Will Smith hit Chris Rock in the face on live TV because of a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith being bald. That’s the whole thing that happened.
She has alopecia and is apparently sensitive about it, and her husband Will knows it. We don’t know if the men who aren’t her husband but sleep with her anyway knew it was upsetting to her, but they had to know she is bald because of it.
After all, she doesn’t wear a wig.
Which Bill Maher pointed out on Friday when saying that she’s a gigantic baby.
Language warning, as usual.
Can I ask about alopecia? Because I must admit, when I, first, I saw the thing on TV, then I go to the Vanity Fair party, great party. And then I didn’t hear about it until then that she had, but you don’t know she had alopecia, and I had heard this word, but it was vague in my mind what it was. So I went like, Oh, well, that’s a very different thing. And then I found out what it is, and I’m like, Oh, no, it’s not that different.
“I mean, if you are so lucky in life as to have that be your medical problem, just say: Thanks, God!” said Maher. The atheist means it casually but that’s actually a really great point. “It’s not life-threatening.”
It’s vanity on her part, and she’s making herself into a victim and a champion of a disability and, in the modern world’s way, acting as if it’s an identifier and a demographic. Having alopecia. A minority group of its own. I mean seriously!
“And, you know, just put on a ******* wig like everybody else at the Oscars if it bothers you so much.”
Exactly. Do that.