{"id":25166,"date":"2024-01-25T19:36:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T19:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radiantmedia.io\/?p=25166"},"modified":"2024-01-25T19:36:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T19:36:11","slug":"marlon-wayans-responds-to-katt-williams-toxic-criticism-of-black-male-comedians-wearing-dresses-i-wore-a-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ec2-34-197-49-85.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/?p=25166","title":{"rendered":"Marlon Wayans Responds To Katt Williams&#8217; &#8216;Toxic&#8217; Criticism Of Black Male Comedians Wearing Dresses: I Wore A Dress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Marlon Wayans does not agree with Katt Williams when it comes to Black men comedians wearing dresses in their work.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weeks after Williams&#8217; explosive interview with Shannon Sharpe on Club Shay Shay launched off 2024 with a bang, Wayans appeared on REAL 92.3&#8217;s radio show, Big Boy&#8217;s Neighborhood, and slammed Williams&#8217; &#8220;toxic&#8221; comments about his peers wearing gowns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m tired of the rhetoric of, &#8216;Oh, you sold out in Hollywood &#8217;cause you wore a dress,&#8221; Wayans stated around the 30-minute mark in the video above. &#8220;Negro, I wore an outfit named &#8216;White Chicks.&#8217; Do you know what we did? &#8220;We performed a classic.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/radiantmedia.io\/2024\/01\/22\/dave-chappelle-blasts-katt-williams-for-only-criticizing-black-comedians\/\">Dave Chappelle Blasts Katt Williams For Only Criticizing black Comedians<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was referring to a 2004 comedy in which he and his brother, Shawn Wayans, portrayed white women. Wayans went on to say, &#8220;Only Black people sit there and go, &#8216;Man, our brothers wearing dresses.'&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Marlon Wayans on Katt Williams, His Trans Son, Losing His Parents, &amp; New Comedy Special | Interview\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c_euv5jwAkY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wayans also noted the double standards, stating, &#8220;Oh, so white folks wear gowns\u2026 when Robin Williams wears a dress in &#8216;Mrs. Doubtfire,&#8217; he&#8217;s wonderful. When Tom Hanks wears a frock in Bosom Buddies, he is terrific. Right? Dustin Hoffman wins an Oscar for wearing a dress in Tootsie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/radiantmedia.io\/2024\/01\/11\/you-dont-have-to-address-your-haters-declares-steve-harvey-following-katt-williams-statement\/\">\u201cYou Don\u2019t Have To Address Your Haters,\u201d Declares Steve Harvey Following Katt Williams\u2019 Statement<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Black folks, the moment we put on a dress, we start tearing each other down. This is art; this is comedy. Do you think I&#8217;m going to tear down Flip Wilson? Do you think I&#8217;m going to criticize Tyler Perry? I&#8217;m not going to bring down any of these brothers. It is humor, and we should embrace all of it. We shouldn&#8217;t have just one style of humor. &#8220;We should embrace all of our humor.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Marlon Wayans doubles down on his stance regarding comedians wearing dresses and says &quot;You don&#39;t see any other race of people tearing people down the way Black people do&quot;.<br><br>(\ud83c\udfa5 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BigBoy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BigBoy<\/a> ) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xtcsVCU6IX\">pic.twitter.com\/xtcsVCU6IX<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Art Of Dialogue (@ArtOfDialogue_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArtOfDialogue_\/status\/1749247169029144894?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 22, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wayans&#8217; criticism came after he opened publicly about his transgender son. During an interview on The Breakfast Club last November, the comic went into great detail about his &#8220;painful&#8221; experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I have a daughter that transitioned into a son,&#8221; Wayans remarked about the 14-minute point of the interview. &#8220;My daughter Amai is now Kai, and thus I discuss the change. 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