The actual Slap may have lasted just a millisecond, but its impact has been monumental, not just for The Academy, which enlisted a new “crisis team” this year to prevent any similar incidents and changed the color of the red carpet to beige “to evoke calm and peacefulness,” but for our culture writ large. The most shocking unscripted moment in live-television history since Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl “wardrobe malfunction” has become a Rorschach test, with observers bringing their own lived experiences into their interpretations of what happened between these two pop cultural icons.