Cam Newton’s remarks on women needing to know ‘how to cater to a man’s needs’ draws scorn on social media

NFL star Cam Newton got here below hearth on social media Monday for feedback he made about ladies.

Newton appeared on the “Million Dollaz Value of Sport” podcast on Sunday. The veteran quarterback was requested about his upbringing towards the start of the present, and he began to speak about his household and the way he was raised by the “excellent instance of what a person was” in his father.

“My mother and father had been collectively for 36, 37 years now, and it’s a good looking factor. I grew up in a three-parent family — my mother, my father and my grandmother. And I knew what a lady was. Not a foul b—-. A lady,” Newton mentioned, including that to him a “unhealthy b—-” was an individual who “regarded the half” however didn’t “act the half.”

“And it’s quite a lot of ladies who’re unhealthy b—-es and I say ‘b—-es’ in a method to not degrade a lady however simply to go off the aesthetic of what they deem as a ‘boss chick.’ A lady for me is dealing with your individual however realizing how you can cater to a person’s wants. I believe quite a lot of occasions if you get that aesthetic of like ‘I’m a boss b—-, I’m a this, I’m a that,’ no child. However you may’t cook dinner. You don’t know when to be quiet. You don’t know how you can enable a person to guide.”

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Cam Newton #1 of the Carolina Panthers leaves the sector after a loss to the Washington Soccer Group at Financial institution of America Stadium on Nov. 21, 2021 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Newton mentioned he didn’t wish to sit behind the mic and criticize ladies however wished the “males to start out being males.”

“That sucka s— shouldn’t be rewarded,” he mentioned. “When an individual carries himself, social media smart, and it’s a fraud in actual life. Each one who acquired cash, each one who’s wealthy isn’t an actual one, and I believe that kinda will get misconstrued on this society now as a result of lots of people have cash, however they’re not real folks.”

His remarks irked NFL followers on social media.

Newton is at the moment an unrestricted free agent. He re-joined the Carolina Panthers in the midst of the 2021 season after just a few accidents left the group’s quarterback state of affairs in peril.

Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton warms up previous to an NFL soccer recreation in opposition to the Arizona Cardinals Sunday, Nov. 14, 2021, in Glendale, Ariz.
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He had 684 passing yards and 4 landing passes in eight video games.