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Does anyone have any opinion on why Kanye West keeps taking his wife out places naked?

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EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 06/02/2024 09:11

I don’t believe it’s her idea. He has often declared the women he has dated and married as his ‘muse’, so my assumption will be that he is behind it.

It’s bothering me on so many levels. There’s the worry it is part of an abusive/coercive relationship that’s just happening in plain sight. Because he is wealthy then it is fine, whereas the truth might be she needs help.

There’s the worry from a feminist angle that he might be trying to prove that all women are no better than prostitutes. He seemed to be furious when his ex wife dressed provocatively and yet us happy for his new wife to be constantly naked or partially clothed wearing sex clothes.

Then there’s the racial thoughts that I have. Would he be doing this to a an American black woman and get no negative commentary? I honestly don’t think so. I think they’d be a huge backlash if he was walking around with a black woman in gimp masks and naked under rain macs. It’s interesting to me that the women he likes to humiliate are light skinned. He calls them ‘cream of wheat’. Again is part of the thrill the humiliation? I don’t know. But every time I see another set of photos of him completely covered from head to toe and her naked it makes me feel very uneasy.

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CormorantStrikesBack · 06/02/2024 10:09

And yes maybe she is a willing participant, maybe she gets a kick out of it, maybe she’s happy about it (she doesn’t look happy), maybe they have a consensual dom/sub thing going on which she enjoys. Maybe she is desperate to be famous. 🤷‍♀️

Psychoticbreak · 06/02/2024 10:12

I dont think he is mentally unwell I think he is just a giant attention seeking knob who marries giant attention seeking knobs.

SallyWD · 06/02/2024 10:16

I find it all very disturbing. He's an awful man and mentally ill. I can't help feeling even more annoyed with her though. For God sake woman, stop degrading yourself for that idiot!

Honeychickpea · 06/02/2024 10:16

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 06/02/2024 09:23

We can’t use ‘she’s an adult’ as an acceptance of not being currently fully under his control. Adults get sucked into damaging, abusive relationships every day. If my partner was regularly parading me naked out and about in public I would fully expect an official body to step in. It’s his money protecting him.

Why would you need an official body rather than just telling him "no, I won't do that"? Have you no agency or personal responsibility for your choices?
Bottom line, they both want publicity.

Honeychickpea · 06/02/2024 10:20

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 06/02/2024 09:36

So why isn’t he naked then? Why is he completely covered and the woman is naked bar a see through piece of plastic?

Why does this woman no longer work and instead just walk around next to him as they travel (get chased out of) countries across the globe? It’s weird and we all need to start saying it’s weird and wrong.

Because at the moment that IS her work, and I am sure she is well compensated for it.

MrsElsa · 06/02/2024 10:20

Is no one mentioning the gimp mask? That would be disturbing on its own.

AccidentallyWesAnderson · 06/02/2024 10:26

Psychoticbreak · 06/02/2024 10:12

I dont think he is mentally unwell I think he is just a giant attention seeking knob who marries giant attention seeking knobs.

Agree. Mental health is used to excuse so much. Some people are just arseholes, plain and simple.

Janetime · 06/02/2024 10:27

AccidentallyWesAnderson · 06/02/2024 10:26

Agree. Mental health is used to excuse so much. Some people are just arseholes, plain and simple.

Yes, they are, and that applies to both men and women.

CormorantStrikesBack · 06/02/2024 10:28

Psychoticbreak · 06/02/2024 10:12

I dont think he is mentally unwell I think he is just a giant attention seeking knob who marries giant attention seeking knobs.

I think he has formally diagnosed bipolar and doesn’t always take his meds. Though I agree it may not be the bipolar causing his behaviour, he could just be an arsehole. But equally it could unmedicated bipolar 🤷‍♀️

CormorantStrikesBack · 06/02/2024 10:30

I read (admittedly in the DM) her friends and family are worried about how much he controls her. She also used to be very active on social media and according to friends Kanye won’t “allow” her on social media anymore.

WandaWonder · 06/02/2024 10:30

So we have women judging a woman for choices she makes

Then there is 'what you are doing is terrible I would never do that so you have to be doing it because of a man'

So a women can't just do some she wants even if we think it makes no sense?

'Oh he is making her do it I need there to be a man behind it because I can't accept a women owns her choices if I can't find a way to blame a man I will make one up'

JohnMytton · 06/02/2024 10:31

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Honeychickpea · 06/02/2024 10:34

CormorantStrikesBack · 06/02/2024 10:30

I read (admittedly in the DM) her friends and family are worried about how much he controls her. She also used to be very active on social media and according to friends Kanye won’t “allow” her on social media anymore.

I think the sort of "friends" that talk to the Daily Mail will say whatever they are being paid to say - by the newspaper or by the publicity seekers.

betterangels · 06/02/2024 10:35

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This is what I thought. They're a match made in Hollywood...

