BOAT SHOWBOAT posted:

Alopecia is sometimes funny

ruddiger posted:

checkplease posted:

Best tracks on Dune soundtrack? Gotta listen to it again now that’s it’s a winner.

lezard_valeth posted:

BOAT SHOWBOAT posted:

Ai-yai-yai, the pearl clutching about a mediocre joke compared to the normalisation of violence is genuinely odd.

As is claiming Chris Rock's joke is sexist without considering the gender implications of what Will Smith did.

Will Smith was publicly humiliated in the public consciousness with the August Alsina 'entanglements' debacle, with memes galore about him being a cuck.

Attacking Chris Rock and the tirade "leave my wife's name out of it" (notably the emphasis being on the possessive quality of it - a male ego contest - not calling her 'Jada' etc.,) was an unleashing of that and a projection of trying to be an alpha male, meanwhile looking insecure and out of control instead.

Women are capable of speaking for themselves - men punching other men for violating their 'possessions' because the other men joked about them, is not a good thing to encourage. If Jada Pinkett-Smith was upset with the joke, she could have spoke out afterwards etc., using her own voice. Instead Will robbed her of that in an act of violent narcissism. "It's the role of men to protect women by beating up men who make jokes about women, who should never be joked about" is not a progressive attitude.

BOAT SHOWBOAT posted:

I've been in some .... hairy situations

BOAT SHOWBOAT posted:

I've been in some .... hairy situations

KVeezy3 posted:

In that case, you know that there is some nuance here. I'm not trying to make some kind of 'badass test' to bar people from talking, but asked because the way you've described what happened is strange. Like your analysis of this incident includes the righteousness of punching/someone getting beat up for making innocuous comments and alpha/cuck rhetoric, when what happened was Rock getting checked.

Mechafunkzilla posted:

This is real dumb, and if you're going to play the "do you fight" card, I'd encourage you to stop by the martial arts thread and ask people who actually know how to fight what they think about slapping as a form of social sanction. Escalating a situation to make it physical makes it more dangerous in basically all cases. And if the person getting slapped has as poor impulse control as the person doing the slapping, then what? You're going to explain that you weren't actually starting a fight, just "checking", while they take a swing at you? The idea that it's alright to put your hands on someone because they insulted you or yours is a childish, socially poisonous idea.

KVeezy3 posted:

I did not say it was a socially good/neutral thing to do. What I was pushing back against was the description of what happened as Smith as beating up/punching out Rock to repress his cucking.

KVeezy3 posted:

Have you ever been in a fight?

KVeezy3 posted:

In that case, you know that there is some nuance here. I'm not trying to make some kind of 'badass test' to bar people from talking, but asked because the way you've described what happened is strange. Like your analysis of this incident includes the righteousness of punching/someone getting beat up for making innocuous comments and alpha/cuck rhetoric, when what happened was Rock getting checked.

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

chris rock got slapped by a rich person

BOAT SHOWBOAT posted:

Ai-yai-yai, the pearl clutching about a mediocre joke compared to the normalisation of violence is genuinely odd.

BOAT SHOWBOAT posted:

Yeah I'm on the side of dumb jokes more than hitting people

being pro-slap is the 2022 version of the 2007 version of wearing a fedora

CelticPredator posted:

Jokes hurt people too.

Timeless Appeal posted:

I'm willing to eat poo poo on this comment because I'm white AF, but it was also kind of bizarre to make a jab about a Black lady with a shaved head because that's not that unusual. Not that it would be okay if she was a different race, but I didn't know about Jada's condition, and she didn't look out of the ordinary to me. I have friends and coworkers who have chosen to go pretty close to shaved. I feel like with the context after the fact it felt kinda hard to not to feel like he knew about the condition was being actively lovely.

But then again, the whole, "Javier you're gonna sleep on the couch if you win and Penelope doesn't! WOKA WOKA" bit points to Rock just kinda being a hack these days.

Karloff posted:

'Checking’ people in order to get people to stop insulting you or your loved ones isn’t really a thing in the UK. People don't go around slapping each other in order to enforce good behaviour, and if they do they are very likely to get their head kicked in.

There was the happy slapping moral panic but that was a whole other thing.

Karloff posted:

'Checking' people in order to get people to stop insulting you or your loved ones isn't really a thing in the UK. People don't go around slapping each other in order to enforce good behaviour, and if they do they are very likely to get their head kicked in. But then again health care is free should that happen.

There was the happy slapping moral panic but that was a whole other thing.

Karloff posted:

'Checking' people in order to get people to stop insulting you or your loved ones isn't really a thing in the UK. People don't go around slapping each other in order to enforce good behaviour, and if they do they are very likely to get their head kicked in. But then again health care is free should that happen.

There was the happy slapping moral panic but that was a whole other thing.

BiggestBatman posted:

THe subtext of the joke andy dick made about phil hartman ("I made his wife kill him and I'll do it to your wife too") is inarguably far worse than the one chris rock made ("lol you have a no hair disease")

Karloff posted:

'Checking' people in order to get people to stop insulting you or your loved ones isn't really a thing in the UK. People don't go around slapping each other in order to enforce good behaviour, and if they do they are very likely to get their head kicked in. But then again health care is free should that happen.

There was the happy slapping moral panic but that was a whole other thing.

checkplease posted:

Best tracks on Dune soundtrack? Gotta listen to it again now that’s it’s a winner.

CelticPredator posted:

YOLOsubmarine posted:

It’s bad that the slap happened because it’s caused you to post in this thread, where I ended up reading the posts.