those cages so the bottles of beer would shatter before they could hit us.

You're used to it. You're "punk rock." Even if you're washed up and spend most of your time surrounded by 100 heavyset bouncers at Warped Tour, you've spent your time in bars like this one and should act professionally, because I dunno it's your job or something.

you could change the description to "punches a fan in the face" and it would still be an example of this guy being an asshole

The day the music (that sucks) died.

I've watched it three times and I'm still not seeing a punch in the face. I'm seeing a spastic flailing around of a guy with bad balance who sort of pushes his hand into a girls boobs.