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Leslie Jones is not happy with the institution of marriage, and she made that clear in a recent interview with YouTuber Ziwe — where she likened marriage to “legalized slavery.”
When pressed on her stance, Jones doubled down, warning young people against getting married and comparing traditional expectations of wives to oppression.
“I think marriage is legalized slavery,” Jones told Ziwe.
When the interviewer pushed back, Jones responded, “If he is expecting you to be a trad wife, he might as well pull out a whip and a chain.”
“There are young people watching who might be wanting to get married. What would you say to them?” the interviewer then asked.
“Don’t,” Jones replied.
Shemeka Michelle tells BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock on “Jason Whitlock Harmony” that Jones’ position is not born of a healthy mindset.
“I think this is silly. She’s 58 years old, and it really bothers me when we have old women who are just bitter and angry and never been married, alone. She never had children. She wants this same bitterness and anger for young people, saying, ‘Never get married,’” Michelle says.
“How can you even liken marriage to slavery? Marriage is something that God ordained. It’s why he created woman, because man wasn’t supposed to be alone. The fact that she likens it to slavery is just her own bitterness,” she continues.
“She has some residual bitterness for not being chosen,” she adds.
Whitlock couldn’t agree with Michelle more.
“Calling marriage slavery when it’s actually the greatest tool in the pursuit of holiness, that’s what really bothers me,” he agrees.
Michelle points out that Jones’ view of marriage is based on those who enter marriage for the wrong reasons.
“For Leslie to say that, I just feel like she’s never really stepped back and taken a look at herself beyond her physical appearance. But to say, ‘How can I change? How can I be a good wife?’ Because there are a lot of women who just enter marriage for the wrong reason,” Michelle explains.
“They want the big wedding. They want the nice ring. They want to be able to think that they’ll just get to sit on the couch and eat bonbons. They’re not looking at it from an act of service and how I can be a good wife. There are a lot of women who want to get married, but there aren’t a lot who want to be wives,” she continues.
“And this is clear from the way she likens it to slavery. She just has the wrong mindset about it,” she adds.
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Female ex-referee accuses NFL of sexism, sues after she was allegedly made to perform 'an utterly humiliating' act
The NFL's third-ever female referee has filed a lawsuit against the league, citing gender-based scrutiny and multiple "humiliating" instances.
Robin DeLorenzo of New Jersey was hired by the NFL in 2022 after working in college football's Big Ten Conference. After three years on the job, DeLorenzo now says her tenure with the league included "unchecked harassment" and gender bias.
'A male power play that served its purpose of humiliating plaintiff, shattering her confidence.'
DeLorenzo's lawsuit signaled that her experience in the NFL was immediately non-satisfactory upon receiving male-sized clothing before she reported for duty.
According to the Associated Press, one of DeLorenzo's worst experiences allegedly came during a Pittsburgh Steelers training camp. Teams routinely bring in officials to referee their practice games.
The lawsuit claims that an NFL officials' crew chief allegedly told then-Pittsburgh Steelers Coach Mike Tomlin that DeLorenzo should have to sing in front of everyone at the training camp. The alleged reason was that because she was a new referee, she should be treated like a rookie football player.
DeLorenzo reportedly obliged and sang in front of the Steelers players, the male officiating crew, and her boss. This was described by the female ex-ref as having to "put on an utterly humiliating singing performance."
To make matters worse, DeLorenzo claims her boss promised he would not record her but did so anyway.
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Other claims made in the lawsuit include repeated shaming, harassment, and trash-talk by her crew chief, who one year allegedly refused to speak to DeLorenzo by the end of the season.
The lawsuit also reportedly takes issue with the fact that DeLorenzo was forced to attend "an alleged training opportunity" that turned out to involve lower-level college officials.
The legal filing called the instance "a male power play that served its purpose of humiliating plaintiff, shattering her confidence, and significantly hindering her NFL career."
The NFL sees it differently, however. Spokesman Brian McCarthy told the Associated Press that DeLorenzo's firing was due to documented underperformance.
"The allegations in this lawsuit are baseless, and we will vigorously defend against them in court," McCarthy said.
Not only does DeLorenzo's lawsuit include statements that she endured "systemic inequality," it also claimed the NFL "exposed her to unchecked harassment, denied her the resources given to men, manipulated her training and grading opportunities, and ultimately ended her career" through "tainted" evaluations by people who "discriminated against her."
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DeLorenzo was fired from the NFL in February 2025 and reassigned to college football along with two male referees. All three of the officials had three or fewer years in the NFL.
The NFL describes its officiating review process as including one or two in-person reviews of an NFL game, each week, by officiating supervisors. These reviews are coupled with weekly training videos, conference calls, and an end-of-season evaluation that determines which referees will officiate in the playoffs.
