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FEATURE Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Bald Woman - Why do bald women make us uncomfortable? 18 www.glamsquad<strong>magazine</strong>.com
FEATURE Let’s unpack the cultural baggage — the misogynoir, the anxious masculinity, the Fear of the Weird— behind Chris Rock’s joke and Will Smith’s slap (with a little help from Isaac Hayes, Pat Evans — the badass with the bullwhip on those Ohio Players covers — and the warrior women from Black Panther). If Will Smith bitch-slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars taught us anything, it’s that defending “your” woman’s “honor” went out of fashion around the time Rhett Butler got dentures. Also, pathological masculinity is in need of a shorter, stouter choke chain. The proximate cause of the smack heard ‘round the world was smack-talking: Rock’s unfunny wisecrack about Jada Pinkett Smith’s alopecia areatainduced baldness. Even so, the homophobic subtext of the bitch slap reminds us that this was as much about male fragility as it was some Medieval Times idea of gallantry. Race is the supermassive black hole of American discourse; its moral gravity and historical enormity warp the fabric of any attempt to understand what America means. Because it’s the taproot of a million little inequities in American life and, obviously, of monstrous historical evils, we tend (with apologies to Joan Didion) to look for the sermon on race in one Black man slapping another to defend his wife’s “honor.” But, as always, there are other stories to tell ourselves. The story I told myself, trying to make sense of the grotesque spectacle I’d just witnessed, was a story about hysterical masculinity — the Fear of the Inner Queer (which is really a virulent misogyny, a fear of the feminine within) that defends to the death what it ain’t (anybody’s punk) but has no clue what it is. Manhood, American style, is an Iron Man exoskeleton with nobody in it. Its heavy metal hardshell conceals a terrible lack, the awful emptiness of a thing that knows only what it’s not: “no homo.” You don’t have to be Jacques www.glamsquad<strong>magazine</strong>.com 19
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