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Comment by Nerida on April 3, 2022 at 5:53pm

Will was laughing when the joke was made.  I'm sure he is regretting hitting Chris but also about laughing at the joke.  

Comment by dreamscometrue on April 2, 2022 at 5:28pm

To me, people like Bill Maher and people that do NOT understand black culture as it pertains to hair, really need to be quiet on this one, as well as those same people who applaud Chris Rock and his hypocritical juxtaposition with his documentary Good Hair.  There are things within the black experience some people do not understand, and probably never understand.  If he wanted to explain something to his daughter, that could have easily been a private conversation, but he put it on the big screen for all to see, and equate his position as one who understood the experience from a personal POV.  I think this event opened the need to explain something POC have been freaking with for a few centuries now, and some need to see it is painful because of having to deal with perceived stigmas.  I don't like the violent part of the event, however, one doesn't negate the other, but still, imo, Chris Rock is a hypocrite.  Thank you, @Cindie for the compliment :)  It's only my humble opinion based on my experience but only as a person with AU, but as a black person with AU, having lived my black experience.

Comment by Dollhead on April 2, 2022 at 4:51pm

More fallout from CR's "joke". According to Bill Mahr, all you've gotta do is "slap a wig on your head, and stop complaining."

https://www.thewrap.com/bill-maher-jada-pinkett-smith-alopecia-wig/

Comment by GardenGal on April 2, 2022 at 2:45pm

I don't believe CR was trying to slam Jada Smith. She looks cute with her shaved head as many women without alopecia do. One does not look at her and immediately think "oh she has alopecia". Now if I were sitting in in here place with my shaved and crazy patchy head the first thing you would notice is my alopecia and not how cute I look with a shaved head. I think CR made a mistake but I do not think harm was his intent.

Comment by SabineTawni on April 2, 2022 at 10:36am

DeeDee, Why do you feel it was Will Smith's job to teach Chris Rock how to act?  I think Chris Rock should know who to act.  I hardly think also that the Academy Awards should be a place where someone who has an autoimmune disease should have to use it as a "teaching moment".  Again, Will Smith was very wrong, but Chris Rock crossed a line.

Comment by SabineTawni on April 2, 2022 at 9:14am

Dollhead, Go get 'em!!  Your posts are perfect in getting across the whole point of why what Chris Rock did was so inappropriate.  Funny how those so opposed to bullying are giving Chris Rock a free pass on his inappropriate behavior, yet are ready to hang Will Smith out to dry over his.  

I am still waiting for a response to my question asking if those minimizing Rock's mocking of an alopecia areata sufferer would be O.K. with him ridiculing someone with psoriasis or eczema.  Singer Cindy Lauper, I believe, has psoriasis and has been very open about it.  I wonder if she would have been comfortable with Rock's ridiculing her about her disease in front of a full-audience at a public event.  If not, why not?  After all, "IT'S ONLY SKIN'.

Comment by Dollhead on April 1, 2022 at 11:14pm

Will Smith has resigned from the Academy. He has apologized for his actions, and said he will accept whatever discipline the Academy decides to meet out. He admitted what he did was wrong and he did not handle in the best way.

Meanwhile, CR is enjoying sold-out shows, people twisting themselves into knots to bend over backwards to defend him on here and outside of this forum, which is both disheartening and disappointing. He has made no apology for the mess he created, no public statement. He turned around, and left others to clean up the mess and be affected by it because he "has to process what happened". Poor baby! Maybe we should get you a fainting couch so you can have a nice vantage point from which to watch the havoc you, CR, started. Maybe we should get you a fiddle so you can play it as you lie there and watch things burn.

Of course actions have consequences, but it looks like CR won't be held accountable for his.

If the "G.I. Jane" comment was such a compliment, we wouldn't be here having this discussion. If it were such a badge of honor, there wouldn't have been the article I posted about a woman with alopecia who cried all night over the remark.

Oh, and Ricky Gervais said in an article he wouldn't have made the joke in the first place, but he would have made "a joke about her boyfriend".

Again, people are ignoring the point more than a middle child gets ignored at a family dinner. CR made fun and humiliated a person with an autoimmune disease in front of the whole world, and people are making him out to be the victim and the hero.

Shake. My. Damn. Head.

Comment by Dollhead on April 1, 2022 at 10:30pm

So this should make everybody happy. Will Smith resigned from the Academy. Still haven't heard sh$t of an apology from CR:

https://people.com/movies/will-smith-resigns-from-the-academy-after...

Comment by SabineTawni on April 1, 2022 at 9:28pm

I just have one question to ask of anyone here right now.  If Jada Smith did not have the particular autoimmune disease of alopecia areata, but had a different autoimmune disease, for example, psoriasis or eczema, does anyone here think it would have been appropriate for Chris Rock to make a crude comment mocking their condition on national television in front of a full audience?  Just curious, and wondering, regardless of your answer (YES or NO)--why?

Comment by GardenGal on April 1, 2022 at 7:28pm

Jada Smith, rocking her shaved head,does look a little like GI Jane. I think Chris Rock was trying to compliment her, not insult her. Will has some issues for reacting the way he did.

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