Sabrina Carpenter issues blunt response to man’s ‘misogynistic’ comment over her ‘Manchild’ performance

Sabrina Carpenter delivered a short and (not so) sweet clapback after a strange remark about her height got dragged across social media.

The 26-year-old pop star has never made a secret of being petite—she stands at five feet tall.

She recently hit the stage at Lollapalooza with a set that included one of her biggest songs, “Manchild”.

It’s a cheeky, sarcastic track about the frustration of dealing with emotionally immature partners, and Sabrina previously called it the “embodiment of a loving eye roll”.

During the performance, she leans into the joke by getting the crowd to join in on the pre-chorus, running through a list of insults aimed at the song’s target.

“useless”

“slow”

“useless”

Then the chant lands on the punchline that tees up the chorus.

“Manchild”

As you might expect, not everyone enjoyed the premise—particularly some men online—and one X (formerly Twitter) user tried to mock Carpenter in response to a clip from the show.

“Women are always like ‘men are useless’ but Sabrina Carpenter is like 4 foot 11, she can’t even climb into a mid-size SUV without help’.

The comment sparked plenty of pushback, with users pointing out that the attempted dig didn’t really land.

“Bro really thought height was the comeback… meanwhile she got 100k people chanting her lyrics. Priorities all over the place,”

“Men wanna be needed so bad that he gave the most useless example that just proves her point,”

“This song is about you,”

“I mean the song is called ‘Manchild’, referring to men who act like children. Being offended by Sabrina Carpenter is very telling,”

“She’s 5 feet to be exact,”

“If you were offended by the song, it’s about you,”

“OK but you do realize she could get a woman to help her, correct? She still doesn’t need a man for that.”

The most widely shared reply, though, came from Carpenter herself, who quoted the original post and kept it simple.

“Yes I can ?”

Within a couple of hours, her response pulled in more than 716,000 likes and over 76,000 reposts.

Oh boy…