Her musings were spawned by the new Netflix series ‘Baby Reindeer.’
Cardi B is letting her thoughts fly when it comes to homo𝓈ℯ𝓍uality and how she believes some people become gay.
These latest musings were inspired by the latest show she’s binge-watching, the new Netflix series called “Baby Reindeer,” which tells the true story of a comedian Danny trying to get on his feet and make it big and winds up with a stalker.
(Slight spoilers ahead)
For context, one of the major series plot points is that in Danny’s quest to figure things out, he winds up being drugged and repeated 𝓈ℯ𝓍ually assaulted and raped by a man who was supposed to assist him in his career. Because of this, Danny begins questioning his own identity and 𝓈ℯ𝓍uality and further explores 𝓈ℯ𝓍ual relations with both men and women in an effort to figure himself out and navigate
It’s that part that made Cardi reflect on the scarcity of stories from men’s perspective when it comes to their experience with 𝓈ℯ𝓍ual assault and decipher that while she believes some people are 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 gay—others discover they are through their assault.
“It’s so important for us to know certain male perspectives about these types of things because women go through a lot of 𝓈ℯ𝓍ual assault, but we don’t really get to hear or see what other men go through when they experience 𝓈ℯ𝓍ual assault. It shocked me,” she said in a since expired video from her Instagram.
She continued:
“I believe there’s some men that are 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 gay. I have a cousin that I just knew since he was two years old he was gay…And there’s men that get 𝓈ℯ𝓍ually assaulted then they find out they are gay. People are always going to be judgmental, people are always going to not accept them and stuff like that. But it’s like people sometimes don’t even know their story or how they got there. That’s why sometimes you got to be more open about certain things because its like you just dont know people’s story andwhy they like their preference and how they even got there.”
She then went on to say that “not everybody is 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 gay,” citing the characters initial hetero𝓈ℯ𝓍uality before his assault.
“He just wanted to identify what he likes, all because he got 𝓈ℯ𝓍ually assaulted,” she said.
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As a hetero𝓈ℯ𝓍ual Black woman, I’m in no position to speak on this but what I will say is that it’s never wise to invalidate anyone’s experience and journey to figure themselves out, and I hope all survivors of 𝓈ℯ𝓍ual assault continue to get the help they need.