Oscars 2022: Cracking jokes on Body Shaming in the name of ‘Humour’ is not cool!
Oscars 2022: Internet calls Chris Rock Insensitive for cracking joke on Jada Pinkett Smith Baldness!
Highlights:
- Physical Violence is not the answer but is it fair to crack jokes on someone’s health condition?
- Twitter reacts on Oscars most talked about moment, read the complete article
Will Smith slapping Chris Rock for cracking a joke on his wife made headlines and this moment remained the highlights of Oscars 2022. The viral moment left everyone in shock and the Oscars muted him. Ever since the uncensored video surfaced on the internet, it went viral. Well, everyone is talking about how Smith lost his temper. But a very few are talking about the joke that Chris Rock cracked? People on Twitter discussed was it fair to crack a joke on Jada Pinkett baldness?
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Tweepals pointed out that it is important to understand what kind of humour is acceptable. Sometimes crossing the line or cracking up a joke on something sensitive can trigger another person. In the year 2018, Jada Pinkett Smith announced on her social media that she is suffering from Alopecia. Notably, Alopecia is a medical condition when the immune system attacks hair follicles and one of the main reasons behind it remains severe stress. In Alopecia, an individual loses his or her hair leaving spots on the scalp.
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After the physical Violence episode, Smith received the award of the Best actor. During his acceptance speech, he became emotional and apologized for his behavior by mentioning that Love will make you do crazy things. Well, normalizing violence in the name of love is not a way to deal with offensive humour.
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“Among many comments, a woman pointed out that normalization making fun of women’s bodies for not meeting beauty standards and being insensitive towards someone’s health condition isn’t cool at all.”
Many also pointed out that making fun of someone’s physical appearance is not funny and the slap was well deserved. But we believe violence is not the answer, especially when you are at an event like the Oscars.
“Another man wrote that a real man would stand for his wife and would do the same in such a situation and he doesn’t believe that any anger management technique would work in such a case.”
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Another woman wrote, “We need to understand that actors are humans too and anger is an emotion that makes you unpredictable. Body Shaming and cracking jokes on someone’s health deserves a global slap. I don’t think there was anything wrong with it.”
Talking about India, The Kapil Sharma Show which is everyone’s favourite deals with tonnes of jokes that deal with body shaming. Fat shaming of Kiku Sharda’s character to making fun of Sumona’s lips and height every single time she comes on stage is a common sight on the show. Sadly, we even laugh on it. It is important to draw a line when it comes to humour because humour doesn’t give you a right to insult or hurt someone.
Well, the historic Oscars moment has left people on the internet divided. But we believe in the name of love you cannot normalize violence and in the name of humour you can’t promote body shaming. What Will Smith did cannot be justified but it’s high time we need to rethink what kind of humour we deserve?
What do you think? Let us know in the comments section below.
