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Gibson’s family has come forward to say they stand by their Melly. Of course they do. If they don’t, he might Rockatansky them in the jawbone, then bury them in the flower bed. His ex-wife stands by him too. And by that I mean she stands by her alimony.

Ouch! Such cynicsm.

Oh, and hello Courtney. I'm Matthew. I also like cupcakes and Neko Case.

Anyone who says, "I love his movies and I want to see more" obviously has fewer functioning brain cells than Anna Nicole Smith (in her current state). I'll admit, I liked Signs, but mostly because Joaquin Phoenix was still a little bit hot, Abigail Breselin is cute as a button, and that scene where the alien steps out from behind the bush in Mexico was pretty awesome. But for anyone who truly enjoyed What Women Want... fuck you.

Ooops, where are my manners?

Hi, Courtney!

I found this blind item interesting. Perhaps it can explain some of the supporting comments for Mel?

Money can’t buy you love, but it sure can buy you a public relations blitz. This American-born actor doesn’t have the best reputation in the world. However, despite his claims to a lessening fortune, he’s still got plenty of dough to buy temporary mates to bolster his image. On most websites, public opinion has resoundingly turned against this actor. However, on some of the most popular news and gossip sites, there are a puzzling bounty of posts lauding him as a great man and the victim of a conspiracy. Turns out that it is no coincidence. There is actually a team of people who have been hired specifically to adopt multiple personalities on each of about a dozen of the most popular news and gossip sites. Their job is to try to make their client look better by posting positive and supportive messages about him… and negative messages about others. If you look a little closer at those posters, you’ll see that they are new and exist solely to support this m* f* son of a w* c* b*. (Blind Gossip)

Ugh.
Just.

Ugh.

I hope that when Gibson is strung up by the balls and set on fire, they take his fans with him.

Hi, Courtney. Before I can commit to liking you, I'll need to know your positions on Animaniacs,pandas, Tyler Perry and the Dred Scott decision.

People are like crabs: They would rather pull someone down instead of pulling themselves up. Women have always been the greatest enforcers of misogyny just as blacks have always been the greatest enforcers of our own pathology.

Hi, Courtney Elnow! Welcome. I like Mid-Westerners and Canadians. We're a good people.

One thing about this whole gold digger thing. It's pretty clear that guys like Mel Gibson or, say, Tiger Woods, use their fame and money to attract women.

These guys are famous and incredibly wealthy. They know that and use their fame and wealth to bring in the ladies. They fly them around the world, they buy them expensive things, take them on exotic vacations, stay at the best hotels, etc. They do all of this, more or less, for the sex. Sure, it could be love in some instances, but for Mel Gibson, at least, it seems it's all about blow-jobs.

The moment things go wrong or the relationship deteriorates or ends, then all of a sudden it's the women are "gold diggers." It's perfectly fine, apparently, for the guy to use his money to attract women to get what he wants. But the attractive woman who is getting showered with all this cash and these luxuries is the "gold digger."

It's a ridiculous double-standard. Dude, if you're gonna throw "gold" around all over the place to attract women and get them to do what you want, you can't be angry or surprised if they take what's being offered.

The most frightening gold digger of all was Daniel Plainview.

Mel needs to find himself a better, more compliant, less mouthy prostitute.

Damn, Slim. I thought you'd at least ease your way in with the new people. -- DR

Yeah, but Dalton was probably the worst Bond which is probably why Gibson felt safe. Even Roger Moore would have pimp slapped him across a couch. Connery would have teabagged Gibson's mother and made him watch before throwing Oksana to the floor and giving her the best orgasm of her life.

What disturbs me the most is the amount of venom and hate in his voice when you listen to those tapes. The man is not a reasonable or stable human being and if I was on the other end of that phone I would be fucking terrified. Just the way he yells at her is full of uncontrolled rage. Why she hasn't pressed charges is beyond me (no it's not but I don't want to be accusatory)

Also: Hello Courtney, you'll be hearing a lot from me. I'm all about sunshine and puppies and walks on the beach and holding hands and choking idiot motherfuckers. Oooh, and ice cream.

Tracer Bullet >> Don't you dare besmirch the Dalton or his Bond! Prince Barin rules Mongo!

Nadine:

A related story: I once worked with a woman from Pakistan, graduate-level educated, married to a Jewish guy, daughter of a UN diplomat who had lived in several countries around the world so certainly not an inexperienced, sheltered village girl. When her sister-in-law was divorcing her brother she said to me

"I don't get it. He's really good to her and he only hits her when she really deserves it".

Right!?

There was a letter to the agony aunt in the paper yesterday, I've copy and pasted this from the website, and altered it in NO way;

Dear Miriam,

My son, who is 28 and married recently, often stays out all night with his mates and goes to strip or lap-dancing clubs which he says is harmless fun. He gives his wife a hard time when she complains.

