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?

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. 

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

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.

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

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

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.

Waning celebrity wife publicly ‘cuckolds’ (emasculates) her Leading Man celebrity husband for ‘Likes’ on social media for years. His public image forbids him from reacting in a manner equal to his larger than life ego for fear of tarnishing his squeaky clean reputation. He then lashes out with violent machismo in a…

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?

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…

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.

Growing up I had this weird seizure-type disorder. It has a long name and it’s hard to describe the physical effects but essentially when I stood, I’d seize up and if I tried to move my face would contort and I’d drag my leg and I couldn’t speak. Sometimes in a really bad one, I fell down. This started in puberty and…

“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…

Also, in “really sucks to be Chris Rock”:

I was convinced that Kanye would be emboldened to threaten violence against Pete Davidson again after he witnessed all the support Will Smith got for claiming “love” made him do it to “protect” his family.

I generally don’t comment on other people’s appearance, even complimentary, for a reason. People are sensitive about it, and you never know what the reason might be behind an appearance. Who knows if the weight loss you noticed or whatever is a source of pride or a source of angst? A lot of people’s lives would have…

I’m surprised how many people are defending Will Smith here. I’ve been married to a guy who liked to “throw hands” if someone disrespected me. It made me feel terrible and sick to my stomach any time he acted that way. I’d beg please just let it go! But no. He loved to escalate the situation.

Lupita Nyong’o’s  expression behind Will Smith’s shoulder. 😂