Darius Jackson, the father of Keke Palmer’s son, is facing heat after shaming the beloved actress for a sheer dress she wore while attending Usher’s Las Vegas residency. Jackson re-tweeted Wednesday a video of Palmer being serenaded by the R&B singer, adding a seeming criticism of Palmer’s choice of wardrobe.

“It’s the outfit tho.. you a mom,” he wrote.

He later doubled down on his statement, writing, “We live in a generation where a man of the family doesn’t want the wife & mother to his kids to showcase booty cheeks to please others.”

Fans quickly came to Palmer’s defense, mocking Jackson, a fitness trainer, for being known mainly as her partner. Amid the uproar, some Black women said Jackson’s statements represent how motherhood and respectability are rigidly linked in the Black community.

[This is absolutely fascinating. Black men can catch grief but the women are behaviorally sacrosanct? It’s kind of a shame that motherhood and respectability aren’t so rigidly linked anymore, both from a male and female perspective, and I’m talking across the board, not just in the black community. Concerns about maintaining one’s “respectability” would put the kibosh to a lot of things going on right now and being able to feel shame is underrated at the moment, if not damn near a lost art. ~ Beege]