Apparently, Mel Gibson is a better actor than anyone knew.
He got in touch with his feminine side in the movie “What Women Want,” directed by Nancy Meyers. But he hates women. He famously partnered with Danny Glover and lent his voice to a documentary celebrating African-American military history. But he hates black people.
Or so you must conclude if you believe last week’s bombshell from Radar Online, a celebrity gossip Web site. It reported on July 1 that Gibson’s estranged girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva, had taped him in the throes of a profanely and profoundly hateful rant. He reportedly called Grigorieva, with whom he has an infant daughter, a “Slore,” a “b—-” and a particularly vulgar term for the female pudendum. Then there is this pungent quote: “You look like a f—— pig in heat and if you get raped by a pack of n—— it will be your fault.”
You may think the most damning word in that quote is the n-word. Actually, it’s just before that. After all, only animals hunt in packs.
At this writing, it is nearly a week since the story broke and Gibson has yet to deny the authenticity of those words, even as he has come under fire from the NAACP, Gloria Allred and Jesse Jackson.
If all this seems familiar, it is because Gibson made international headlines four years ago when, during a traffic stop for drunken driving, he exploded into a tirade against the “f—— Jews.” I slammed the actor as a bigot, drawing cries of protest from some readers. You shouldn’t be so hard on him, they said. The guy had been drinking. Stuff happens.
I can only hope those readers are paying attention now.
People tend to have this naive notion about hate. They think it’s something you can see at 20 paces, something obvious and over-the-top, like the Nazis that Jack Kirby drew for Marvel Comics; you always knew they were evil from their craggy teeth and bad skin.
But hate looks like a grandmother baking cookies, a teacher standing in front of the class, a preacher opening his Bible. It looks like you or me, like anybody anywhere.
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