It’s possible that even a few years ago the gesture would have come across as sweet or romantic: a man begging his wife’s forgiveness in a public display of affection. But in 2018, when Offset interrupted Cardi B’s headlining set at a music festival to attempt a reconciliation, it came across as a move from an outdated playbook.in a Thread Ms. Burke relayed her own tale: When she was 16, an ex asked her to talk on the roof of his building. When she got there, he pulled out a gun and threatened to shoot her if she did not agree to get back together. “Few things are more scary than a rejected man with a bruised ego,” Ms. Burke wrote. “We are literally watching this slow moving train and regardless of how Cardi responds moving forward we can’t let this kind of behavior go unchecked.”