I used to behave like this with his mother and I'd give her a gentle slap if she went on about where I'd been the night before.

But, looking back, I may have been out of order acting that way and losing my temper. My son says he works hard and earns good money, which allows my daughter-in-law luxuries and gives him the right to go out with his pals and pay for women to have fun with when it suits him.

I know he got this behaviour from me but what can I do to get him to see he's making a mistake?

Also, when I cheated, I never gave my wife a sexually transmitted disease, which my son has done to his wife, yet she's standing by him.

The fuck! What the fuck happened to you BSlim? All of a sudden you’re sympathetic and shit, caring about people and following the law and shit. I told you not to go to sleep, the pods must have got you. Son of a bitch went to sleep.

DarthCorleone NOOO!!!!

Be careful what you wish for DarthCorleone. TK's basement can be a soul-destroying place.

penchant for blow jobs under the penalty of arson

And all these years, I've been asking politely. Ah well. Live and learn. Apparently, Beavis had it right all along. (Fire. Fire. Fire. He-he-he-he. Fire. He-he. He-he-he. Anybody getting hot yet?)

I have a friend who originally started her American life as a Russian mail-order bride. She is bright, beautiful and not the kind of person to take crap from anybody. Her husband was sweet and charming and she genuinely fell for him prior to coming to America. The night they got married, he beat the living crap out of her and raped her. He never hit her like that again, just because he never felt like it, not that the threat wasn't always there. He paid for her college classes and helped arrange for her sister to join her in this country. She had to hide her birth control because he wanted her to have a kid as soon as possible because then he thought he would own her. As soon as she could, she left him. He tried to get her deported and went after her in the divorce. All their mutual friends and even her sister thought she was being so mean to him after all the money he spent on her. It tore her up to lose the support of her friends and family. Luckily she had a group of girlfriends from college who helped hide her and her dog and sit with her through the court proceedings. She never reported any of it to the police, in Russia you just don't.

That bastard married her sister.

Oksana has a child with a man who regardless of the circumstances surrounding the tapes is a monster. It is easy to sit in judgement of her that she didn't go to the police or acted in some way that you disagree a battered woman should behave. She is doing what she can to try to come out ahead of a no-win situation.

Oksana has a child with a man who regardless of the circumstances surrounding the tapes is a monster. It is easy to sit in judgement of her that she didn't go to the police or acted in some way that you disagree a battered woman should behave. She is doing what she can to try to come out ahead of a no-win situation.
Posted by: Jennifer at July 21, 2010 4:59 PM

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Sorry, but no. She had enough presence of mind to negotiate herself compensation in the millions, she was not (as far as I know) a prisoner in Mel's dungeon she could and SHOULD have called the motherfucking cops. Oooooh but wait, she wanted to keep her status (perhaps) surely she was in NO danger of ending up in the streets with the kid. So the way I see it, she was not under the effects of battered syndrome or anything of the sort. Comparing her to true battered victims is an affront and it takes away from them.

I read on some other site that the Sheriff's Dept. is going to investigate her for extortion and I say GOOD. If they both acted criminally they both need to get sent to the slammmer and that's the end of it.

"Fist dentistry"...hahhaahahahahha

Who the H ever liked Mel Gibson anyway? GEE-ROSS.

You are funny and I like you.

I think its hard for us to accept that a star like Mel Gibson has been this crazy the entire time we've watched his movies. Its almost easier to think he's had some midlife crisis brought about by the Other Woman, than face the actual facts that he has some serious mental problems and substance abuse issues. Do we really want to accept that the beautiful man in "The Year of Living Dangerously" would have happily smacked Sigourney Weaver in the face for getting out of line? Not really. But sadly it seems thats at the very least a threat he likes to make while screaming obscenities at the mother of one of his children.

I am a constant lurker and never commenter, but I had to stand up and say something about this, being a victim of domestic violence myself.

Regardless of whatever you might think of her, NO WOMAN (well, no PERSON, really) ever deserves to be treated like that, under any circumstances. Saying that she "egged him on" or brought it on herself is exactly what our abusers tell us to keep us trapped. If I had a nickel for every time my ex-husband told me that I "made him" hurt me, I would be a millionaire now. It's complete and total bullshit, but I believed it hook, line, and sinker because that's what abused women DO. We don't think sanely, we don't think logically or rationally.

Yall have no idea what she has told the police, or what they have said or done in her situation. In my case, after my ex-husband roughed up both me and our six month old daughter, THEN tried to kidnap her, I called the cops and had five different sheriff's deputies at my house who ALL sided with him. Because I didn't have any "proof" and because I was hysterical with fear - so of course, I must be KERAZYYYY!

