04/04/2026
Oh NOW I’m extra done with this.
She DID greet him. It just wasn’t the stiff, buttoned up, “yes sir” version he apparently thinks he’s entitled to. It was a casual dap, warm, human, real. The kind of greeting people use when they’re actually being genuine instead of performative.
And let’s be honest about what’s really sitting underneath all this… 👀
That style of greeting? That culture? That ease? He didn’t like it.
So instead of just taking the L like a grown man, we get a whole narrative about “respect” because it didn’t look the way he wanted it to look.
Miss me with that coded nonsense.
Because somehow when women, especially Black women, show up confident, direct, and not bending themselves into someone else’s idea of “proper,” it suddenly becomes a problem. Not because it is one, but because it doesn’t center him.
Meanwhile she’s out there winning games and keeping it classy, and he’s spiraling over the format of a handshake.
Be serious.
Respect isn’t about choreography. It’s about how you carry yourself. And from where I’m standing, one of them showed up grounded and winning… and the other one couldn’t handle not being the moment.
We all saw it. 💅