The word is that you can no longer defend the honor of your family, and your wife.
Will Smith, who I think is a very good actor, and has played diverse roles (another that I like is Denzel Washington, who has a similar wide-reaching acting portfolio) was at the recent Oscars, sitting at the front row with his wife Jada. He was nominated for Best Actor. Before he was to receive the winning prize, the Oscar, the presenter Chris Rock, who took on the role of court jester channeling his stand-up comedy career, was making the usual "comedy" act bad jokes and making fun of the Oscar's attendees - the movie stars.
He glanced down at Smith and his wife and made this "joke,": "G.I. Jane 2,’ can’t wait to see it."
He was referring to a film made by Demi Moore, who played a head-shaved G.I. Jane in the film of the same name:
When a crusading chairperson of the military budget committee pressures the would be Navy secretary to begin full gender integration of the service, he offers the chance for a test case for a female trainee in the US Navy's elite SEAL/C.R.T. selection program. LT. Jordan O'Neill is given the assignment, but no one expects her to succeed in an inhumanly punishing regime that has a standard 60% dropout rate for men. However, O'Neill is determined to prove everyone wrong.
Smith's wife has publicly discussed her medical condition, which causes her hair to fall out. Rather than wear a wig, she has decided to "go bald" for some time.
The weasel Rock's claim to fame in the motion picture department is the film Grown Ups:
In 1978, five 12-year-olds win a CYO basketball championship. Thirty years later, they gather with their families for their coach's funeral and a weekend at a house on a lake where they used to party. By now, each is a grownup with problems and challenges: Marcus is alone and drinks too much. Rob, with three daughters he rarely sees, is always deeply in love until he turns on his next ex-wife. Eric is overweight and out of work. Kurt is a househusband, henpecked by wife and mother-in-law. Lenny is a successful Hollywood agent married to a fashion designer with three kids and his two sons take their privilege for granted. Can the outdoors help these grownups rediscover connections or is this chaos in the making?
Chris Rock played Kurt: "a househusband, henpecked by wife and mother-in-law.
By the way, Rock divorced from his wife of twenty years in 2016. (Yes, Smith has a history of a prior marriage that he says occurred when he was too young and in the whirlwind of his television career in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, a funny, long-running comedy show: "A streetwise, poor young man from Philadelphia is sent by his mother to live with his aunt, uncle and cousins in their Bel-Air mansion." But he has been with his wife for twenty five years now.
Rock does periodic "stand up comedy" shows, which are never funny. They are full of ugly, often sexualized, and racialized, rants, and often at the expense of the audience. So, he knows what he's doing.
It was in this context that he decided that Jada Smith was fair game. He took his chances, and he got Will Smith.
All the "media" fell hard on Smith. Their mantra: violence is never acceptable. None mention Smith's wife, and her predicament. None talk about the sacrosanct family, which the head of the family, the male, is mandated to protect.
It is like the "anti-war" crowd that would rather a country subvert its nation to the enemy, casting away its guns, rather than pull out the necessary ammunition to remove the enemy.
Smith was acting in defense: he was defending his wife, his family, and his own honor. He couldn't let a weasley little man defame all this. It was big.
Of course, the contemporary society doesn't see it this way. ALL violence is bad, they say. But what about Chris Rock's calculated violence, against the ailing wife of his co-actor? He gets off with applause and laughs, while Jada Smith and her family deal every day with her illness, and its consequences.
This may be Hollywood, but it puts a spot light on how contemporary elites work, and whose best interest they have in mind. It is not ours.
The hypocrites at The Social (here is my recent post on them), who for all their "equality" are all about elitism. Their Oscar fashion party, where they talk about ball gowns and glitz, was ruined by a bit of reality. Violence is never good, they say. Lui, who appears to defend Smith is cagey. She just cannot come out unequivocally with "he was defending his wife," but shuffles around with: "can two things be true?" all concerned about her own "inner conflict."
Lui has her say around 5:14 - 5:23, and 6:45 - 7:27 (full video below), but backtracks "Don't get me wrong. I think what he [Will Smith" did was wrong, 100%. But who gets to judge..." She does have a full panel of "Will Haters," after all, who are attacking Will at every opportunity. And her lucrative job at The Social is too good to let go. And of course, she brings up Mel Gibson and compares him to Smith (around 8:10 - 8:23), whose film career was ruined because of his "antisemitism." Loudly, Lui yells "This is NOT a punishment!" wildly gesticulating.
Inner conflict is a terrible thing to have.
Lui: "What do we need?!!!!" - Justice!!!
Here is the full video of yesterday's The Social episode (also posted above).
What these people don't count on is that there are people who stand up for real things.