Men only touch each other on the palm of the hand, for the most part. Anything else is an invitation to a fight. Why do you think athletes slap each other on the ass to congratulate them? Because no man ever started a fight by hitting someone on the ass!
But if you grab someone by the shoulder, push them, or slap them up 'side the head you have assaulted them. If Tuberville had slapped me publicly or privately, I would have instantly cold-cocked the sonofabitch right there on national TV. My job wouldn't mean shit, my arrest wouldn't mean shit, I would never have let that go.
"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them." -- John Wayne