Akon defends parenting in absentia: "Attending kids' recitals is a white man's thing"

[eigengrau]

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[therearewords]

I'd tell you to use a cut, but we needed new posts.

[xtinkerbellax]

If you have the time to show love? Yikes.

And don't get me started on the need to conquer the world, I honestly can't stand men with that goal at this point in my life, it ends up completely eclipsing being a good person in my experience.

[pi_lady]

He's also full of shit, he's not conquering anything, he's a fraud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akon_City,_Senegal

[cassismagic]

[my_moloko]

I don't get that at all! I also notice it on dating shows, especially Love Is Blind, all this talk about "Let's conquer the world together" and people specifically stating they want to be in a power couple like...wtf is all that? It's weird and gross and seems like yet another sad consequence of people mistaking capitalism for genuine goals.

[joyriders]

oh wow. the headline was bad, but it didn't even scratch the surface at how bad it got.

that is some end stage toxic masculinity.

[marywebgirl]

It just kept getting worse and worse.

[sweetwaterlane]

My jaw was dropping. I couldn't believe how much worse it got the more he spoke.

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[dadeepish]

Fascinating mix of trad (women exist to raise children) and late-stage capitalist hedonism (children with different mothers without marriage, children are successful if they are functioning “inputs”). Utterly incoherent worldview serving one purpose: Akon continues to do whatever he wants.

[promisering15]

M*n were a mistake

[theoryofwar]

[evilgerbil]

I can only hope they don't. It will be unfortunate if they grow up emulating this man and his stone age beliefs.