Both of you are right and neither position is mutually exclusive. Smith shouldn’t have hit Rock, that was a terrible thing to do and he is lucky Rock isn’t pressing charges. Yet at the same time Smith did something most common people would do in his situation, I don’t condone it but I don’t think it is so beyond the pale or that Smith is some demon.
People have been slapped over better jokes, over worse jokes and over more offensive jokes than Chris’ joke he made yesterday. People have been slapped with less reason and for greater reasons. Smith had a bad, impulsive but human reaction to a joke he realised was in poor taste.
Yep there most likely are not that celebrities ever follow them or face real consequences for doing so. But they are being followed since the Academy is opening a formal review of last night’s show as well as officially condemning Smith’s actions. Also I doubt it ruined the show since it finished airing in its whole, I mean I saw a picture of Andrew Garfield looking at his socials the moment the slap hit so the show can’t have been interesting before or after it.
It is just people far richer than me getting into a stupid tiff that means nothing in the grand universal scheme of reality and after today my ability to tolerate discussion of it will be non-existent and my capacity to care about this incident is this single iota right now. The most I will say now is that it sucks that this stupid slap has overshadowed Coda’s historic wins at last nights awards.
The thing is it’s not a life threating illness at all. She’s just balding. I agree that the joke was of poor taste but at the same time, there are simular jokes about bald men which usually go over fine.
True but some people are just really sensitive that they are balding and I think it would be doubly so if it was a woman who was balding. Not everyone is going to have the same reaction to a joke and so too will another person with that person.
I hated jokes my friends made about how smart I am, how tall I am and how I developed earlier than any other boys in my school. They all laughed but sometimes I just wanted to deck them but sadly I am a real person in the real world so rules applied to me and I followed them. One kid made your mother jokes in PE but when I made jokes about his mother he tried driving me headfirst into a wall.
In the U.S. at least, it seems that it’s permissible to make fun of men for anything at any time and no one cares but if you make the same comment about women, it’s Armageddon. It’s a double-standard that I’m not saying is right, but it does exist.
I get what your saying but I still have to disagree. Not to say that you can’t take a joke too far but IMO, jokes generally come at someone’s expense, including the comedian themselves. That’s how its been for more than thirty years and this is nowhere even close to the most offensive joke Chirs Rock has ever told. It’s only in recent times that the world has become more and more sensitive about it.
Well, rather people want to admit it or not, the world has always lived in double standards.
There’s a 3,500 year old tablet that was found in what used to be Babylon. On it were inscribed six riddles. One of them is apparently the oldest known “yo mama” joke. Among them include:
“He gouged out the eye. It is not the fate of a dead man. He cut the throat: A dead man. Who is it”
“A governor”
The only remaining legible part of the “yo mama” joke is “…of your mother is by the one who has intercourse with her. What/who is it?”
High comedy? Certainly not, but that’s the Babylonians for you.
Nah man he’s a comedian. It’s his job to poke fun at people. Jadas own tweet long ago said she just had to laugh about it. Even if she had cancer instead of alopecia., it’s still a joke, you’re a celebrity, have thicker skin.
All that said, I thumbs up Will giving him a slap simply bc It was super entertaining. Huge respect to Chris Rock for not pressing any charges.
You can enlist directly into the seals. The army special forces only take guys with experience who can still keep up physically. A lot of guys enlist on an army Ranger contract and then try to get into the specialised world.
Perhaps, but for the purpose of this question, if you were being held hostage by a hostile group, which force would you like to be on the job of rescuing you?
To be clear, unlike the propaganda that the military puts out in its commercials that always shows our military as heroes rescuing civilians and refugees, I know that that is not the real job of the military. The purpose of any military is to kill the enemies of the nation they represent. Full stop. Anything else they are assigned to do is just because they’re the ones best capable to do it and they are not currently assigned to killing any enemies. But that is what they are for. I don’t deride them for it, militaries have helped stop some awful things in the past, and they’ve of course done awful things. But I prefer people to be honest about what they are really there for: to kill on the behalf of the controlling interests. Still, no denying, these units are badass.
