Good take. Being a comedian doesn’t mean someone can say whatever cruel thing they want with impunity BUT I’m sick of people acting like it’s the end of the world anytime a comedian says something insensitive. Award shows like the Oscars, Golden Globes, have a very long history of making insensitive jokes at the…

This. The fact that she still has what appears to be her natural eyebrows and what appears to be some hair growth means that Jada doesn’t even have the most severe form of alopecia.

My main thing is, I and everyone I spoke about this with, had no idea Jada has alopecia. I can only imagine most people are in the same boat and felt like we had missed something. I honestly wondered if she had been secretly undergoing chemo, based on Will’s response.

Well, I’m not sure Regina King basically saying “Will, I want to fuck you and I’m allowed even though you’re married because you have an open marriage” is actually all that emasculating?

My aunt died of ALS last month. That’s a real autoimmune disease. Every nerve in your body stops working while you slowly suffocate to death. Alopecia is bad luck. Nothing to slap a man over, or do more than groan at a bad joke and move on with your still gorgeous face, body, dress, family, many more years, and…

But really, the jibe comparing a haircut to a 25 year old film is what causes him to assault someone.

I’ve defended my wife in public. Not once did it risk becoming physical. Smith comes off like a lunatic here, especially since his first reaction was to laugh at the joke.

LMAO, people actually believed the guy accepting an award for best ACTOR gave a sincere apology and not a desperate face-saving, narrative-swapping PERFORMANCE a few minutes after slapping a dude in the face like a drunk spring breaker.

lol Alopecia is NOT a life threatening disease, and she has literally millions of dollars to alleviate her issues with losing her hair. My brother has alopecia. The dude from Barry has alopecia.

The whole slap was a stupid overreaction that has caused them more issues than it solved. The joke itself wasn’t even particularly offensive or insulting. All Will Smith did was call attention to something that 99.9% of the world didn’t see or had already forgotten about and opened him and Jada up to far greater…

“sick”

SO edgy, SO shocking, to make a joke about someone with alopecia.  Oh wait...alopecia is the main cause of hair loss for people across the globe...and dudes get made fun of it all day every day and nobody gives a shit...and its not an illness...  Is it mean?  Sure.  Does it warrant *literally assaulting someone*?  No,…

He declined to file a complaint. The DA’s office decides whether to file charges, which they won’t.

Of course that’s Jezebel’s takeaway, would you expect any different? They also thought there wasn’t enough Ukraine coverage and that Zelensky should have taken time off from Russia invading his country to address a room full of actors via zoom. I’m not even joking.

He said a joke to her face with is better than making jokes about people not present. And if Will ahd reacted apüportiatly - i.e. fough back with words - we’d all be talking about whether or not the joke was too tasteless. As is - if your respond to words with fists, you lose the argument by default.

It wasn’t a super funny joke, and Will Smith can absolutely call him out on a not funny joke. But it also wasn’t the sharpest barb ever made at anyone for Will Smith to react so violently. I mean, just an hour earlier, Regina Hall had made a pretty clear joke about their open marriage. That certainly seemed more…

Isn’t making tasteless jokes at the expense of people sitting in the front of the audience 95% of the hosts’ jobs?  Go look at some of the stuff they used to throw at Jack Nicholson or Warren Beatty.

Absolutely. It was a joke in terrible taste. But… you can’t hit people because they made you mad. That’s still assault.

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