The quip prompted Will Smith to storm the stage and slap Rock in the face. Roxane Gay has used writing as a means to untangle and communicate her own trauma since childhood.
I wrote a defense of thin skin and how are you if you don’t want to joke, Īt the Oscars, presenter Chris Rock made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s bald head, remarking that she should star in a sequel to G.I. She added: “It was also a rare moment when a woman was publicly defended.
But she tried to rationalize his behavior, saying he ‘most likely saw his wife’s pain, and it’s possible he himself experienced a moment of frailty, thin skin’.
She doesn’t have a right to discuss anything she wishes on any platform, and she particularly doesn’t have the right to be paid for it. Like Yannopoulos, she has many other opportunities to talk about whatever she likes. Gay hasn’t excused Will Smith’s physical assault at the Oscars. And Gay is wrong about that being censorship, even in the colloquial rather than the legal sense. It’s a rejection of the expectation that we laugh at everything people want to say and do to us. It’s a repudiation of the relentless valorization of taking a joke, of having a sense of humor. Roxane Gay has a knack for turning uncomfortable truths into necessary reading. Monday night on The Daily Show With Trevor Noah, the author spoke about her trauma as a child, being gang raped at 12 years old as a Catholic school student. “It’s a defense of limits and of being human and of having your limits respected. This is not a defense of Will Smith, who does not need me to defend him. In his column, Gay compared Jada Pinkett Smith to Supreme Court nominee Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, saying the two women shouldn’t have to endure insults and disrespect while under the control of the public. Roxane Gay: Will Smith Was Wrong, but Being Thin-Skinned Is Not. Donald Trump allowed right-wing Christians to finally vote for Caligula, Judas, and the Golden Calf all in one convenient package because when you worship power, you cannot worship the teachings of Jesus, who. New York Times Contributor Roxane Gay has written a column in defense of humorlessness in which she argues that black women like actress Jada Pinkett Smith shouldn’t have to tolerate jokes made at their expense like the one Chris Rock told at the Oscars on Sunday, prompting Will Smith to charge the stage and punch the comedian in the face. Donald Trump is Jesus to followers of Jesus who’ve rejected the teachings of Jesus.