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He lives upstairs from me. Well, not him exactly, but someone who sounds a lot like him. He's never in the media, even though verbally, the similarity really is striking.
Never, under any circumstances, take any celebrity seriously. When you see them interviewed about politics, life, marriage, relationships, or anything else besides whatever movie they're doing at the moment, change the channel. Don't pick up People Magazine or any of those other puff pieces, either. Because the folks they feature are typically self-absorbed nitwits whose strange worldview has been reinforced by armies of enablers in the form of publicists, agents, fans, and other assorted hangers-on. And people who hang on their every pronouncement are doing the world a huge disfavor.
You know who I find to find much more interesting and substantive than movie stars? Just about everybody else on the planet. The cashier at the grocery store. My electrician. The guy who cuts my grass. People I work with. Because they all have real lives and opinions that are based on the real world--not the Alice-In-Wonderland perspective of Hollywood.
This is still hard for me to swallow. He has always been one of my favorites because of his characters and relating to them with myself. Well, I guess I'm not like him at all in real life. I like the characters better as they are similar to me.
By now you probably heard about (or heard) the Mel Gibson tape where he was in a violent rage yelling at his girlfriend about the "provocative" clothes she was wearing. He basically said she deserves to be raped. While his very offensive racial remark got most of the attention, I found his attitude about women to be equally as bad.
I HATE controlling men like Mel Gibson (and he's just one of millions) who tell women not to dress sexy, who call women names who don't dress modest, and believe this type of dress is justification for rape. If I could find a stronger word than hate I would use it.
Here is my question about this. Why do women who dress sexy get involved with males who have this mindset? I realize Mel Gibson is famous and a wide range of women would want to date him.
But in the everyday non-celebrity world there are many women who dress sexy who enter relationships with men who have the same exact mindset as Gibson.
Here is my theory. Women like dominant men. Sexy attractive women can obtain dominant men and many won't settle for less. Domineering men by nature are controlling over women and have very traditional attitudes towards gender roles..including female dress. If we lived in an alternate universe where where women were attracted to more submissive type men I believe the type of female fashion that Mel Gibson finds so offensive would be extremely common and no one would think twice about it except for the fact that it looks good.
I don't think it's true hate, as in he wants her to get raped. It's just old school shaming and calling her out for what he deemed to be inappropriate dress. Did he go overboard? By today's standards, yes. 40-50 years ago probably not. He is pretty old after all.
I don't think it's true hate, as in he wants her to get raped. It's just old school shaming and calling her out for what he deemed to be inappropriate dress. Did he go overboard? By today's standards, yes. 40-50 years ago probably not. He is pretty old after all.
I think that's the same with my bf. He is 45. I could never imagine a 25 year old saying something like that.
I also agree he doesn't want her to get raped, he's just manipulating her into feeling ashamed.
What I have never gotten (and HATE) is the whole "every other girl can dress as scantily clad as she wants, and I am going to check her out until my eyes pop out of my head, but NOT YOU, you're mine" type attitude that Mel and SO many other men seem to have.
Yes, they are attracted to us because we look sexy, but then when we are their g/f they object to the same type of clothing that attracted them in the first place. What is that about? Also, I dress the way I want to, and no one is going to tell me what to wear. I live on the beach, so it is common for women to wear less clothes than in the city. Mel is just venting, and he had a melt down, something he is known for.
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I didn't do it. You didn't see me. You can't prove anything.
Well, I guess I'm not like him at all in real life.
I like the characters better as they are similar to me.
