I'm sure we've all been slapped in the face with media coverage of former American Idol Fantasia Barrino's suicide attempt and bombarded with details on her affair with married T-mobile representative Antwuan Cook. Yet Alicia Keys & Swizz Beats escaped negative backlash in its entirety. Keys' wedding was painted as a fairy tale, even though she allegedly did what many women other than Angelina Jolie consider to be the unthinkable: steal another woman's husband and get pregnant before the divorce is even final. Most women on the receiving end of that behavior would take the pregnancy as a great big open-handed slap to the face. Of course, we don't know if Keys "stole" Beatz from his wife -- no one knows what goes on in marriages -- but it appears that she was romantically involved with someone who was married. Beatz's wife, Mashonda, maintains that she was blindsided by the affair with Keys, who was even a guest at her baby shower.
I'm wondering why the mainstream media are so willing to let Keys off the hook for what many would call socially unacceptable behavior at best, and immoral behavior at worst, while taking Barrino to task for similar behavior. Is it that Keys is too pretty to be pummeled? Wrong is wrong! A Homewrecker is a homewrecker!
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