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Why isn't more done about Kanye

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clpsmum · 18/02/2024 12:00

Feels like Kanye west is openly abusing and controlling his wife while the world stands by and watches. How is it some people get away with things like this and others are cancelled for much much less.

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Beezknees · 18/02/2024 12:02

Because he is rich. Rich people get away with this stuff.

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clpsmum · 18/02/2024 14:22

@Beezknees it's awful isn't it that's the only explanation I can come up with too. Rich people can do whatever they want

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LilBus · 18/02/2024 14:50

What would you like people to do? You can’t force someone to leave if they don’t want to?

baileybrosbuildingandloan · 18/02/2024 17:13

And do we actually KNOW that she isn't complicit? I'm a 61 year old woman with no interest in his music/ fashion but even I could tell you her name. She is an educated woman with family too. I just wonder how much is coercive and how much is the pair of them sat together thinking "what can we do to get in the papers today?".
It's not like it's behind closed doors, is it?

Anjea · 18/02/2024 17:14

Her friends say she's a very switched on and wise woman. Maybe she's playing the long game here.

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clpsmum · 18/02/2024 20:32

I hope she is in on it. Just all seems horrible

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fourelementary · 18/02/2024 20:33

Her parents are worried for her according to the articles I’ve seen.

AIstolemylunch · 18/02/2024 20:38

What have they done now?

TheSameClip · 18/02/2024 20:38

He sort of has been cancelled though, hasn’t he? He has lost valuable business ventures and a lot of friends in high places due to his antisemitism and general instability and ridiculous notions.

I don’t know of many people outside of his paid-for entourage of hangers on who think this ‘relationship’ is OK or that he is a well man.

I hope (and predict!) that this young woman will come to her senses and make a sharp exit soon. Then maybe she’ll be able to see clearly what an abusive prick this guy is.

Greenshrub · 18/02/2024 20:47

I believe the “her parents are worried about her” articles aren’t true.

I’ve seen a comment her sister left on an instagram post which changed my mind on it really - it made it clear Bianca is totally in on it.

Think of Julia Fox as well. She was totally into all the weird/naked outfits (she kept wearing them long after they broke up). Julia Fox speaks a lot on social media/interviews so people know she has a confident personality which matches her sartorial choices. Bianca literally never speaks, which means people can cast her as this damsel in distress, but actually I imagine she is a strong confident woman in a similar vein to Julia Fox. She is an architect by profession and has worked for Yeezy for a few years before they got together, so she knew what Kanye was like.

SweetBirdsong · 18/02/2024 20:49

Pretty obvious why really...

Namechangetoponder · 18/02/2024 20:58

Pity any woman that would drop her knickers for him especially after watching his behaviour over the last 5+ years. She knows as well as Julia fox and Kim knew that it brought them £££

VERY hard to imagine this is some poor woman that's being manipulated

Anneinavan · 18/02/2024 21:00

Unfortunately it’s not illegal to be an arse. If it was most of the people I’ve worked with would be in the slammer. Some of them would never see the light of day again.
Not sure what the coercive control laws are where he comes from but if she’s not complaining there’s not much anybody can do.

Maverick66 · 18/02/2024 21:30

I think she is totally complicit .
I think her parents are worried because they are human and nothing about Kanye West appears to be .
As others have said ....they sit down and plan what to do next that would shock people . I think zero publicity and starve them of the oxygen that they so desperately crave. In a world where people are starving and homeless they sit on my last nerve 😟

Dostadning · 18/02/2024 21:34

Meh. If she wants to do a Kathy Beale in public and walk around wearing less than I used to do in Newcastle that's on her. She'll get a cold, mind.

Theunamedcat · 18/02/2024 21:35

Why has no-one called him out about his antisemitism?

Lampslights · 18/02/2024 21:41

What’s happened with his album, he was claiming he was no 1 in over 7o countries but it looks like he faked it?

I think she’s in on it, apparently he owes a fortune, and so her getting her kit off gave him publicity to help his album sell.

i saw a small video of her the other day and she was wearing some weird tabard thing with side boob, and she was absolutely sexualising it up. That wasn’t a coerced woman, that was someone who wanted the attention.

PTSDBarbiegirl · 18/02/2024 21:57

He's a deeply odd little man. Megalomaniac.

Greenshrub · 18/02/2024 22:04

Theunamedcat · 18/02/2024 21:35

Why has no-one called him out about his antisemitism?

Such an incredibly large number of prominent people have called him out on his antisemitism. And he lost all his brand deals because of it. Rightly so.

For what it’s worth, if anyone cares (and they sure don’t!), he has very severe bipolar disorder and frequent psychotic episodes. The worst antisemitic statements were made during manic episodes. He has since made various apologies. The “Jeen-Yuhs” documentary on netflix made by his friend of 24yrs provides really good and poignant insight into Kanye’s descent into mental illness after his mother died.

People love harping on about how much they care about mental health, and “be kind”, and so forth, but this empathy doesn’t extend to men with the most severe types of mental illness and psychosis which have the most severe and deeply unpleasant behaviour and negative impact on the people around them. It’s a lot easier just to call him an asshole.

lifebeginsaftercoffee · 18/02/2024 22:06

Theunamedcat · 18/02/2024 21:35

Why has no-one called him out about his antisemitism?

He has been - multiple times.

LakeTiticaca · 18/02/2024 22:07

If she is of sound mind and hasn't made a complaint nobody can do anything. Maybe she likes going out in public naked

Greenshrub · 18/02/2024 22:15

What’s happened with his album, he was claiming he was no 1 in over 7o countries but it looks like he faked it?

A quick google will tell you it is in fact number 1 in the USA, Australia, and over 100 other countries. 167 million plays on streaming platforms according to Forbes.

LadyBird1973 · 18/02/2024 22:16

Very rich people are surrounded by people they are paying - so no one has power to curb their excesses and tell them no. Everyone's on the gravy train and unwilling to risk losing money by saying something the rich person doesn't want to hear.

I think very rich people have very few genuine friends.

Re Kanye I think he was very badly affected by the loss of his mum and I think he needs medical help. Re his wife - unless she asks for intervention, what can anyone do.

TooBigForMyBoots · 18/02/2024 22:21

The world stands by and on the whole is supportive/complacent about the abuse of women and girls.

What do you think should happen @clpsmum?

Lampslights · 18/02/2024 22:22

Greenshrub · 18/02/2024 22:15

What’s happened with his album, he was claiming he was no 1 in over 7o countries but it looks like he faked it?

A quick google will tell you it is in fact number 1 in the USA, Australia, and over 100 other countries. 167 million plays on streaming platforms according to Forbes.

Yeah no under the headlines, the rumour is he used bots to stream it. As in he faked it, he launched then used bots to stream and it bounced it to no 1. So it’s fake as in it wasn’t real people.

It seems to make sense, especially as Israel was one of the countries it lept to no 1 in, and well he’s anti semite, so that seems unlikely..

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