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Will Smith hits Chris Rock on Oscars stage
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Man of Honour
Who are you?
Man of Honour
I'm a cop you idiot! I'm Detective John Kimble!
Soldato
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Celebrities could have been slapping each other at awards shows this whole time? What were we just ******* around for?!
Exactly, this wasn't some shady pub where you need to "defend the wife's honour", this was an award show where jokes are told, and everyone who attended knew this.
Will Smith is more than happy to make jokes about sleeping with Margot Robbie's mother, but doesn't like it when jokes come back to his family. Presumably the people defending Smith would also think it's perfectly acceptable for Margot Robbie's father to hit Smith?
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Soldato
This. For people saying if someone came up to a stranger in a pub and made a mild joke about their wife then they'd get a punch:
1. I think the majority of men wouldn't actually go straight to hitting them however sharp their keyboard is - a 'wtf you talking about' would come first in most instances I think, some immediately squaring up and getting in their face, and only a small number going to hit them as a first response.
2. An awards show hosted by a comedian is a completely different context to stranger coming up to you at a dodgy pub.
Man of Honour
He was just method acting for his new movie, The Pursuit of Slappiness.
Cracking jokes about sleeping with someone's mum....that's fair 'bants' in my book.
Mocking someone's wife's illness is not.
I'm pretty sure most people would agree there's a line, and it's somewhere between those two actions.
Caporegime
He only said her shaved head, he mention nothing about her illness.
She also made an tweet or instagram post about "they can joke about it now!" before this, then when Rock did...and all this?
Probably best you and Smith stay out of the comedy clubs then if you can't take a joke about a shaved head.
She has alopecia, keep up
This is an important factor for me. It can be utterly devastating for a woman to lose her hair. It's not the same as a man losing it. To laugh at that is stepping over the line.
Caporegime
They made jokes about Roman Polanski, the bar is way low.
Caporegime
Why does she not wear a weave if she is sensitive about it?
I like Will Smith, until that simping.
I like Will Smith, until that simping.
Are you the joke police?
She used to wear headscarves, I believe she wanted to face it full and own having alopecia so she decided to shave her hair and embrace it.
Not sure what you are on about. We are in a thread discussing an event last night. Bit of a strange response from you.
No, but don't cry like a baby if you get slapped by one of the few folk to actually police it.
Im not going to defend the joke because it was poor, but the response wasn’t warranted.
You can’t physically assault someone like that on account of a joke. It didn’t show courageousness, it showed weakness on Smith’s part. It didn’t show wisdom either, it showed pure impulsiveness and an inability to control one’s self. It didn’t recapture his wife’s honour either, it had actually made what would have been a forgettable moment something that will be remembered forever, and not in a good way.
He could have confronted Rock and demanded an apology for example. But to default to physical assault, that only serves to reflect badly on Smith. You can’t set a precedent where it’s ok to assault comedians either.