He compares her to movie characters, har har. But then when she’s contouring her chin, he says, “I wonder if this will help me hide my fucked up double chin.” Oops, I forgot to laugh. Maybe let’s not make fun of other people’s chins or suggest that makeup is meant to make people look skinnier? More from CafeMom: Men Are Tweeting Their #Pregnantwife Problems & Every Dad-to-Be Can Relate With the prevalence of sexual harassment and assault against women, his joke arguably crosses a serious line. In essence, it detracts from the weight that assault has on its victims and their lives, and perpetuates that these things can be made light of. When she’s almost done and takes a sip of wine, he goes, “Did I mention we’re trying for another child? Nope, not tonight we’re not.” More from CafeMom: Worst Mom Ever’ Shares the 1 Big Mistake We Make With Our Sons In a later post, Gibbs addressed the video: “We know that our humor is not for everyone, and didn’t expect it to be.” But even if the video was meant to just be a joke and he was supposed to play the “husband who’s clueless about makeup,” the video pretty much just perpetuates the idea that we should shame women who do want to wear makeup if they please. Let’s just call it quits on these kinds of judgments, and hopefully outside of this video, he appreciates his wife with or without her full makeup look on and doesn’t actually say those things.
