Sure, you could argue that Serena and Cardi acted out of character relative to the arenas they were in ? a nationally televised final of a major tennis tournament and a black-tie Fashion Week affair ? but they acted no different from men in similar situations. The difference is that this time around much of the resulting chatter was spent telling these two women how to behave. Therein lies the double standard.
Cardi B?s arena, Hip-Hop, is one that has a history of male rappers being exalted for beefing with each other as a rite of passage to solidify tough-guy personas. What Cardi did ? confronting a rival who allegedly insulted her newborn baby ? was simply follow in the footsteps left by a long history of rappers who have stepped to someone face-to-face.
When rappers like Kanye West and Drake spend weeks trading passive-aggressive barbs on social media, fans reacted by calling them soft for not just duking it out. Ja Rule and 50 Cent?s whole feud that dominated the early aughts was built around tough guys fighting it out in public. Hell, even Jay-Z, the messiah of respectability and business shrewdness, pleaded guilty to stabbing a guy in a fit of rage. He made a song about the whole thing.
The Source Awards, for instance, has a history of violent altercations involving male rappers. And there?s a larger discussion here we can have about whose spaces we feel its acceptable for Black people to fight in. Would it be okay if Cardi conducted herself like she were ?ghetto? at a so-called Black event, away from the white gaze? That idea is drenched in respectability politics, which is a bastion of self-hatred that Black women have unfortunately had to bear the brunt of for far too long.
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For Cardi B and Serena Williams, the demand for how Black women ?should? behave merely ruined their weekends. But for Sandra Bland and far too many other Black women, demands on their behavior were deadly.
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