I Don't Like Steve Harvey. Yes, I Said It

In a piece for the Huffington Post critiquing the approach of the author-comedian-relationship guru, Kirsten West Savali predicts that the only redeeming feature of his new film, Think Like a Man, will be the money it makes at the box office. Suggested Reading New AI TikTok Trend Has Gorillas Posing as Black Women, and Folks…

In a piece for the Huffington Post critiquing the approach of the author-comedian-relationship guru, Kirsten West Savali predicts that the only redeeming feature of his new film, Think Like a Man, will be the money it makes at the box office.

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I don't like Steve Harvey โ€” yes, I said it.

To be more precise, since I've never met the man personally, I don't like what Steve Harvey represents.

There is an arrogance โ€” a barely sheathed tone of alpha-male superiority that permeates everything he spews from politics to relationships โ€” that simply makes my skin crawl. In his controversial "book," Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, he presumes that women are so desperate to snare a man that they will blindly lap up advice from anyone with a pen and a publicist. In a deliberate attempt at adverse-feminism, he casts women as simple-minded huntresses who โ€” with a simple fifteen-dollar literary weapon from Barnes & Noble โ€” will be armed with the sophisticated techniques needed to catch our flawed masculine prey. To make matters worse, he has a consistent habit of illuminating the misogyny in the Bible for public consumption, as if the Great One himself parted the clouds and said, "Woman, thou shall be a lady in the streets, but a freak in the sheets โ€ฆ (((sheets))) โ€ฆ (((sheets))) โ€ฆ "

Read Kirsten West Savali's entire piece at the Huffington Post.

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