This week Wild ‘N Out star and comedian B Simone announced on Nick Cannon’s Power 106 show that she in the list of things she wanted in a man was for him to not have a 9-5. For the last 2 days I’ve seen memes about her and witnessed celebrities like Tory Lanez calling her out over her decision as if he has a 9-5 and would be disqualified. In the video she said, “I’m trying to manifest a husband. Ain’t nothing wrong with a n***a with a 9 to 5. I get it. They work hard. I used to work a 9 to 5.Nothing is wrong,” she said in a video. “I need an entrepreneur. I need somebody that understands my mindset. Somebody that has the same lifestyle. It hasn’t anything to do with money.”
Now I gave this a lot of thought and wondered just what was behind the response she was receiving and could only come up with one idea and that is that she is being clowned for her place in the industry as though she should have no say in what type of man she dates. At least she put it out there. But lets be clear, at 29, she’s been on Wild ‘N Out for years, had her own dating show on Zeus, starred in Lil Kim’s reality show Girls Cruise, has a beauty line and that’s all I’m going to name. She, as a boss has earned enough credits to be able to say the type of man she wants and if it’s one who also is an entrepreneur, that’s her prerogative.
So what has some of the detractors said about Simone for her choice in men? The fact that she’s talked about being homeless before has come up. Remember when Sheree Whitfield brought up that NeNe Leakes was acting so bougie when she had a car repossessed and she just laughed and walked out of the restaurant because it was old news? The same goes for when Claudia Jordan brought up the same thing. NeNe asked “what about now” and promptly directed her to her garage now, to lift up the door and see what she’s driving today. The same goes for Simone and claiming otherwise is borderline misogynistic. She said she’s been single for 7 years and if she’s fine with that, then so be it. She’s not saying this at 50. If you watched Chilli from TLC’s dating show she had where she had an insanely long list of requirements for a man.
I can attest to this type of thought process as I grew up in a family of entrepreneurs. I didn’t know many people with 9-5s growing up and the same goes for being an adult. I still dated people who had 9-5s, but I did feel I related more to people who did not. And after a couple days of seeing her being dragged across the internet for just about no reason, I felt it was necessary to stick up for her because she didn’t say anything wrong.
