Why do bald women make us uncomfortable? — 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.
