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Will Smith Slaps Chris Rock after he jokes about Jada's alopecia
Will Smith punches Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars after he made a joke about his wife's alopecia. Will Smith said "keep my wife's name out of your mouth!"
What are your thoughts?
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Comment by DeeDee on April 1, 2022 at 5:07pm
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I was not impressed with Will's "galant gesture". I may have missed it in the comments but did anyone noticed that he laughed prior to taking the stage to smack Chris. In my opinion, if he were sincere, he would have sat quietly, not laughed, not smacked anyone BUT taken the opportunity to promote AA awareness in his speech and at the same time put Chris in his place.
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I was not impressed with Will's "galant gesture". I may have missed it in the comments but did anyone noticed that he laughed prior to taking the stage to smack Chris. In my opinion, if he were sincere, he would have sat quietly, not laughed, not smacked anyone BUT taken the opportunity to promote AA awareness in his speech and at the same time put Chris in his place.
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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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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?
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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...
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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.
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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'.
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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.
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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.
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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/
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