Cardi B spoke on Instagram Reside in regards to the present. (Getty/Netflix)
Cardi B has spoken out in regards to the homophobia accusations after sharing her controversial ideas on the brand new Netflix collection, Child Reindeer.
Warning: the next story comprises descriptions of violence and sexual assault. Spoilers forward.
Richard Gadd’s seven-part collection, which has been critically praised, sees Donny (Gadd) coping with a serial stalker. The present additionally contains graphic depictions of sexual assault and rape.
On Instagram Reside, 31-year-old rapper Cardi B determined to weigh in on the hype across the collection, sharing a debunked perception that she thinks that some males solely realise they’re homosexual after experiencing male sexual assault.
Cardi B’s feedback about Child Reindeer are much like widely-debunked “cultural myths” – particularly, that boys abused by males should have attracted the abuse as a result of they’re homosexual, or they turn out to be homosexual consequently.
Nonetheless, the “I Like It” hitmaker has responded to the accusations that she’s homophobic, responding to a headline which learn: “Cardi B claims homosexuality could be brought on by sexual assault: ‘Not all people could be born homosexual’.”
The rapper stated that her feedback have been taken out of context, writing on X (previously Twitter): “Wow.. this headline is so deceptive for one thing that’s so severe. I used to be speaking in regards to the present BABY REINDEER!! Right here’s the reside for CONTEXT.
“@ElliottWilson let me take over cuz ya writers gotta do higher!!”
On the time of her Instagram reside, Cardi stated: “I watched this present, the Child Reindeer and I haven’t been capable of end watching it as a result of I believe across the fourth or fifth episode it traumatised me a bit bit.”
She went on to clarify the plot of the episodes she’d seen: “The man needs to be a comic, he meets this man, he advised him he was going to place him on. The man launched him to medicine and whereas he was drugged up, the man was raping him. They began f***ing him and sucking his d**okay and all this bizarre s**t and due to that, the man began discovering out that he was entering into that.
“Girls undergo a number of sexual assault however we don’t hear or see what males expertise after they expertise sexual assault. It shocked me.
“I’ve a cousin I simply knew since he was like 2 years previous, like ‘yo he’s homosexual.’ And he’s homosexual, I really like him. Then there [are] males who get sexually assaulted after which they discover out that they’re homosexual and a few individuals are all the time going to be judgemental.
“When you see that episode, the man was straight, he obtained raped, then he began going by these feelings.
“He needed to determine what he likes, all as a result of he obtained sexually assaulted,” Cardi B concluded.