Crowdsurfing Is Not Consent

People should not need to be reminded of this, but the mere fact that a person is crowdsurfing at a concert does not mean that you get to grope them.

I also happen to think that crowdsurfing is dumb, and a great way to hurt yourself and others—plus, I didn’t realize it had endured as a thing past the ’90s. (People don’t mosh anymore, do they?) The no-groping rule stands, regardless.

So anyway, it was refreshing to see that Staind frontman Aaron Lewis (speaking of the ’90s…) stopped a concert mid-song when he saw a young female crowdsurfer getting groped.

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