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3 years ago
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So it's been a little over a week since I learned of a hair condition I never knew of in over forty years. The significance is, my family has lots of baldness on the male and female sides, and I have Trichotillomania, so, y'know. I thought I was aware of everything hair-loss related. The expectation that it's common knowledge, recognizeable at a glance and so much worse than clubbing baby seals to make it the subject of a joke that instant violent response is necessary is kind of ludicrous.
I had another thought, which is based on my initial reaction to the GI Jane joke. It might not be about the hair.
Just prior to roasting the Smiths, Rock is joking about another married couple both being nominated for Oscars, and how Will needs to win if the other guy's wife loses. He then pivots to saying he's looking forward to seeing Jada in a sequel to a movie that's not being made, is over twenty years old, and was kind of controversial and disliked when it did come out.
Show me how you say someone is irrelevant without saying they're irrelevant.
Especially when the 2016 joke about not being invited to the Oscars is considered, I wonder if the issue was the joke was layered, with a deeper sting underneath a relatively excusable one.
Anyhow, still no excuse for slapping someone.
Anyhow-anyhow: at least the Ukraine seems to be winning right now.
I had another thought, which is based on my initial reaction to the GI Jane joke. It might not be about the hair.
Just prior to roasting the Smiths, Rock is joking about another married couple both being nominated for Oscars, and how Will needs to win if the other guy's wife loses. He then pivots to saying he's looking forward to seeing Jada in a sequel to a movie that's not being made, is over twenty years old, and was kind of controversial and disliked when it did come out.
Show me how you say someone is irrelevant without saying they're irrelevant.
Especially when the 2016 joke about not being invited to the Oscars is considered, I wonder if the issue was the joke was layered, with a deeper sting underneath a relatively excusable one.
Anyhow, still no excuse for slapping someone.
Anyhow-anyhow: at least the Ukraine seems to be winning right now.
And as for Jada if she was that fucking self conscious about her hair would have wore a fucking wig/weave to hide it and not end up as the butt of a COMEDIANS joke. That's what Chris started as a standup comedian, and you can never leave it.
The fact that I've been subjected to asininely detailed analysis of this irrelevant event at a irrelevant event that no one cares about is inherently sad because I think I shouldn't know about any of it.
Her vet and I stumbled on an insanely simple treatment that the vet published in a trade magazine a dozen years ago. The article had a picture of him holding Syd.
Now, I wish I could come up with some sort of shaggy dog story tying all this to Jada Pinkett Smith, but it's almost 1:00 AM and I'm half asleep...
(Golly I'm such a dork for posting this)
There are a lot of people digging into the past, showing the Smiths' Red Table talks, Rock's previous hosting of the Oscars, and a bunch of analysis.
Also, I was in a poly* relationship for a little over three years and that imparts a certain perspective.
Also-also... Will's reaction immediately afterwards is... not an unexpected one for somebody involved in violence, even though he initiated it. I don't think he's naturally violent. It appears he lost control of his emotions and was having a full-on breakdown. I don't know what got him wound so tight that he snapped, but I have been present at a similar incident where one of my friends punched another, and meant it. The target in that incident de-escalated much like Rock did.
So a lot of it 'feels' very familiar and understandable to me, even though I'm in another country watching it on TV.
And like
I understood it to be the early version of the long-form propaganda we're drowning in now. I don't know.