Jarrod Wallace cops backlash over ‘inside joke’ Instagram caption with Shani Wells
A former Titans player has copped major backlash over an Instagram caption he says was an ‘inside joke’.
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A former Titans player has copped major backlash over an Instagram caption he says was an ‘inside joke’.
Dolphins player Jarrod Wallace posted a photo with his fiance Shani Wells to Instagram on Sunday evening.
The post originally said “you look real good cooking our little boy, but even better when you’re washing my clothes”.
Wallace soon edited the post to say “Take 2 – My beautiful fiance looking gorgeous while cooking our baby boy. Also for anyone concerned about my first post, it was an inside joke between us”.
Wells commented on the post and said “well thankfully you do the washing honey, along with everything else while I'm nauseous”.
However, the post didn’t go down well with some of his 24.5k followers.
A screenshot of the caption was posted to Facebook groups with one commenter, Shai Powe, saying “it’s called cultural violence”.
“Normalising sexism by making these ‘jokes’ just enables and reinforces sexist beliefs and attitudes”.
Ashleigh Trace commented on his post and said “it’s an inside joke for a reason, for it to be kept between the two of you”.
“Usually if you’re a public figure you’d think about what you’re typing before you post it”.
Others defended his post and said it “wasn’t that big of an issue”.
Wells defended a comment which said “sometimes (it) is best to keep an inside joke inside”.
She said “it was about laundry. It’s not that sinister. For clarity, I don’t do our laundry, Jarrod insists on doing it. Along with everything else so I can rest.”.
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