so can a woman be given the same excuse if she acts up on behalf of a man?
you know when a woman flips out on someone because her husband is narcissist, cheater, toxic, selfish, mentally abusive, manipulative, hostile and bald....
cuz many women flip out because shit of like and I have yet to see anyone on this board give them that level of sympathy or excuse for a sudden burst of violence over a minor thing.
I'm not talking about excuses. Both what you said and what
@spider705 said could be true. Obviously, Will's actions that night did not come from a healthy place. You could see that from his running up on the stage and hitting Chris Rock, from his crying and from his disjointed, mostly illogical acceptance speech later in the show.
It makes sense that there could be issues going way back in his life before that were unresolved that influenced what he did.
I think whatever happened on Red Table Talk or this letter about Tupac that his daughter wrote when she was younger- there's no proof any of that had any bearing on what happened that night. That's just busybody people on social media gossiping, making up their own narrative and acting as untrained behavior analysts as usual. None of us knows anything specific about how Will Smith processed things, what things Will Smith was going through in his life or in his head, outside of whatever Will chooses to share himself.
It appeared from his speech that in that moment he saw himself "protecting his family". That's a specific that he alluded to. It does not make his actions correct, nor his viewpoint a clear one.
He's a Man not a Manchurian candidate. No one made him do what he did. In the end, he's the owner of his actions. He did wrong. Period.
That said, I believe in redemption.