i have to assume that people are projecting all the shit they're repressing about the slow crumbling of civilization as we know it and the imminent death of the planet onto this For Some Reason because my god in heaven.

so much concern trolling and pearl clutching and calls for fainting couches and loss of oscars and stripping of academy membership... where was this energy for the child rapists and the regular rapists and the sex pests and the racists?

right like

the feelings are
very strong

this is absurd

the feelings are disproportionately strong, there has to be something else in the zeitgeist

I get liking or not liking what happened but the levels of energy put into this....

for fuck's sake, it's chris rock! man has made his career on offending people

no actual harm was done, and to be honest if I had slap a motherfucker money I'd've done the same thing

like okay chris rock had an ouchy face for a day or two but he could also get that doing rich person sports or whatever, Who Cares Not Me

He talked shit. You know what happens when you do that.

exactly

where were these people when black men were actually getting hurt

and not just getting their just comeuppance for shitting on a black woman

Also, this isn't the first time Chris Rock has made Jada a butt of his joke.

kadath: apparently we're not to view it through that lens because Jada cheated on Will and Will is a cuck/simp/wimp for not keeping his woman in line etc. the fact that will also has copped to multiple affairs because they appear to have an open or understanding relationship is not factoring in

so add some delightful misogyny from ALL corners to the discourse....

oh god yes, the number of people making cracks about will being more upset about someone talking shit about Jada than he is about Jada's affairs...

maybe - bear with me, I know it sounds radical - but maybe, just maybe, he loves his wife without feeling sexually possessive or jealous of her

(naturally, phrased in much grosser and disrespectful ways)

also if they're both okay with the other sleeping around it ain't an affair it's an open goddamned relationship

I also keep seeing people saying "he was laughing at the joke first", as if people don't sometimes laugh when they're uncomfortable?

there is no betrayal if you're not violating the established and agreed-on rules of the relationship

also Fake Laughing is an oscar tradition.

the only correct takes i've seen about this are "Both of them were wrong, but Will's actions were way more sympathetic." and "White people should shut up."

yeah