My Take on the Britney Spears, Security Guard Incident
I don’t comment on celebrity news very often, but this incident with Britney Spears and this security guard — it made me think about my experiences with security guards — and her husband Sam Asghari’s statement on Twitter is what led me to write this post. Yesterday, it was reported that one of the security guards of Victor Wembanyama, the first overall pick of the NBA draft, slapped recording artist Britney Spears.
At first glance, I had to do a double take because I thought I saw that Victor hit her, but after reading the headline again, I realized it was one of his security guards. According to the initial story, she tapped him on his shoulder to ask for a picture. In an attempt to clear out numerous fans swarming the area, she happened to get slapped by one of the security guards.
After reading the story, it seems to me that the security guard overstepped his boundaries, and I’ve had run-ins with them myself doing these types of things. Thankfully, it wasn’t a situation where one of them attacked me, but I’ve had situations where they would tell me to move to or from a certain spot, and before I could do anything, they will try to physically move me as I were a child when you tell them to move and they’re being stubborn, so you have to physically move them, and I have had words with these guys about that.
Personally, I’m cooperative. I understand they have a job to do, so if they tell me move, I will move. For them to put or try to put their hands on me and physically move me is a problem. If I was resisting or being defiant, that would be one thing, but for one of them to go there before I do anything is overstepping their boundaries and abusing their authority.
Now, I want to address a statement by Sam Asghari released on Twitter. He said something along the lines of self-defense being unavoidable, but defense against any woman, especially his wife, is undebatable. My reply to is “like hell,” and bullshit. On top of that, it’s contradictive. So, self-defense can be unavoidable except when it comes to a woman? GTFOH!
He was uttering that one-sided, hypocritical “a man shouldn’t hit a woman under any circumstances” logic. That’s bullshit and I will never agree with that. It makes me ask the question, what makes them an exception? So, they can attack you, and you’re not supposed to defend yourself? Better yet, what if she has a weapon? What are you supposed to do, stand there and let her stab, impale or beat you to death? You’re not supposed to defend yourself because she’s a woman? Man, fuck y’all.
From what I read, Britney didn’t do anything to warrant that, and that’s not what I’m referring to. I’m referring to ones who want to be verbally and/or physically aggressive, but don’t want to get it back. There are consequences for your actions, male or female.
This is something I’ve been wanting to and will address more thoroughly in another post. I said this last year; I haven’t forgotten, and I have a feeling it might be the longest post I’ve ever written, outside of a short story or a sample of a book I released. This came to mind when I read Asghari’s tweet.
Also, it has come to my attention that she’s looking for an apology from…Victor Wembanyama! Why should he apologize? It should be the guy who put his hands on her, but I guess the idea is he represents Victor — or maybe represented after this incident. Who knows? At the end of the day, I honestly think this was made a big deal because it was Britney Spears. Had this been an “ordinary,” “everyday” woman, I don’t think it would’ve been this big of a deal.
