Stephen A. Smith Saying He’d ‘Divorce’ Serena Williams Is Simply as Chilling as Trump Trolling Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift getting booed was not the one second of high-profile misogyny on the Tremendous Bowl. After Serena Williams made a cameo during Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show, ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith remarked that if Williams was his spouse, he’d go away her. However she’s not!

Some backstory: Williams and Drake have been briefly romantically linked in 2011, however have had public feud with each other since then. Within the lyrics to his diss observe towards Drake, “Not Like Us,” Lamar references the feud, rapping, “higher not converse on Serena.” Each Lamar and Williams are from Compton and the observe accuses Drake of making an attempt to carry out their shared tradition. Therefore, one motive Williams was C-walking on stage, one other being how loudly she was criticized for doing the identical dance at Wimbeldon.

However by some type of patriarchy calculus, all Smith appeared to see was a girl disrespecting her husband, in some way. “If I am married and my spouse goes to hitch trolling her ex, return to his ass,” Smith said on First Take. “’Trigger clearly you do not belong with me. What you fearful about him for and also you’re with me? Bye. Bye.”

For the file, Williams’s husband Alexis Ohanian has already spoken up in support of his wife, however that is probably not the purpose. The purpose is that Smith could not appear to see Williams outdoors of her relationships with males. Contemplating the truth that Williams is extensively considered one of many best athletes of all time and Smith is a longtime sports activities journalist, he actually ought to know higher. What would Smith’s commentary have been if Williams hadn’t been married? That she was simply looking for male validation? That she was a loopy ex-girlfriend?

Evaluate, additionally, Smith’s remark about Williams to the crowd booing Taylor Swift. Probably the most beneficiant interpretation of the group’s response to seeing Swift on the jumbotron is that these have been Eagles followers and Swift was supporting her boyfriend’s workforce, the Chiefs. So, the group was mad at Swift for supporting her boyfriend? What would folks have mentioned if she was supporting the Eagles, her personal hometown workforce? Would Stephen A. Smith threaten to hypothetically go away her ass as effectively? And never simply the boos, however the reactions to the boos. On social media, commenters wrote that she deserved the hate, that people are tired of her, and so forth. Even Trump reposted the video. (Notably, Serena Williams tweeted a message of support for the pop star in actual time.)