Same Old Energy

Two days out from the Will Smith/Chris Rock situation and a new narrative is shaping up. Well, not a NEW one. It's the oldest narrative in the world. 

Blame the woman.

I'm seeing a lot posts about Jada Pinkett Smith and how all of this is her fault or how the focus should be on what an awful person she is. 

She cheated on her husband with a younger man. As a couple, they addressed this publically. To me, this was a brave thing to do, a mature thing to do. One of us cheated and now we're going to work through it. 

People hated her for it. Mind you, if it had been Smith who cheated on her, people would have....still hated her for it. They would have wondered what she did to lead him to cheat or would have said she was stupid for staying with him or only staying with him for the money or whatever. 

Now people are trying to say that the pain she put Smith through is the reason he lashed out.

No. No, it is not.

A man told a joke that was out of bounds. 
Another man hit him for it.
In this situation, the woman who was the subject of the joke did nothing wrong.

And yet, certain subsets of society are so used to blaming women for things and certainly finding any way they can to keep men from being blamed that they're doing mental backflips to make this her fault.

She did nothing. She rolled her eyes at the joke. That was all. THAT WAS ALL. And yet, here it is, her fault.

This is so stupid. And so predictable.