Though seemingly trivial to some, asking a black actor/comedian to wear a dress on camera is considered a loaded and coded slight used by Hollywood to emasculate men it may feel threatened by.
Today, Brandon T. Jackson is the latest African-American actor to speak out against it by revealing that he regrets the part he played in the ‘Big Momma’s House’ movie empire and why his relationship with God suffered as a result.
His words below…
Brandon told Comedy Hype and TMZ.
“I believe it was cursed because nothing went right since then,” Jackson reflected on his career. “Everything went wrong when I put on that dress.I think the dress, personally, is a thing that is not in our culture do. I think that everybody would want to put their culture on us…If your God say [sic] you can put on a dress and in your culture that’s normal, you have the right as a human to choose that. But me, for my God and my culture, my ancient culture, we didn’t do stuff like that. So, I was cursed by that. I believe there was a curse with that.”
He added…
“I was on thin ice then with the father. But, he had his mercy and his grace was there. When you break a law you get punished…If you don’t follow all the commandments that the Torah says to do, you’ll be cursed.”
It seems select others share similar sentiments:
On a sidenote why do I always see black men cross dress for comedy? https://t.co/3uIGOcvGlu
— Paulie D. (@i_muro_g) October 25, 2019
Quick question: why do some black men that are trying to make it in comedy or do sketches always dress up as women? ?
— Donnie Narko (@Pusha_Dee) September 26, 2018
Black men gotta stop wearing wigs for laughs man. Dave Chappelle turned down 70 million from Comedy Central cause they wanted him to wear a dress and a wig
— Browns Stressing Me Out (@iDreamBillions) September 23, 2018
Do men in other races dress and act like women for comedy as much as black men do???? #SHEESH.
— Swaggy P (@PARISG_) February 7, 2017
You were always D list. Had nothing to do with you wearing a dress and wig. ?
Lmfao? all facts
dana carvey,jim carrey, mike meyers, Robin Williams, and dean pelton. Now stfu
Thank you.
If that’s what makes you feel better Hotep.
Rupaul wears dresses for a living and he has built an empire and won several Emmy awards. Just bought a 15 million dollar house
Black men and masculinity, so fragile.
Where is it written that dresses are for only women or makeup is only for women. Who made this rule?
Black Men can’t wear pink
Black Men cant get manicures and pedicures
Black Men can’t listen to beyonce
Black Men cant be nurses
Black Men cant be twerk
Black Men aren’t allowed to be happy
Who made all these fùcking rules?
Women wear pants nobody says anything or ridicule them. women shave their head bald and nobody says shìt
Black men free urself
Even a broken clock is right twice a day
Why audition for a part you don’t wish to play? You wanted the check so you applied for the part. As do ALL men play these roles. No one forced your hand you püssy b*****. You’re a sissy for not taking responsibility, not for wearing a dress in a movie.
BRUH HE FELL OFF!!!!
I used to have the biggest crush on him. How did he go from being a s*** satyr to this???? He better tighten up for Love By The Tenth Date II.
He looks bad
If your God curses you for wearing a dress, maybe it’s time to get a new god.
Boy get a grip! You just havin a midlife masculinity crisis and your homophobia is jumpin out! Nobody forced you to put on that wig and dress. Big Momma’s house is a story by a BLACK MAN!!! And Eddie Murphy was heavily involved behind the camera as Executive Producer of The Nutty Professor and he wrote Norbit! And we all know about Tyler Perry, and everybody and they mamma went to see them damn Madea movies. Even the Halloween ones!
The reason why so many black men can do good impressions of black women is cause they been surrounded by scrong black women since they were children. Talmbout “it ain’t in my culture”, negro please. If it wasn’t then it wouldn’t be so many black men doin it. You just mad cause yo ashy ass can’t get hired any more!
lol?
If he looks anything like that pic nowadays then that’s the reason he fell off. He was never A list but he was building a career.
There are so many issues around this and I don’t have the time to unpack it all. Literally the African American masculinity is fragile. Exactly why they walk around so angry. They aren’t allowed to express themselves.
White actors & comedians have included drag/crossdressing as part of their comedic trope since they were first able to draw an audience for comedy.
Even early TV history had successful entertainers like Milton Berle, Fred Mertz, Bob Hope, Johnathan Winters, Tom Hanks had a whole TV series as a crossdresser… oh yea and Bugs fkng Bunny! ?
Since those days, there have been WAY more leading white, than black actors, with drag/crossdressing in the resume`.
To black men who regurgitate this bs: Please fix your ignorant WEAK MASCULINITY bull$#*t.
The tired a$$ arguments of “you never see white male actors…”, ” ‘they’ pushing a gay agenda” and all that other BS is ??played ?? tf ?? out. ??
Preach!
Yeah, no one likes you ot wants to see you cause you’re just not that funny, it’s obviously some god’s fault or punishment. People these days are always blaming someone or something for their failures.
Shakespeare times and times after that White folks dressed up as women so this ullshit in void. You don’t see them complain about having s** on screen with women or shooting up driving recklessly, hell no cos thats masculine .
Those comments on twitter ?
If you don’t want to transform into different characters, dress up and all that jazz : then don’t get into acting. It’s as simple as that.
Gotta love how all these men talk about “emasculation” when their tired jokes with misogynist/homophobic undertones fall flat. Bye!