Football star slams women who can’t cook, ‘know when to be quiet’ or ‘cater to a man’s needs’

NFL quarterback Cam Newton has landed himself in hot water after seguing from a sweet story about his parents to a bizarre rant about women.

Say what Cam Newton?!? Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images

Cam Newton isn’t helping his chances of finding a new team.

During a recent appearance on Barstool Sports’ Million Dollaz Worth of Game podcast, the free-agent quarterback, 32, opened up about his childhood before seguing to his views of women’s roles.

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“I had a perfect, a perfect example of what a man was in my life by my father,” Newton said, according to Mediaite. “My parents have been together for 36, 37 years now and it’s a beautiful thing.

“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**ch.”

Newton was then asked, “what’s the difference,” as the interview continued.

“A bad b**ch is a person who is just, you know, ‘Girl, I’m a bad b**ch, I’m doing this, I’m doing that. I look the part but I don’t act that part.’

“And there’s a lot of women who are bad b**ches, and I say b**ches in a way not to degrade a woman, but just to go off the aesthetic of what they deem is a boss chick,” Newton said.

“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**ch, 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.”

Cam Newton led the Carolina Panthers to the Super Bowl in 2015. Photo by Jacob Kupferman / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP

Newton, who last played for the Panthers, faced backlash in 2017 for making a sexist dig at a female sports reporter.

During a press conference at the time, Panthers beat reporter Jourdan Rodrigue asked the then-Carolina quarterback about wide receiver Devin Funchess’ routes.

Newton responded, “It’s funny to hear a female talking about routes.”

The NFL condemned Newton’s remark with the quarterback later issuing an apology.

“After careful thought, I understand that my word choice was extremely degrading and disrespectful to women. And to be honest, that was not my intention,” he said at the time. “And if you are a person who took offence to what I said, I sincerely apologise.”

This story first appeared in the New York Post and was republished with permission.

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