{"id":178851,"date":"2025-09-24T16:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/178851\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T16:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T16:00:07","slug":"sabrina-carpenter-opens-up-about-being-attacked-and-ridiculed-by-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/178851\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabrina Carpenter opens up about being &#8216;attacked and ridiculed&#8217; by men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/86084647007-20250909-et-abc-soiree-danielle-fishel-16-x-9-thumb-2.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Danielle Fishel praises Sabrina Carpenter, teases &#8216;DWTS&#8217; performance<\/p>\n<p>Danielle Fishel reveals her obsession with Sabrina Carpenter\u2019s &#8220;Man&#8217;s Best Friend&#8221; album and hints at what she&#8217;ll perform on &#8220;Dancing with the Stars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In case you didn&#8217;t get it from her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/08\/28\/sabrina-carpenter-warns-mans-best-friend-explicit\/85873553007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/08\/28\/sabrina-carpenter-warns-mans-best-friend-explicit\/85873553007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">12-track indictment of modern dating<\/a> on &#8220;Man&#8217;s Best Friend,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/entertainment\/music\/sabrina-carpenter\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/entertainment\/music\/sabrina-carpenter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Sabrina Carpenter<\/a> has complicated feelings about the opposite sex.<\/p>\n<p>In a new interview <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.it\/article\/sabrina-carpenter-intervista-cover-vogue-italia-ottobre-2025\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.it\/article\/sabrina-carpenter-intervista-cover-vogue-italia-ottobre-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">with Italian Vogue<\/a>, Carpenter, 26, opened up about feeling &#8220;attacked&#8221; and &#8220;ridiculed&#8221; by some men amid her meteoric rise to pop domination.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think they&#8217;re a really fun species to watch,&#8221; she said of men in the interview published Sept 23. &#8220;In both a good and bad way. I feel really adored, inspired, and loved by some of them\u2026 and really confused, attacked, and ridiculed by others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/09\/07\/sabrina-carpenter-vmas-performance-2025\/86031189007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/09\/07\/sabrina-carpenter-vmas-performance-2025\/86031189007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Carpenter, a Disney star<\/a>-turned-singer-songwriter sensation, has become a cultural flashpoint in recent years, as both of her most recent albums <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/08\/29\/sabrina-carpenter-album-lyrics-mans-best-friends\/85884223007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/08\/29\/sabrina-carpenter-album-lyrics-mans-best-friends\/85884223007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">leaned heavily into sexual politics, heterosexual dating dynamics<\/a> and double entendre upon double entendre.<\/p>\n<p>Her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/06\/11\/sabrina-carpenter-new-album-cover-mans-best-friend\/84159803007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/06\/11\/sabrina-carpenter-new-album-cover-mans-best-friend\/84159803007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">latest hit single, &#8220;Manchild,&#8221;<\/a> is no different, skewering men for their immaturity and general unwillingness to step up to the plate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When one of my friends announces she&#8217;s having a son, I rejoice for that child,&#8221; Carpenter told Italian Vogue. &#8220;Because I know he&#8217;ll be raised right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Correct me if I\u2019m wrong,\u00a0I\u2019ve only been on Earth 26 years, but I feel like we should have been raising them forever,&#8221; she continued, in a seeming nod to her complaints on &#8220;Man&#8217;s Best Friend.&#8221; At one point on &#8220;Manchild,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2025\/08\/22\/sabrina-carpenter-paul-simon-snl50-duet-lorne-michaels\/85775793007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2025\/08\/22\/sabrina-carpenter-paul-simon-snl50-duet-lorne-michaels\/85775793007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Carpenter<\/a> croons, &#8220;Why so sexy if so dumb? \/ And how survive the earth so long? \/ If I&#8217;m not there it won&#8217;t get done \/ I choose to blame your mom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The remainder of the lyrics on her album don&#8217;t stray too far from that sentiment, wavering between obsession and exasperation, as Carpenter faces down what she sees as the eternal bind between wanting love (and sex) and finding a partner worthy of it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, it&#8217;s a story as old as time itself,&#8221; Carpenter joked to the outlet. She has been linked publicly to several famous men: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2025\/05\/23\/barry-keoghan-mom-heroin-addiction\/83820043007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2025\/05\/23\/barry-keoghan-mom-heroin-addiction\/83820043007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Irish actor Barry Keoghan,<\/a> more recently, and fellow Disney star Joshua Bassett, who sat at the center of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2021\/01\/22\/sabrina-carpenters-skin-why-fans-think-its-olivia-rodrigo-a-look-at-lyrics\/6676229002\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2021\/01\/22\/sabrina-carpenters-skin-why-fans-think-its-olivia-rodrigo-a-look-at-lyrics\/6676229002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">a love triangle that broke streaming charts.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Danielle Fishel praises Sabrina Carpenter, teases &#8216;DWTS&#8217; performance Danielle Fishel reveals her obsession with Sabrina Carpenter\u2019s &#8220;Man&#8217;s Best&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[13716,228,63839,236,13721,88,6592,37105,271,22442,3729,13723,216,34645,3,13270,20028,13470,34647,7220,17172,63838,8248,1557,20031,37099,1599,13692],"class_list":{"0":"post-178851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-affiliate","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-carpenter","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-celebrities-u0026-entertainment-news","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-gossip","15":"tag-gossip-u0026-tabloid-news","16":"tag-life","17":"tag-life-now","18":"tag-local","19":"tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","20":"tag-music","21":"tag-negative","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-now","24":"tag-optimized","25":"tag-overall","26":"tag-overall-negative","27":"tag-pop","28":"tag-pop-music","29":"tag-sabrina","30":"tag-sabrina-carpenter","31":"tag-seo","32":"tag-seo-team-optimized","33":"tag-tabloid","34":"tag-team","35":"tag-u0026"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}