Jameela Jamil is weighing into the Bennifer 2.0 frenzy.
The actress and television personality is not a fan of the comparisons of Jennifer Lopez and Jennifer Garner, Ben Affleck’s current beau and ex-wife.
Jamil shared her disdain for those who are “pitting” the women against each other, and that she was “ABSOLUTELY not here for the Jennifer Garner comparison to JLo, with paparazzi pics of her working out, put right next to glamorous social media photos of JLo.”
“It’s not the nineties,” she continued in a tweet. “We aren’t still pitting women against women over a guy… [Especially] when only one of them wants him.”
The London-born beauty then took her distaste over to Instagram, sharing a screenshot of the tweet along with a lengthy caption that urged fans to take a stand against this type of media coverage.
“BLOCK any publication or individual pursuing this narrative,” she advised. “Otherwise you are directly funding patriarchy. #defundpatriarchy so that women can be free.”
Jamil added, “It is a sad truth that media drips down into culture, society, schools… etc. We have to actively reject the rot. We control the market. The media responds to whatever they think we want. So let’s show them what we don’t want so that they stop doing it”
The self-proclaimed “Feminist-In-Progress” then likened the Lopez and Garner situation to body-shaming, noting that “we were able to at least stop them from overtly fat shaming women in their swimsuits” and begin to “shift” the narrative and language surrounding bodies.
She then reflected on her own experience, stating, “I have lived a life of so many women seeing me as a threat or a competitor, and have never wanted that.”
“Let the Jens live. Let women live. Let girls live. Stop the rot,” Jamil concluded.
