DID oldheads clown MARTY MAR for 'SHENAENAE" ?

[Heafcliffe]

I was a yute myself back then and don't recall the older brehs having an issue.

I'd assume they wouldn't considering Flip Wilson was out here rocking his Geraldine act to much fanfare.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

Mrs. Doubtfire.

And white and black folks STILL love this movie lol. It’s funny how that works right?

 

[King Poetic]

Nobody was upset over that as well others like Damian Wayans and David Allen Grier in living color playing those gay guys doing movie reviews

nikkas today are just soft and emotional like cacs

 

[Ku$h Parker]

Ugly Wanda>>>Neh Neh

 

[Lonj]

Disagree.
And I think people have just run with and repeated this. Comedians have been doing drag as a cheap sight gag for decades.
Comics (and actors) trying to make it will generally do near anything directors/producers say to land or keep a part in a project to boost their careers.
White, Latin, Asian actors have been given drag roles/had drag suggested to "spice up" a role. If you go through your head, you'll remember all the ones who did it for skits, tv and film roles, etc
Tom Hank's,Robin Williams, the Church Lady on SNL, Adam Sandler, Chris Farley,etc and near every tier below them.
These white comics doing drag gets forgotten when this "Hollywood wants Black men in dresses" line comes up.
I respect anybody who goes into entertainment and sticks to their guns about what they won't do on camera. But I definitely don't buy that "oh, last generation didn't know what was happening""Chappelle lifted the lid off of the conspiracy" line here.

I don't necessarily disagree with you, I'm just answering the thread's question. No one clowned Martin in the 90's for dressing in drag cause it wasn't a major talking point in the community yet.

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

No because the world didn’t have certain perspectives like now
For god sakes it was a whole ass 80s movie
With a white dude In black face
People got fooled by Rupaul
Now thecoli will have revisionist history(already see the usual contrarians)
Men On Film could not be done for two reasons today
LMNOP would have the Wayans cancelled with the quickness
Online militants would be the most vocal
Comedy back then was not meant for the weak
Blazing Saddles for example
I think people just became more aware of their surroundings and how certain shyt looks
I’m all for humor and have a pretty tough skin when it comes to this shyt
But I also would be remiss if I didn’t acknowledge how some of this shyt has damaged the black man’s image
Especially on the day to day interactions with people outside
I get it now but back the

 

[patscorpio]

I think wesley snipes was the first I can think of that had push back,,


I remember dad was like

yeah that to wong foo movie was just

 

[Dr. Acula]

No, because people didn't take every event as a social issue. Comedy and jokes were just considered jokes and comedy. No one thought because Martin played a character on TV meant he was trying to make people become trannies or there was some hidden conspiracy to emasculate him.

People weren't as uptight about shyt. Everyone didnt act like an HR representative sucking the fun out of everything and making comedy into preachy, inoffensive, and souless art

 

[Diddly Drogba]

i knew there was a reason i had you on ignore

what "dumb conspiracies"? be specHollywood.

He's talking about the conspiracy that you have to do gay shyt to make it in hollywood.

 

[Dameon Farrow]

yeah that to wong foo movie was just

Closest I came to buying that 'initiation into Hollywood' bs. They were already established actors and took that shyt anyway. They must have lost a 3 way bet.

 

[Fill Collins]

I’m all for humor and have a pretty tough skin when it comes to this shyt
But I also would be remiss if I didn’t acknowledge how some of this shyt has damaged the black man’s image
Especially on the day to day interactions with people outside
I get it now but back the

I can laugh at stuff the same way, even while I in all honesty am fairly liberal, comedy is about context and freedom of speech does include the offended party responding so eh

Gay jokes are funny, disabled jokes are funny, sexist jokes, etc. but humor is all one contradiction

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Pretty much echoing the same sentiments on the first page. It was just one of many characters Martin played for laughs. Now it may have been different if he took that character and made several movies and had her pop up in various other sitcoms.