Ariana Grande had the perfect response Wednesday to a tweet in which she was seemingly shamed for splitting from rapper Mac Miller.
Miller was arrested on May 17 on suspicion of DUI after a single-vehicle accident in Los Angeles. A week earlier, Grande took to social media to confirm she and Miller had ended their relationship.
On Twitter, someone named Elijah Flint weighed in. “Mac Miller totalling his G wagon and getting a DUI after Ariana Grande dumped him for another dude after he poured his heart out on a ten song album to her called the divine feminine is just the most heartbreaking thing happening in Hollywood.”
Grande had to clap back. She tweeted: “how absurd that you minimize female self-respect and self-worth by saying someone should stay in a toxic relationship because he wrote an album about them, which btw isn’t the case.
“I am not a babysitter or a mother and no woman should feel that they need to be.”
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Grande added that she tried to support Miller’s sobriety but “shaming / blaming women for a man’s inability to keep his s**t together is a very major problem.”
Flint replied to the tweet with a heartfelt apology in which he admitted knowing nothing about the famous ex-couple’s relationship. “I’m very sorry I hurt you and I’m sorry you feel my tweet stigmatizes women for ending a toxic relationship,” he wrote. “That wasn’t my intention at all.”
Grande replied: “thank you for hearing me, i appreciate your response v much.”
Flint later tweeted: “Honestly, I think the first step to becoming a feminist as a man is realizing that by being raised in a patriarchal society you’ve unintentionally internalized misogynistic tendencies.”