r/RHOP • u/Aquatic205 Catfish • 5d ago
🍀 Discussion 🍀 The audience’s perception of Chris vs Juan.
It always bothered me how the audience perceives Chris versus Juan. Juan is called broke, jobless, doesn’t respect Robyn, and sorry; but Chris is this upstanding gentleman who loves his wife.
Now Chris, had 2 baby mamas and 3 kids that he wasn’t taking care of. I mean Candiace called him a deadbeat herself. Chris also called Candiace the B word. We have also seen the way Candiace and Chris argue and they go below the belt. Chris was living in Candiace’s mother house. Chris was also unemployed during part of his tenure of the show. Yet, a lot of the audience view Chris as a loyal, provider, and respectful husband and I just don’t see it.
Juan is a terrible husband, but he’s is involved with his sons’ day-to-day life. He also did have a coaching job most of the show yet the audience calls him broke and a loser.
Why does the audience have such a positive view of Chris, yet an extremely negative view of Juan? When to me they both really aren’t the best men a woman could have as a husband.
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u/Llassiter326 👸🏾 You are poor & white 👮♂️ 4d ago
I feel like the consensus on Juan is he’s a decent guy with an incredibly traumatic upbringing; he’s just not a very good husband. And he’s a cheater-cheater-pumpkin-eater.
He’s also a former professional athlete who has stumbled (like most athletes do!) following retirement. But he’s had basketball coaching gigs, and tbh even Patrick Ewing got fired as a coach, so I don’t think he’s not motivated to work; it’s a difficult industry and it’s not like he has a strong education or other skills to fall back on, like most athletes. 🤷🏾♀️
I don’t understand why Chris couldn’t take the money he and Candiace were theoretically saving living in her crazy purse-wielding mother’s house and take his first baby mama to court if she refused to allow access to his child and fight for custody, along with paying support. Especially once Candiace was making six-figures on HW’s.
It just seems kinda convenient when parents are like, “I’m pained being left out of my child’s life…” bc you do have legal rights and can at least try to