Picking up from yesterday –
It’s just mean, for reasons I can’t seem to understand. I get that some people say if they air their business publicly, we have a right. But for one thing, I think a high power celebrity couple choosing to try to own their own ‘brand’, and realize that if people are always talking and speculating, they may as well open their hearts and lives to really share them publicly… I don’t think that does give us the right to throw things back in their face forever.
And even if it did, why would we want to? Why would we WANT to throw something that seemingly hurt Will Smith (based on the way his eyes looked on the Red Table Talk special where they talked about it) in his face all the time?
For all the people who are viewing that as cheating, do they realize then, that HE would be the injured party there? Making fun of the injured party is the MEAN thing to do? It’s punching down, which is the opposite of what comedy is supposed to do.
I’m not justifying him slapping someone on live television. But the internet has been SO cruel to him. And he has generally taken it fairly in stride for SO long. How could this man not be ready to snap, at least a little?
Also, as far as the slap goes, I am also a pretty big believer that when someone makes what seems to be a true mistake – (such as things not premeditated and/or things that are rare occurrences as opposed to the person’s majority of their body of work) – and especially when the injured party (which is geeeeenerally the party I think we should look to on how to proceed) – doesn’t press charges or make a big deal and is willing to chalk it up to a mistake, AND the person issues an apology… like, what else do we want, really?
What’s the point of just continuing to punish him, to what end?
I really think we should be nicer to Will Smith. [Also, I actually think I’m gonna have more to say on this tomorrow.]