Joke would have been funny if it didn’t refer to her as a “whore”. Making fun of people acting like idiots - fine. Insulting people who like sex - not fine.
Also taking the piss out of her hair loss, which is a genuine medical condition, was downright awful.
Bold men everywhere: “surprised pikachu face” That’s it boys, we’ll be made fun of no longer!
Tupac is back in the news this week so she’s got no time for Will.
Oof.
I love all the people in here defending Will Smith because “Chris went after his family” and “she has a medical condition.”
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Everyone is someone’s family, this just sounds like some emotionally weak man child shit.
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Going bald is not magically a medical condition that’s off limits in comedy just because it’s happening to a woman.
Dude, insulting someone’s spouse at an awards ceremony is scummy behaviour that would rile anyone up, and Alopecia is definitely a medical condition.
Chris Rock was riffing on many celebrities, like most comedians at these type of events. Many of them have spouses as well. Smith is a bitch Boi.
Alopecia’s only symptom is hair loss. Is male pattern baldness now off the table? I suspect not.
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Chris Rock is a fucking loser. I don’t know why people care about this incident at all. Oh, that’s right. It’s because women bad, even on this Lemmy bullshit.
@Stamets I don’t understand the joke
I can explain.
Will Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith, has sex with other men behind his back. She has been public about this on her own talk show.
@swab148 where is the humor though
You can deconstruct the joke as you like.
The “whore” part was unnecessary, but the joke is that Chris Rock joked her during the Oscar, Will went on stage and slapped him.
There isn’t any, they’re just being assholes to someone who lashed out after having his family insulted.
Because insulting someone’s spouse to their face is fine, but violence is a no-no.
“Women who cheat are whores”
Nice misogyny and devaluation of sex work.
Apparently they were harassing them for awhile which was the context you probably weren’t told.
Doubtful but even if they were that doesn’t give anyone the right to assault someone on international television and then throw a hissy fit, screaming and swearing.
This just reeks of civility politics. Because that’s gotten us so far up to this point.
Ah yes. “Dont punch people in the face.” That famous and well known political stance.
Huh, what’s the matter? I thought you liked civility. I guess only when it’s on your side.
No, you don’t get it. They’re allowed to be rude, but nobody else is.
You’re losing the argument when you resort to insulting the person you’re talking to, as far as I’m concerned.
Not really, I’m pointing out your style of debate would be better suited to Hexbear, who love to flood a chat with their gifs in lieu of an intelligent reply.
Now, go be among your people.
Somes gonna get the little nanites squirted into them, but not the robot.
Chris Rock kinda deserved that, it was a massive dick move on his behalf.
Don’t Will and Jada Smith run a scientology school for indoctrination of kids or something? I think there might be different opinions on who deserves what on this scenario.
Oh, their family dynamic is broken and they’re terrible people, don’t get me wrong.
None of this justifies making fun of someone with a medical condition though.
The joke was in poor taste, sure, but that doesn’t justify assault.
Besides, comedians being assaulted for telling jokes is becoming increasingly common and a supposed role model like Will Smith doing it likely normalised it further.
Let me put it this way, if that happened in a pub nobody would think much of it. People like Chris expect to be assholes without consequences.
Not true on either count.
Assault is neither an expected nor an acceptable consequence of a comedian doing his job, no matter how offensively he might do it.
Chris Rock probably suspected that he might get some flak in the press and maybe boos as a consequence of his mean joke and that would be warranted. Assaulting him wasn’t.
Nah, you don’t get to say absolutely anything without consequences, especially going after someone’s family like that. It was a low blow, and he should be ashamed of himself.
you don’t get to say absolutely anything without consequences
I’ve already made it abundantly clear that I agree with that. Still doesn’t make assault acceptable.
It was a low blow, and he should be ashamed of himself.
True, but so should Will Smith and he is.
Naw dawg. You’re just an idiot if you think it was a good idea to assault somebody on national TV for “dominance”. Pathetic.
Who said anything about dominance? What the hell are you on about?
Will Smith and his dumbass kid did on social media in the days after it. His kid said something like “YEAH! THAT’S HOW WE DO IT OUR FAMILY. AIN’T GONNA MAKE US A BITCH.”
And then Will Smith said something similar in his “apology” that his “bad brain” took over and needed to assert his stance because somebody challenged him.
No better way to sound like an asshole than to revert to knuckle dragging tactics when you’ve not been actually threatened at all.
Chris had a history of going after Jada maliciously. I wasn’t just a one off comedic joke.
Doesn’t justify the attack but I wonder how many people would be cool with Chris insulting their wife over a decade and know its not just joking but actually trying to put her down over and over again finally ripping on her medical condition in front of all her peers and fans in the industry. That’s her job and in front of all her bosses and people who could hire her, here’s Chris calling her an ugly actress.
I didn’t actually know that, what an asshole. I thought this was a one off thing.
Just forget it, these idiots would need people to love before they understood defending them.
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Piss off to Hexbear with your shitty gif replies, buddy.