Janetime · 06/02/2024 10:36

WandaWonder · 06/02/2024 10:30

So we have women judging a woman for choices she makes

Then there is 'what you are doing is terrible I would never do that so you have to be doing it because of a man'

So a women can't just do some she wants even if we think it makes no sense?

'Oh he is making her do it I need there to be a man behind it because I can't accept a women owns her choices if I can't find a way to blame a man I will make one up'

This is my take on it as well. And all the nonsense about her friends, it’s also been reported by her friends she enjoys rhe attention and truly believes they are royalty, she also has little to do with the friends who say these things, and the friends she hangs with, say nothing.

absoltely it could be a control thing, but absolutely it could be her choice.

Snowdropsarecoming · 06/02/2024 10:39

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 06/02/2024 09:13

Okay. So if we are happy to describe him as lacking capacity because he is mentally unwell, isn’t the wife even more in need of some help?

I’m not saying his abusive isn’t abusive. I’m just answering your question about his motivation.

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 06/02/2024 10:41

WandaWonder · 06/02/2024 10:30

So we have women judging a woman for choices she makes

Then there is 'what you are doing is terrible I would never do that so you have to be doing it because of a man'

So a women can't just do some she wants even if we think it makes no sense?

'Oh he is making her do it I need there to be a man behind it because I can't accept a women owns her choices if I can't find a way to blame a man I will make one up'

My thoughts on that were why wasn’t she doing this before she met him? Look at old photos. She was behaving like a completely usual 20+ year old professional woman. What changed?

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PutinSmellsPassItOn · 06/02/2024 10:42

His wife was known for her outrageous outfits and attention seeking behaviour way before Kanye.......I wouldn't be so quick to assume she's the one being exploited op, if my experience of people who have bipolar and MH issues are anything to go by it will be the opposite and Kanye is the one being encouraged to take part in outrageous behaviour not being fully aware of the consequences and others viewpoint. She, however knows exactly what she's doing. I'd be sleeping with one eye open if I was him 😬

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 06/02/2024 10:44

PutinSmellsPassItOn · 06/02/2024 10:42

His wife was known for her outrageous outfits and attention seeking behaviour way before Kanye.......I wouldn't be so quick to assume she's the one being exploited op, if my experience of people who have bipolar and MH issues are anything to go by it will be the opposite and Kanye is the one being encouraged to take part in outrageous behaviour not being fully aware of the consequences and others viewpoint. She, however knows exactly what she's doing. I'd be sleeping with one eye open if I was him 😬

If she’s actually the one with the power I hope she pops a gimp mask on him and a nice thong manikini and parades him through the street on a lead.

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Psychoticbreak · 06/02/2024 10:50

CormorantStrikesBack · 06/02/2024 10:28

I think he has formally diagnosed bipolar and doesn’t always take his meds. Though I agree it may not be the bipolar causing his behaviour, he could just be an arsehole. But equally it could unmedicated bipolar 🤷‍♀️

I have unmedicated adhd and asd, doesnt make me a collosal arsehole.

MrsSkylerWhite · 06/02/2024 10:54

I’m not sure who they are. I know his name but no idea who his wife is.

Reading the thread, though, I can only wonder why people pay so much attention to vacuous celebrities.

Honeychickpea · 06/02/2024 10:54

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 06/02/2024 10:41

My thoughts on that were why wasn’t she doing this before she met him? Look at old photos. She was behaving like a completely usual 20+ year old professional woman. What changed?

What changed? The prospect of more money.

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 06/02/2024 10:58

Or…. What changed was meeting a powerful abusive male who groomed his victim into cutting off family and friends and relying solely on him for all basic needs. Which is it?

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EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 06/02/2024 10:59

MrsSkylerWhite · 06/02/2024 10:54

I’m not sure who they are. I know his name but no idea who his wife is.

Reading the thread, though, I can only wonder why people pay so much attention to vacuous celebrities.

So you’ve wandered into this thread to let us know that you have better things to do than contribute to a thread regarding celebrities. Okay.

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Songiii · 06/02/2024 11:14

It’s difficult but ultimately I think they’re both exploiting each other.

I think he’s controlling and violently wants his women to oscillate from the Madonna to the “whore”. I think he likes the artist muse dynamic which again can be seen as an imbalance of power.

However, it’s 2024. Why do we assume she’s a victim in all of this? She may be consenting to everything.

Ultimately, they’ll eventually break up and I believe that she’ll spin the ‘I was abused and controlled line.’ As Julia fox has done…whilst simultaneously attending celebrity galas and gracing magazine covers etc. A woman that prior to Kanye was relatively unknown…

However, I could argue that she’s exploiting an obviously mentally unwell man for fame, money and notoriety.

In terms of Kanye humiliating white women. He’s dated black women and treated them similarly, however he just wasn’t as famous.