Pokimane apologizes for \u201cwomen in the kitchen\u201d joke after Twitch backlash Twitch: PokimaneImane \u2018Pokimane\u2019 Anys has backpedaled on what the streamer says was simply a \u201charmless joke\u201d about women in the kitchen and apologized after growing Twitch backlash swamped her channel earlier this week. Star Twitch streamer Pokimane has come under fire on the Amazon-owned platform this week after joking that \u201call women belong in the kitchen\u201d in a recent stream. The Moroccan-Canadian\u2019s apparently controversial take \u2014 which she made clear was an attempted joke at the time \u2014 happened on December 7, when she was asked if girls should still \u201ccook and clean\u201d in relationships. She laughed: \u201cAll women belong in the kitchen!\u201d That seemed to be the end of the joke, until questions began popping up in her Twitch streaming chat over the following days. Near-regularly, in every stream since, viewers have asked her if she was being serious. Now, eight days later, Pokimane has moved to properly quash any suggestions she actually believes \u201cwomen belong in the kitchen\u201d in a December 14 apology. After days of comments in her Twitch chat, the 25-year-old decided to address the \u201ckitchen\u201d joke \u2014 a response she was shocked she ever had to make. First, Pokimane replied sarcastically. \u201cI mean, like, a few reasons, I guess,\u201d she said after a fan asked if she believed the claim, jokingly doubling down. \u201cFor starters, I really like food, so I\u2019m in the kitchen a lot. Secondly, I don\u2019t make the rules, I just repeat them sometimes. \u201cLastly,\u201d the popular Twitch star added with a sly smile, \u201cI think girls look really cute in aprons. So then really, why wouldn\u2019t we want them to be in the kitchen?\u201d The star couldn\u2019t keep the facade up, however, and broke into peals of laughter. She then replied more seriously, apologizing to anyone that had felt offended by her comments. She also added that she \u201cobviously never meant\u201d the comments. \u201cIt was a f**king joke dudes,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel like the worst thing is having to explain a joke,\u201d continued Pokimane. \u201cReally, guys, don\u2019t worry guys. God, I\u2019m not sexist. On God, for real, not sexist by the way. I bet you a buck fifty that I\u2019m not, I swear.\u201d \u201cMe supporting other female streamers and always talking about gendered issues, oh no, that\u2019s the front. My one kitchen joke, for sure means I\u2019m sexist.\u201d This isn\u2019t the first time this week that Pokimane has butted heads with her Twitch fans, after she made a child-stealing joke on December 12. Twitch\u2019s top stream-queen joked: \u201cYou guys want to know how I know I\u2019m a woman in my 20s? Because, when I\u2019m walking out, and I see a little kid\u2026 I look at them. They look so damn cute. And I look at the parents, and they aren\u2019t looking, and I\u2019m like; it would be so easy to steal your child.\u201d The Moroccan-Canadian star also came under fire this month for telling \u201cwell-off\u201d streamers they should uninstall Blizzard games and stop playing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pokimane apologizes for \u201cwomen in the kitchen\u201d joke after Twitch backlash Twitch: PokimaneImane \u2018Pokimane\u2019 Anys has backpedaled on what the streamer says was simply a \u201charmless joke\u201d about women in the kitchen and apologized after growing Twitch backlash swamped her channel earlier this week. Star Twitch streamer Pokimane has come under fire on the Amazon-owned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}