I bet the fathers who commit honor killings love their daughters too, and the men who beat their wives. Love isn’t an excuse or a justification. You can love someone and still be an abusive asshole and still be drowning in toxic masculinity. And if you’re saying you’d act the same trust me your problem isn’t your love…

WTF? That wasn’t chivalry and that isn’t having her back. Smith made it into a spectacle that was all about him. Even more so in that unhinged acceptance speech. He wasn’t defending Jada. Shit, he robbed her of all agency in defending herself. He acted out of long brewing perceived slights against his “manhood” due to…

Men of all races have been committing crimes over real or perceived slights on ‘their’ women, and the problem is that a) they think women belong to them and b) they think ‘their’ women are an extension of themselves and their own honor.

I’ll take false equivalencies for $100 Alex!

Yeah, I got like five different instances of whiplash from Smith’s behavior, and that was just as scary as the assault. That he could swing so wildly from controlled to raged out to controlled again was scary. Going out to a party afterwards and acting like nothing happened, that’s some psycho shit right there. 

Thank you! Love didn’t “make” you do shit--YOU chose to make a huge jackass of yourself, Will. 

“Love makes you do crazy things” - every man who’s ever physically abused a woman.

He didn’t ‘go after her’, he made a corny joke about her that Will thought was funny enough until her saw his wife’s reaction *then* decided to be a ‘hero’. Thank god The Root and Black twitter are having none of Will’s BS but Jezebel is too afraid to call him out.

The normalization of this is twisted and insane.

My takeaway from the last 14 hours is that a large segment of our population thinks that physical violence is the appropriate reaction to a verbal insult, and that physical violence at a formal event full of your peers where you hope to win an award is ok. How far we have fallen.

I’m shocked mostly at the low key acceptance of what was literally physical assault on live television. What if he had walked up and smacked Amy or Wanda or Regina in the face like that? Would the Jezebel crowd still be so nonchalant about it? Would it still be considered acceptable?

And if she did want it to be something that was condemned he hurt that by making it all about him instead of being about her.

“did Will Smith slapping Chris Rock actually make Jada’s life any easier? After all, that’s who this was for, right?”

Exactly.  Rather than her giving an eyeroll and moving on, having the spotlight shift from something she may not want discussed she now can’t turn anywhere with out it being a topic of discussion.  How…

Much like Larry the Cable Guy, Kid Rock also came from wealth. Kid Rock’s dad owned a bunch of car dealerships in Michigan. He lived in a 5,628-square-foot house on a 6-acre property that had horses.

I think before we make peace with the Trump era, we need to make sure there is not a second Trump era.

Every unstable, controlling man is “harmless” until the woman turns up injured or worse. And then it’s that she somehow caused it.

Barely a month out from their breakup, Julia Fox is still singing Kanye West’s praises and insisting he “wouldn’t hurt a fly.”

Wow...like a douchebag Thunderdome. Sadly, I’m pretty sure it would be Vlad throwing a single punch and Musk ducking and retreating to cry and beg in the corner. Elon’s fighting would be of the strictly “Come at me, bro” variety.

...And the loser is shot into a different sun

I’m in!