On Monday, North Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton left social media divided on his take on women during his appearance on a popular podcast. 

Newton stopped by Gillie Da King’s podcast Million $ Worth Of Game. The almost hour-and-a-half conversation touched on a plethora of topics including, his career and gender roles. The conversation between the 32-year-old athlete, Gillie and Wallo took an interesting turn when Newton offered his perspective on the difference between a “bad b*tch” and a “woman.”

“I grew up in a three-parent household. My mom, my father, and my grandmother. And I knew what a woman was. Not a bad b*tch,” opined. “A bad b*tch is a person who’s just, you know, ‘Girl I’m a bad b*tch, I’m doing this, I’m doing that.’ I look the part but I don’t act the part,”

“There’s a lot of women who are bad b*tches. And I say b*tches in a way, not to degrade a woman but just to go off the aesthetic of what they deem is a boss chick,” Newton added. “Now a woman for me is, handling your own but knowing how to cater to a man’s needs. Right? And I think a lot of times when you get that [aesthetic] of ‘I’m a boss b*tch, Imma this, Imma that.’ No baby! But you can’t cook. You don’t know when to be quiet! You don’t know how to allow a man to lead.”

And it was at that moment, that Rihanna’s internet lost it.

Some Twitter users agreed with Newton’s opinion.

 

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On the other hand, some folks on Twitter felt that Newton and his opinion could go to hell.

 

Ironically, Newton doesn’t appear to have such standards for himself. In February, he stated that he wasn’t ready to be a husband despite having four children with ex-girlfriend Kia Proctor, nor was it necessary to apologize for being a thot.

“The thing is that person that I was while we were having children together, I couldn’t be the best husband,” he said. “I wasn’t prepared to be a husband then.”

Newton continued, “We were both young. There was nothing, and still nothing I would never do for her. But at the same time, the person that she was when I met her, it wasn’t the person she was when I left her,” he said. “When I met Kia, and I say this protecting her, she wasn’t the one to be like, ‘I want to be married.’ I was more so the person. My parents been together 36 years. I know what marriage looks like: the ups, the downs, the trials, the tribulations.”

“I seen Kia really evolving into a woman where her standards were, ‘I ain’t just no baby mama,’” he said. “And when she kept putting pressure on me, I was like, ‘I don’t know if this is what I really want.’”

He elaborated on his whorish ways despite making a family with Proctor. 

“I was in Temptation Island. A football player, young, no, is not even in my vocabulary,” he said. “I just found myself in this downward spiral. Did she deserve better? I would humbly say yes. She did.”

“I was falling deeper into my own selfishness and realizing I gotta be better. ‘I hope you have the patience,’ which she did. And she was around me through a lot of success, a lot of downfalls, and I respect her for that to this day, but it never led to the ultimate, which was a ring.” 

He added, “To me, it’s not even an apology that’s needed. We just grew apart.”

Ok.