"A subpar season-long performance could mean remediation, or even a demotion," the league writes. "NFL officials serve on a year-to-year contract, and they have to prove their mettle every year. There is no guarantee that they will return the next season."
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Actress Brie Larson is wondering why she bothered with politics in the first place.
Once outspoken about the Donald Trump administration — and known for condemning “white dude[s]” who criticized her films — Larson now appears to have found a different focus.
'What was I thinking doing all these dramas where I had to speak on, like, very serious issues happening?'
The half-French-Canadian star — born Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers — has gradually stepped back from overtly progressive politics, returning to a more traditional Hollywood pastime: promoting her projects.
After what she called the best press day of her life, Larson told Fandango, “What was I thinking doing all these dramas where I had to speak on, like, very serious issues happening?”
White fright
Press and “serious issues” used to go hand in hand for 36-year-old Larson, who rarely missed an opportunity to lecture fans about racism and sexism. This tendency only intensified once her role as Captain Marvel brought her worldwide fame, putting her at odds with a significant portion of Marvel’s fanbase.
In 2018, while accepting an award for “Excellence in Film,” Larson called out film criticism for having too many “white males.”
“Less than a quarter were white women, and less than 10% were underrepresented men. Only 2.5% of those top critics were women of color,” she said.
Larson added that she didn’t need to hear from a “40-year-old white dude” about her movie because it “wasn’t made for him.”
“I want to know what that film meant to women of color, to biracial women, to teen women of color, to teens that are biracial,” she continued.
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Larson then clarified that she didn’t “hate white dudes.”
Tank girl
While the Larson-starring 2019 “Captain Marvel” proved invulnerable to the controversy, audience enthusiasm for women-led superhero films has since cooled. The 2023 follow-up, “The Marvels” — which found Larson joining forces with two other female heroes — became the studio’s worst-performing superhero film.
That same year, actor Samuel L. Jackson relayed that Larson was indeed “broken” by President Trump winning in 2016, saying they bonded on the set of “Kong: Skull Island” (2017).
“We bonded through the election while we were doing her movie when Donald Trump won. She was broken, and I was like, ‘Don’t let ’em break you. You have to be strong now,’” Jackson recalled.
Once one of Hollywood's most vocal progressives, Larson has seemingly stepped away from the political scene entirely, choosing to laser-focus on her projects, which have mostly included TV appearances and now “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.”
As she once did with politics, Larson is diving headfirst into gaming culture.
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Gamer great
“There’s so much that video games are taking from cinema, and I think it’s really time for us in cinema to recognize what we can take from video games,” she told host Jacqueline Coley on “Seen on the Screen.”
In fact, Larson has made virtually no public political comments since the COVID-19 era and the unrest of 2020.
Instead, she’s ramped up public appearances after a period of relative quiet — traveling internationally to promote Nintendo projects and even speaking Japanese.
“I love Nintendo so much. I’ve been playing it my entire life,” she said in Kyoto, Japan. “I’m so grateful to be here.”
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‘People being mean on the internet’: The real reason women are 'leaving' the right
Women are abandoning the political right, and BlazeTV host John Doyle is questioning whether the shift is rooted in conviction — or something more superficial.
A recent New York Magazine article titled “The Young Women Leaving the New Right” highlights these women — some who remain anonymous — who say they regret their involvement in right-wing politics.
“We love women, but instead, we have to talk really about this kind of phenomenon of women existing, e-celeb women existing, you know, ditching the right for dumb reasons,” Doyle begins.
The women featured in the article cite the growing resentment and misogyny that their right-wing following began to display as a reason they were pushed away, which Doyle notes is not a good enough reason to disavow an entire political ideology — especially if someone truly believed in that ideology in the first place.
“Not that you shouldn’t be able to, but you shouldn’t sort of ascend in a certain space, have a bad time perhaps because of personal reasons, and then come back and try to destroy that space, which again is more or less committed to the success of the country that you claim to care about,” Doyle explains.
“There are also other people, you know, other stories of this obviously in the last few years, people disavowing the entire right wing after having made their name. You know, they cultivate a sort of persona and then they don’t get exactly what they want in terms of money, attention,” he continues.
“Their personal lives kind of implode, and now all of a sudden, it’s a big problem with the entire right-wing space. They go give interviews to leftists, and they call MAGA a cult. They say that right-wing women are jumping the ship because of people being mean on the internet. And then they also claim that it’s going to make the Republicans lose the midterms in 2028,” he says.
Doyle points out that the right isn’t “more misogynistic now than it was in 2024 when Trump won the popular vote and every swing state.”
“I don’t think that’s the case. I think what’s really happening here is a bunch of right-wing female influencers maybe made a couple bad choices, maybe let a couple people get under their skin,” Doyle says.
“Now they have become maybe a little scorned and decided to try to make the party of open borders and child transgenderism win. Maybe that’s like kind of all there is to it,” he adds.
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