I wish to GOD that someone had told me to record the things he said and did to me. She did exactly what a police detective told me later I SHOULD have done: keep the abuser talking and try to get them to say abusive things so that you can record them, because that's the only way the courts will believe you. No one told me to do that while I was still with him, and after I finally found a detective who was willing to work with me, he kept me wire-tapped at all times when I had to speak to my ex. Unfortunately my ex was too smart to say anything at that point, and without "proof" the courts had ZERO sympathy and did NOT believe my situation - because I was probably just another dumb bitch who brought it on myself! - so I had to spend thousands of dollars and months fighting in court just to be allowed to take my daughter and leave the town where he lived.

Sorry this is a novel, but this is a deeply personal and upsetting issue to me, and I hate to see people casually throwing around "shouldas" and "couldas" when they have no idea what being with an abuser is actually like. Have I been sufficiently scathing and/or bitchy, or should I try again?

"I'm thinking of, in my life, instituting an automatic decapitation policy every time I hear "she deserved it." It's one of the oldest misogynistic tricks in the book and I'm just so goddamn tired of people being so ignorant and callous."

Also, THIS.

a couple of observations...

this woman is no victim. she is set for life and there is no shred
of evidence that gibson physically abused her ....." sticks and
stones ..........".

if the picture above the column is a good representation of the
russian whatever, gibson should be maligned for bad taste.

let's see ... hates heigl and worked for a kennedy ... nope, i don't think i like you, courtney.

I think they're both terrible people, and their punishment should be to spend the rest of their lives together.

...probably should let someone else take care of that kid though.

Ummm...here's a thought:

Maybe if Mel wasn't an easily-angered nutcase with millions of dollars, all the supposed "gold-digging" and "provoking" this woman is accused of would not have even been an issue. You know, if he had been able to handle his emotion better than a toddler, nobody would have to wonder if she deserved it or not.

It just seems like, regardless of her guilt or innocence, he should still get burned because HE WAS STUPID ENOUGH TO DO IT.

But that's crazy...right?

@MissLissa- I am in total agreement with you; speaking to a partner in a disrespectful term is not reason for said partner to turn violent. I don't believe I ever said that in my post. I am a firm anti-violence advocate, both for men and women.

In fact, what I DID say was that it does not matter what she did or said; human beings are entitled to a certain level of respect.

I am saying she is not perfect, I am saying I am sure she is a fairly vile person herself. I am saying it is entirely possible that she is just as racist and bigoted as he is, we just don’t have the tapes that demonstrate this. What I am NOT saying is that it excuses his behavior. It does not excuse his behavior, not in any way, shape, or form.

I am also saying that normal people do not speak the way Mel speaks; this is directed at those who defend Mel by saying "everyone talks this way behind closed door,"... what I am saying is that this is not the norm.

I understand you would say these things to your husband in defense; I do not think you were wrong to do so. Please do not insinuate I have said you somehow deserved abuse because of this, because that could not be more opposite of the way I feel.

I am saying abuse, both physical and verbal, is NOT normal. I am sure you know that your marriage was not a normal situation; abusive language is not how it should be. And I am sorry to hear that people have lived in homes where it was the norm.

That being said, I am glad to hear that you are no longer a victim of domestic violence, and I applaud you for having the courage to leave.

Wait, who is Mel Gibson, again?

Welcome C, I like you so far :)

If she feared for her safety why would she stay at his home when he could have used his own key to walk in?

How did he ruin her career when he spent over 5 million to help her?

Why would she tell him she was getting 100k up to when they met. Was she up for sale?

Why would you expose the father of your daughter unless for fear or profit" We know it wasn't fear, so it had to be for profit.

Why would she keep calling him crazy? Is she a doctor?

She had no logic and she's the one who seemed crazy.

Sure he was angry, maybe even drunk, but why would she push his buttoms by playing stupid, innocent, knowing he would only get angrier.

We all have limits, and Mel may need help to get back to basics again, but this fruitcake is a terrible mother and the fake boobs are a sign she is more interested in how she appears to others. Fake boobs, fake sausage lips, user, abuser, and yet STAYS AT HIS HOME.

How dare she insult he's family when she said you spend money on an army, as if he is to forget his past because she is the godless now. He's better off without this person and hopefully next time he will fall in love with a natural and decent person, not some user who thinks the world owes her something.

When people are angry and drunk they say stupid things, not an excuse, but they do, and Mel may need anger management therapy, but she needs prison. What she did to this family is ugly and to speak as if she was the wise one when her logic was pretentious, condesending and stupid. She has the intelligent of a mousse...

I can't believe anyone actually sides with Mel or his ex-wife. Any sane man would have immediately gone to court to establish some custody rights. How many readers of this site can imagine themselves threatening arson and BJs on your x? I doubt this behavior began overnight.