During the commercial break -
https://twitter.com/ScottFeinberg/status/1508273120473325573 .
"During the commercial break, Will Smith is pulled aside and comforted by Denzel Washington and Tyler Perry, who motion for him to brush it off. Will appears to wipe tears from his eyes as he sits back down with Jada, with Denzel comforting Jada and Will’s rep by his side."
Erm...Will was comforted? Are we forgetting who was assaulted here?
My opinion is this:
It really boils down to whether or not Chris knew the reason for why Jada was losing her hair, when he made a joke about it.
Furthermore, even if Chris did know she had alopecia, from what I can tell from reading online, she shaved her head voluntarily. Clumps of it were probably falling out, and she just chose to do away with it all. In that case, her hairstyle may be more personal choice than directly caused by medical status.
It's perhaps a less extreme case of what happened with Angelina Jolie, who had a double mastectomy, not necessarily due to direct medical necessity, but due to the possibility of future issues, medically.
Also...I think given this is Hollywood after all, people virtue-signal a lot. Dare I say that Angelina Jolie's actions were somewhat based on the possibility that she wanted to virtue-signal? Lord knows that she has many times before.
One other point: some medical tests today are WAY TOO SENSITIVE. The PCR test for the virus for example - it can test people "positive" who have rates of the virus up to ONE THOUSAND TIMES lower than that which causes infection!! So NO ONE should be tested unless they present to hospital with infection! Everything else - including the ongoing masking and quarantine of healthy people JUST DRIVES HYSTERIA.
Likewise, there HAVE been healthy people who have had limbs amputated who barely had more than a few cancer cells! While we should be grateful that we have such sensitive testing to help us determine if we have medical issues way earlier than they will actually cause us problems, we need to be aware how overly sensitive these tests are, and act accordingly.
Lastly, regarding Alopecia, and back to the point:
Was Chris aware that Jada had a medical condition? If he didn't know, then he was ultimately just making fun of her hairstyle. If he did know, then ok - that changes things, in terms of his intentions. But if she just had a couple of bald spots and chose to shave her head bald because of it, that would still make her hairstyle largely voluntarily.
As for Will, let's be clear here: he committed assault. How justified that was morally - if not legally - is in dispute. Legally, it is not.
If I had to guess, Jada has been sad about losing her hair [apparently she has posted that online a lot], and she has probably been made fun of for her hair a lot.
I don't think Will would just do that out of the blue. I think something led to it, like years of pressure from being in the public eye and insulted there, and years of witnessing his family experience the same thing.
I understand Will's position though. I get it.
Heck, I'd have probably at the very least yelled at Chris to not mention my wife, in the same way he did. Whether or not I would go up to Chris like that would depend on a lot of things...personal history between myself and someone, for example.
Is this the 100th time Chris Rock made fun of Will Smith or his wife? If so...I can understand why Will was so upset.
