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CHRIS ROCK SAYS COMEDIANS WEARING DRESSES, NOT JUST A BLACK THING
CHRIS ROCK SAYS COMEDIANS WEARING DRESSES, NOT JUST A BLACK THING
Comedian and actor Chris Rock gets “reel” in the latest issue of Vibe magazine. The Hollywood themed issue covers a variety of topics and in the interview with Rock they asked about the trend of Black comedians having to wear dresses.
“I mean, hey, lots of comedians dress up like women, not just Black. It’s one of the oldest tricks in the book. Men in drag…There was Mrs. Doubtfire. [Adam] Sandler’s next movies is Jack and Jill. He plays his brother and sister. [The Black community] doesn’t have that many movies, so if there’s only four Black movies in a year and two of them star Black men in dresses, I could see how that would upset some people. But that’s a job for some people. Tyler Perry is great in a dress, but I don’t want to see Denzel or Will Smith in a dress. And I don’t think we’re in any danger of seeing that.”
So would Rock ever do a Tyler Perry movie? Pick up the latest issue of Vibe to find out! Also what do you think?
The ARTFORM of Gender Illusion is something that has been going on for CENTURIES!! One must remember that when THEATRE and PERFORMING ARTS become popular culture, ALL ROLES WERE ACTING OUT BY MEN because the WOMEN were considered to be PROPERTY and had no entitlement to that kind of granduer and/or pomp & circumstance. Our SOCIETY has become so MASCULINE IDENTIFIED that to see a man in a dress, ESPECIALLY in the BLACK COMMUNITY, means that a threat to a man's machismo is at hand and some kind of action must be taken. It's all rooted in the same gender loving phobia that our mainstream culture, and religiosity perpetuates!
ReplyDeleteAND IT'S SAD that THEATRE and PERFORMING ARTS can not be thoroughly enjoyed without making it a "MAN THANG" or a psuedo MALE BASHING experience......
I concur 1000000%
ReplyDeleteI agree totally!
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