The man who once said he was “waiting on the world to change,” with the same lips, has completely degraded a handful of women.

There once was a time when John Mayer was labeled a lady swooner. Sensitive songs like “You’re Body Is A Wonderland” and “Daughters” put the star on the map, while his transformation with the very political album “Continuum” made him a cultural phenomenon.

Some critics proclaimed him the best guitarist of the current college student’s generation. Mayer even created an image of himself as the lovable jokester women could enjoy.

Then things turned sour.

The March issue of Playboy shows a different side of Mayer, a side he never showed in his songs about the love of his life or world peace.

Within the pages, an article quotes Mayer talking badly about his ex-girlfriends. He called Jessica Simpson “sexual napalm,” saying she was like “crack cocaine.” Of Jennifer Aniston, he insisted she wished she could go back to her career prime back in 1998, also criticizing her for not getting on board with new technologies popular in Hollywood (like Twitter.)

If that’s not enough to give you a new outlook of Mayer and your stomach can handle more, issues of race came up in the article, creating yet another instance that Mayer should have just stopped talking. Using the “N”-word, he said he doesn’t care to date black women, calling his penis a “white supremacist.”

There are a number of things wrong with the quotes the article printed, and Mayer recognized that when he took to his Twitter account on Feb. 10 to apologize.

“… [W]hile I’m using today for looking at myself under harsh light, I think it’s time to stop trying to be so raw in interviews,” he wrote in a number of different tweets. “… I’ve created somewhat of a monster. I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock. I don’t have the stomach for it.”

The apology continued.

Onstage in Nashville, during his last song, Mayer tearfully extended another apology to the crowd, saying, “In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and the people that love me.”

He added that he has fallen into a “wormhole of selfishness and greediness and arrogance,” saying he was consistently searching to be witty during the entire interview.

Apology or not, this masochistic way of thinking with a hint of racism is everything wrong with the world in which we live. When thinking of how the world should change, as Mayer has put into our minds with his tune, the stereotypes and the acts of degrading our neighbors should be the first to go.

This man plays a gentleman in his music, but the first chance he got, he rudely exploited the women who once trusted him.

And to use issues of race as a joke and talk badly about a group of people that have seen more discriminatory actions against them than Mayer ever will is just heart-breaking. How could this man be so mindlessly cruel?

Mayer should not be let off easily for his hypocritical comments. As much as he wants to play it up like they were, there was nothing “witty” about his comments. He has hurt many people, two named Simpson and Aniston.

I hope everyone sees his recent moves as idiotic and maybe the world will change by using Mayer as the perfect bad example.

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