Akon says that women need to understand ‘their roles’
- Akon has angered a section of the online community with remarks that touch on the sensitive issue of gender roles.
- In an interview with Joe Budden on the Joe Budden Podcast, Akon suggests that ‘a woman can never compare with a man’.
- He goes on to say that ‘women in America do not create life, but they support the creation of life’.
- watch a section of the video below:
- The Senegalese-American ‘Lonely’ hitmaker added:
- “They aren’t competing with you or fighting for equality because they understand that men and women could never be equal. They understand their roles. The roles there and very defined and very clean, here (the US) even if I say, ‘play your role and I play mine’, they say, ‘What the f**k you mean play my role? what role?’…”
- The video, which has since gone viral, attracted mixed reactions on Twitter. Check out some of the comments below:
