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What is the Sin in Simping?
When loving a woman makes you less of a man.
What is the sin in simping? This is a question I’ve been dying to ask ever since Russell Wilson’s February GQ interview turned the internet into one big He-Man Woman Hater’s hangout. During the Q&A, Wilson expressed that his greatest fear was losing his wife, R&B singer Ciara, and for some reason, some bizarre reason, this sentiment upset a lot of Black men. To be fair, the outrage is expected when it comes to the Wilson family of five. Black men have been lobbing insults at the Seahawks quarterback ever since Ciara accompanied him to the 2015 White House Correspondents Dinner. Many of them ticked by the fact that a man of Wilson’s worth would court a pre-owned single parent, a broken Black woman like Ciara. A “simp” is what they called him; it was evident to them, at least, that Wilson was being worked over, used, played. Or so, they saw it in 2015.
Still, some five years, four wedding anniversaries, and two additional children later, the sentiment that Wilson made a major mistake remains just as strong. The healthier and happier they were, the more war they attracted their way. I usually ignored the ignorance, chalked the chatter up to the ashier side of the internet. But something about this attack, particularly Black men berating a Black man for loving a Black woman and her son, bothered me. In the middle of a million…
