There are a lot of different incentives and constraints interacting in this situation. In a way, I’m sorry for all of them, if their decisions haven’t resulted in their being tolerably happy.
I do wish media would stop saying that Chris Rock insulted, mocked, or impugned Jada. He simply observed that her head was shaved. Which it was.
I once went to visit my mother the day after I got a haircut, and when I walked into her apartment, she said to her friend, “And here is my daughter, who seems to have joined the Marine Corps.” It wasn’t an insult or anything.
I don’t think his joke was out of bounds, but I do think your mom was kind of mean. But mom’s can get away with that, I guess.
> I do wish media would stop saying that Chris Rock insulted, mocked, or impugned Jada. <
Even if he did, that sort of thing goes with being a public figure. You don’t want to be the target of such comments? Then don’t be an actor or a singer or a politician. Go be a hairdresser or a bus driver instead.
That’s the way I se it, anyway.
At least she didn’t call you sergeant carter hair. It’s an old joke from married with children. Al used to call marcy that ;)
My daughter stopped me from shaving my head bald. I lost so much hair while I was going through cancer I hated the way it looked. She was really upset about it.
You can say that truthfully about one of your daughters.
I didn’t find the joke offensive, either. She’s not bald. She shaves her head. When I lost all my hair to chemo one year, I would not have been offended if someone compared me to GI Jane.