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Women Are Not Happy With Ciara For Co-Signing A Video Telling Them To #LevelUp To Wife Material

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By Paula Rogo · Updated October 24, 2020
Ciara shook the table this weekend when she co-signed a video that appeared to disparage single women who want to be married— a move that has left many women on social media angry. The singer reposted a clip of well-known Pastor John Gray giving a sermon about single women who are looking to become wives.

#LevelUp pic.twitter.com/rmS0WMOV1B

— Ciara (@ciara) January 20, 2018
“A wife is not the presence of a ring, it’s the presence of your character,” he says in the clip. “Too many women want to be married, but you’re walking in the spirit of a girlfriend.” He added: “Ask the lord to deliver you from that spirit, and carry yourself like you are already taken. And I promise you when you carry yourself like a wife, a husband will find you.” Ciara co-signed the clip with the hashtag #levelup. But a number of women are pushing back, calling out Ciara for her apparent hypocrisy given her own tumultuous journey to the altar. And they are dragging her accordingly:
https://twitter.com/daniecal/status/955101774305726464

I don't think the video Ciara posted is wrong. I just think it's weird she'd post something that looks so sanctimonious when her own journey to the altar was a very public struggle (which often got nasty)

— WE SUING (@ShaunaReporter) January 21, 2018

So many women went so hard for Ciara during these Future-Ciara-Russell-Baby Future arguments and she just turned around and asked them why they ain't married 😂😂😂 gotdamn bruh. Cold game

— 🐿️✨America Is Musty✨🐿️ (@DragonflyJonez) January 21, 2018

Ciara has posted a video on her Instagram account, generalizing women's frustration with being single as evidence that they need to first get themselves worthy enough to be selected. 😐

ME, preparing for the Hell she's just unleashed. pic.twitter.com/Co4RZgcixj

— kyle alex brett (@kyalbr) January 21, 2018
https://twitter.com/beneviera/status/955125887296516098

Ciara’s playing a dangerous game. You should never, no matter how perfect your relationship/marriage appears to be, sit on a throne and tell people why they’re not romantically successful. You can be the queen of the ball today and have cake in your face tomorrow!

— kevikev (@KevCoke6) January 21, 2018
Ciara, who is currently on vacation with her husband Russell Wilson, has yet to comment on the controversy almost a day after she posted it. Welp!