Chris rock special
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Anonymous
| I would like to think the daughter story was fake, because hearing about it like this would be messed up. On the other hand, it didn’t seem to me like Rock telling the school to expel her made any difference. The other girls all had lawyers and they were all expelled too. Seems like it would have gone that way anyway. Regardless, he should have kept that story to himself, especially since it sounds like his daughter learned her lesson. |
Anonymous
Sigh, you do know that not every anecdote comedians share is actually true don't you? Usually they take a germ of something and add hyperbole. I know a comic who does a brilliant bit about sleeping with a homeless man, she never slept with a homeless man. |
Anonymous
Yep, I saw him on stage within the past year and lots of women were there. He’s a comedian. |
Anonymous
Im pro choice, a Democratic trump hating voter and you are insufferable. You actually hate everyone that’s pro-life? It’s a different philosophy but it doesn’t mean they hate women. I see why liberals make conservatives want to throw up. |
Anonymous
That's not how that works. She is a public figure. You don't need to "do something" to a comedian -- they are allowed to make jokes about you. I thought he was spot on. It captured everything I've felt since Oprah but it wasn't PC to say at the time. Chris can say it and he did. We're not all so naive to believe her ridiculous narrative. |
Anonymous
It seemed sexist and anti-light skinned black to me. He said nothing about Harry. |
Anonymous
Yup. And he went easy on her by pointing out the BRFs history of colonialism - but as the “that’s just in-law shit” got a lot of laughs I think a lot of folks are good and comfortable now seeing Harry’s wife as the liar she is. Poor lady! South Park, this….she’s just a sweet innocent victim of…something. |
Anonymous
Your casual dismissal of the insidious ways misogyny hurts women in real time is making women afraid to live life. Half of American women of all races have lost fundamental human rights and it is life or death for many of us. |
Anonymous
Well, men in jail for murdering their wives also get fan mail from women. So the fact that many women like him means nothing. I found his Elon Musk joke to be disrespectful of women (like we are all lined up to give a bl*w job to any man with cash). That is probably a function of his divorce. Or, to be honest, he has likely been influenced by the behavior of (many of the) women that rich, famous men encounter in the course of their careers. (I saw this during a phase of my life in which I spent time with professional athletes). I am not condoning his lack of respect for women, but trying to understand how he turned out this way. |
Anonymous
He's calling out the existence of colorism. She herself admits she was not subject to racism in the US due to her skin tone. He didn't reference Harry but he did say the BRF is racist. He's part of that "OGs of racism" barb. So he's not picking on her exclusively. Just pointing out the BS on both sides. |
Anonymous
| It's comedy. It's either funny to you or not. You don't get to tell comedians what they should or shouldn't say. If we start censoring comedians, then it really isn't comedy anymore. As long as they aren't inciting violence, IMO everything goes. |
Anonymous
| All these gosh darn comedians keep making jokes at the expense of other people! |
Anonymous
+1. She (and Harry) have put themselves out there as opening the eyes of the world to the racism of the British Royal Family (though Harry kind of backpedaled on all that in an interview). Her narrative that she didn't realize the Briitish royal family is racist is strange. I like Harry and Meghan by the way. I just think that some of what they have said is ridiculous and that is the s*** Chris Rock pointed out. |
Anonymous
Where is the Inquisition when you most need it? |
Anonymous
Not yet but can't wait, given all the vitriol on this thread! |