It looks like the holy matrimony between Simone Biles and her husband Jonathan Owens is continuing to be tried by hateration and mockery by online trolls. I’ll explain.
Ever since Owens explained how he thought he was the catch in their relationship and admitted to not knowing who Biles was before they dated (never mind the fact that she was a whole Olympic gold medal winner), jokes have flown all over the internet with many dubbing him “Mr. Simone Biles” in an attempt to lowkey put him in his place.
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Well, it seems the joke hasn’t and still isn’t going over too well in their household, as Biles took to social media to express her frustration over the tired jabs.
“I’m going to quickly address this, the joke was never a joke! Y’all are blatantly being disrespectful to my relationship & my husband,” she said in an since-expired Instagram story post on Monday. “So I’m gonna go ahead and say this one time. Respectfully, f**k off. & if you keep commenting or tweeting at me I’m just going to block you. Simple as that. And no, I don’t need to touch grass or whatever tf y’all suggest. @ everyone else that supports us, we love y’all so much.”
Added Owens in a repost to his own Insta-stories: “If y’all gone support, support! If not, respectfully keep scrolling. Cause being fake mad about people y’all don’t know from a can of paint is weirdo behavior.”
On the one hand, I can understand their frustration. We don’t know the true ins and outs of their relationship and Biles has repeatedly had to defend Owens against naysayers.
But on the flipside, Alexis Ohanian — co-founder of Reddit and multi-millionaire who also happens to be married to another Olympic gold medalist Serena Williams — has no problem being referred to as “Mr. Serena Williams” and has come to embrace it.
Likewise, if the roles were reversed — as they often are during the end of a wedding ceremony — and people were calling Biles “Mrs. Jonathan Owens,” I doubt there’d be any uproar within their household or online. So why is it that this really has them both up in arms?
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