Rant Thursdays: Mel Gibson

Hello Dweebs.

There are so many subjects out there that I could rant about, but I feel like the timing is right for a Mel Gibson Rant.

Does anyone remember when Mel was cool and was considered a sex symbol? I barely do and that was less than 8 years ago. (Signs was in 2002.)

I remember when he started to become controversial, It was in 2004 and he had just released "The Passion of the Christ". Soon the whispers about the movie being Anti-Semantic turned into loud open conversations. It was all over the news, but the public dismissed it. Middle America praised him for being so brave for putting his money into it and speaking the truth and the public turned on those who called it racist. I remember listening to people saying that "those California people and Jews" are too "sensitive". Middle America decided to ignore the signs and spent millions of dollars supporting this movie.

The public also brushed off the time he made homophobic remarks in the early 1990's. They also forgave him for being BANNED in Ontario for drunk driving in the 1980's. (How do you get banned from Canada? My best friend, Bubba, still hasn't pulled that one off and I know he has tried.)

Finally, after being in the business for 30 years, people stopped making excuses and started to realize there is something wrong here. In 2006, Mel Gibson was pulled over for drinking and driving and instead of realizing his mistake and seeing the errors of his ways, he was uncooperative and insulted his arresting officers. He insulted an officer because he was Jewish and called a female officer...you know I am not going to repeat what he said, because we all know what he said. (And frankly, I don't need another complaint from my mother...) The next day, he and his publicist issued an apology. Instead of admitting that he is a racist, he blamed it on the alcohol. Now, I have been drunk and have spent time with a lot of time with drunk people, but NEVER have I EVER heard someone who is in a drunken stupor use racial slurs and I live in the south, the home of discrimination. I have always viewed alcohol as a real life truth serum, if you drink enough all your filters are gone and you will say what you really think. So without a doubt, Mel Gibson has proven to me that he is a sexist and racist.

Soon after that event, he separates from his wife of 30 years that he was cheating on. He starts dating the woman he cheated on his wife with more freely. This woman, Oksana Grigorieva, gives birth SIX months after his divorce is final.

So after all of that America and Hollywood decided to give him ANOTHER chance. His friend, Jodie Foster, casts him in her directorial debut. SO HOW DOES MEL THANK HER AND AMERICA FOR WILLING TO GIVE HIM A CHANCE? He verbally and physically abuses his girlfriend, but this time he beats the wrong person. She fought back.(I am sure it was monetarily motivated...) She secretly recorded at least FIVE rants where he calls her every name in the book, threatens to kill her, yelled her because she went to bed before taking care of all his sexual needs, talks about how she deserved to be hit, even if she was holding his TWO-MONTH OLD daughter, and he uses a million racial slurs sexist remarks to "help" make his point. At this point, he has already punched her in the face and knocked out two of her teeth. Now Radar Online is reporting that there is photographic proof that he hit her and that he bruised the baby during the attack.

WHY IS HE STILL WALKING AROUND A FREE MAN??? WHY IS HE NOT IN JAIL??? It is a horrible thing for a man to abuse a woman, it is even more horrible that an infant was hurt during this attack. What is taking the Los Angeles police department so long to process these charges? He needs to be in jail more than Lindsay does and trust me, Lindsay needs to be in jail. (Check in tomorrow for my thoughts on that.) The only person in Hollywood that needs to be in jail and never heard from again as much as Mel does is Chris Brown (I am coming for you, CB. You got lucky this week.)

I really can't listen to those tapes. It's too hard. It is disgusting and so vicious, it makes my skin crawl. I just have a hard time believing that a human could say those things to another human, let alone the mother of his child.

What's worse is that people are DEFENDING him. They are blaming the alcohol AGAIN...it is not the alcohol, it is the MAN and the man needs to be in jail and I never want to see him again.

- Maggie