Las night at the Oscars thing, there was a little confrontation between Will Smith and comedian Chris Rock, to make story short; Chris joked to Smith's wife Jada Pinkett Smith in the audience, Chris said "Jada, I love ya. G.I. Jane 2, can't wait to see ya." eluding Jada's bald head because apparently in the first Jane movie the protagonist shaved her hair. Jada suffers from autoimmune disorder alopecia (which attacks hair follicles, resulting in bald spots and hair loss) Video of the moment:
Now, I don't see these type of awards and I know Oscar's ratings were going down big time, then I saw this confrontation reposted on social media and first thing I though was 'Well, how convenient for the Oscars', but putting on a side the fact that if it was real or not, made me think, if this was real at what point you should let slides jokes like this and compose yourself? Would you have taken the same approach?
I was putting myself in Will's shoes and not knowing what was behind the situation of the wife, maybe there was a lot of suffering or pain behind which triggered Will to act like that, would that give you the right to punch somebody in the face on live television? I would say, 'I don't know' because I've never been in a situation like that when somebody says something hurtful to your loved one. I think I would just shout something along the lines like Will said after he got back to his seat without the slapping, and that's it. But still, depending on the case you may say I would have taken that approach, there is always going to be a line.
On the other hand, these actors should be used to the fact that these comedians are always going to roast you on these events and Will always is preaching ''love'' and other kind of similar messages, and he even laughed a little at the joke Chris made (but I think he didn't fully get the joke at first and didn't see Jada's reaction, I could be wrong) which would make him seem double faced by all this.
So, the question in my mind would be, at what point defending yourself or your loved one from an insult/joke would get you to act this way? If somebody punches me, I would act back, but when it comes to a bad joke or comment, I'm not sure.
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Now, I don't see these type of awards and I know Oscar's ratings were going down big time, then I saw this confrontation reposted on social media and first thing I though was 'Well, how convenient for the Oscars', but putting on a side the fact that if it was real or not, made me think, if this was real at what point you should let slides jokes like this and compose yourself? Would you have taken the same approach?
I was putting myself in Will's shoes and not knowing what was behind the situation of the wife, maybe there was a lot of suffering or pain behind which triggered Will to act like that, would that give you the right to punch somebody in the face on live television? I would say, 'I don't know' because I've never been in a situation like that when somebody says something hurtful to your loved one. I think I would just shout something along the lines like Will said after he got back to his seat without the slapping, and that's it. But still, depending on the case you may say I would have taken that approach, there is always going to be a line.
On the other hand, these actors should be used to the fact that these comedians are always going to roast you on these events and Will always is preaching ''love'' and other kind of similar messages, and he even laughed a little at the joke Chris made (but I think he didn't fully get the joke at first and didn't see Jada's reaction, I could be wrong) which would make him seem double faced by all this.
So, the question in my mind would be, at what point defending yourself or your loved one from an insult/joke would get you to act this way? If somebody punches me, I would act back, but when it comes to a bad joke or comment, I'm not sure.
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. But in a sense because nobody watches Oscars, people that is actors who live off publicity might go overdramatic. Imagine you were adored and bathed in attention, people around you would do anything to touch your hand or get your autograph, and than for 2 years you had to walk with 6 feet of distance between someone. What have I experienced personally because of my work, people's behaviour has changed dramatically! Not only the one's that suffered from corona's mass hysteria that weren't going anywhere or avoided people as much as they can. There were also many people that simply forgot how to behave in society. Overly agressive, vulgar or behaving like we know each other for decades but we don't. Last summer I was unlocking my front door and a guy approaches me and asks: So this is where you live? I never saw that guy before! What kind of a question is that for somebody you've never meet before? Or this guy from my work started to sneak behind me and smell my hair. He has wife at home, he can smell her hair. I know many people got lonely but friendships should be nurtured at all times, also decent behaviour and mental health.
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