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Halle Berry Shuts Down the ‘You Can’t Keep a Man’ Narrative
The actress gave a perfect response to this toxic outlook.
It happens to most women who endure more than one divorce or breakup. It’s happened to Halle Berry. It’s happened to Jennifer Lopez, Eva Longoria, Drew Barrymore, Janet Jackson, Demi Moore, and a host of other gorgeous women considered to be a “catch” who’ve experienced what many deem multiple failed relationships with men.
It’s probably happened to you.
Consensus slaps women in this situation with the “You can’t keep a man” label. As though you have some fatal flaw. Some irrevocable brokenness that your beauty or talent cannot overcome.
Berry recently endured this repeated onslaught of misguided slander when she posted on Instagram, “Women don’t owe you sh*t.” That was it. No context or elaboration.
Still, naturally, some commenters took this to signal that the Oscar-winning actress was having “man problems” yet again.
One person commented, “Geesh Berry, had some trouble with men in your life??”
“Says the woman who can’t keep a man,” was another commenter’s retort. To which, Berry replied:
Who says I wanna keep the wrong man? Cuz…. I don’t.
