What's with the shaming of Will for choosing to have an open relationship? So many comments here in bad taste.
Because she makes him out to look bad
Open relationships work when they're discreet. She fucked another dude extremely publicly to the point where a guy like me, who hasn't followed any of it, understands what happened just from some memes and jokes.
I've done open relationships in the past and I've never been disrespected like that. If I ever did, even in my early days when my frame control and abundance mentality was borderline white knight, I would have left. That's a part of why he gets shamed for it because he can't leave. EVEN THOUGH he would easily have a horde of groupies lined up willing to do whatever he wanted, which makes it worse in my opinion. Like yeah, he's pussy whipped to the max, but he's still rich, famous, good-looking, hard-working and fairly charismatic when he wants to be. Lots of fans even still.
The other part of the equation is that she's got him wrapped around her finger. She doesn't respect him, she doesn't love him and it doesn't look like she even wants him around. He thought the joke was funny at first. Then she gave him the side eye and then he goes up and slaps Chris. Over an extremely tame joke.
Anyway, the event looked pretty legit to me. Pretty low of Chris Rock to joke about someone who is battling with an autoimmune disease. I don't blame Will Smith for bitch slapping him and I'd imagine quite a lot of people would do likewise. Although, the optimal response would have been to diss Chris back.
Completely out of the realm of acceptable responses. If you go to a show, where it's known that you're going to get roasted and you sit in the front then you should expect to get roasted.
That's like me going to an Andrew Shultz show and then getting butthurt because he decided to make fun of me. Comedians roast people. They're not doing it maliciously, it's all in good fun. And from what little I've seen of Chris Rock, the guy isn't stupid and is at least observational enough to notice when a joke is starting to cross the line. And caveat, I haven't actually seen the Oscars (because why? lol) but if I'm not mistaken I believe that was the only joke Chris made towards the Smith 'family'. Which means that they could have just let it go and it would have been forgotten in like 20 seconds.
Will made everything 10x worse by making it a big deal. The same way we can frame sex as not a big deal to women, same coulda been done here. But instead Jada framed it as a big deal, then Will framed it as a bigger deal and here we are; criticizing a once great man who most of us would wish would leave that harpy and go back to being the Will Smith most of us remember.
Now, if he made like 3+ jokes in a row and just wouldn't stop, that would be a little different. But still, you start with trying to get them to back off first. Because that's all the vast majority of people need is just a little verbal "knock it off". If, however, he would have kept going afterwards then sure, I'd personally be more forgiving of Will as I'm sure a lot of other people would have been as well. But that's not what happened
