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channonyarrow) wrote2006-08-04 01:14 pm
channonyarrow) wrote2006-08-04 01:14 pm
I am working on expanding my vocabulary in interesting ways.
Okay, look. Yes, Mel Gibson said a Bad Thing, certainly not the sort of thing that we would LIKE our celebrities (because we vet them SO CAREFULLY and obviously you can therefore explain every single starlet including Bai Ling) to say, let alone believe. And obviously, being a celebrity involves having large chunks of your brain siphoned out so that you do not offend your target demographic. And, of course, no one at all is capable of being two different people - this is sometimes called the Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde Theory Of Drunks.
And, obviously, what Mel Gibson believes is wildly important to my life and the consumption of his product. It ain't. If it were, I would be boycotting lots more people than just Tom Cruise because most celebrities have the morals of polecats and the brains of chihuahuas. If you doubt this, look at Hollywood's idea of an awesome and amazing new movie. They're remaking, apparently, The Hulk, because Ang Lee's version didn't tank badly enough.
But - and I realise this is asking a lot because we all care that Mel Gibson not express racist statements that some people in this country think are still acceptable to say - can we all stop caring? Seriously, everywhere I turn, Mel Gibson did this, that, and the other thing, and while he was at it caused global warming, cancer, and the death of kittens.
In a sane world, this would merit two minutes of interest. Alas, we live not in that sane world.
It's Mel Gibson, folks. Either we're going to have to kill him or we're going to have to accept that, when drunk, he's a racist conservative Christian bigot. Anyone surprised by this has not been paying attention to Mel Gibson's existence.
In the meantime, Rumsfeld essentially told the Senate Armed Services Committee (?) and/or Hilary Clinton and the American public at large to eat a dick about Iraq and shut up and quit whining before we're fighting hand-to-hand at the gates of our own homes on Court TV last night. Where is the outrage?
Oh, right, It's being directed at drunk!Mel Gibson who has all the personality charm of a Barbary Ape with IBS and who called a police officer "Sugar-Tits". Aside from the fact that anyone doing that to me in person would wind up looking for their genitals in the gutter, this is not something I can get that worked up about. I didn't invite him into my home, I didn't decide he was a marvellous person and that was why I could feel good about going to see Braveheart - it does not matter who he is as a person. Perhaps if we were looking at, you know, whether racism and sexism were still problems in this country, he might be interesting. But what we're looking at is that he's just OMG SO AWFUL and we have been all betrayed and shit because we bought into his behaviour by watching his movies. It's OUR anger, NOT justifiable outrage, and that pisses me off.
It also pisses me off that Rumsfeld can tell America to suck it and like it and no one seems to care - because Mel Gibson called a cop Sugar-Tits and got on his conservative Christian anti-semitic high horse. If life were perfect, sure, let's hang the bastard - but this is yet another bait-and-switch.
We got baited and we switched. Don't kill your television, kill the media and replace it with responsible journalism.
And, obviously, what Mel Gibson believes is wildly important to my life and the consumption of his product. It ain't. If it were, I would be boycotting lots more people than just Tom Cruise because most celebrities have the morals of polecats and the brains of chihuahuas. If you doubt this, look at Hollywood's idea of an awesome and amazing new movie. They're remaking, apparently, The Hulk, because Ang Lee's version didn't tank badly enough.
But - and I realise this is asking a lot because we all care that Mel Gibson not express racist statements that some people in this country think are still acceptable to say - can we all stop caring? Seriously, everywhere I turn, Mel Gibson did this, that, and the other thing, and while he was at it caused global warming, cancer, and the death of kittens.
In a sane world, this would merit two minutes of interest. Alas, we live not in that sane world.
It's Mel Gibson, folks. Either we're going to have to kill him or we're going to have to accept that, when drunk, he's a racist conservative Christian bigot. Anyone surprised by this has not been paying attention to Mel Gibson's existence.
In the meantime, Rumsfeld essentially told the Senate Armed Services Committee (?) and/or Hilary Clinton and the American public at large to eat a dick about Iraq and shut up and quit whining before we're fighting hand-to-hand at the gates of our own homes on Court TV last night. Where is the outrage?
Oh, right, It's being directed at drunk!Mel Gibson who has all the personality charm of a Barbary Ape with IBS and who called a police officer "Sugar-Tits". Aside from the fact that anyone doing that to me in person would wind up looking for their genitals in the gutter, this is not something I can get that worked up about. I didn't invite him into my home, I didn't decide he was a marvellous person and that was why I could feel good about going to see Braveheart - it does not matter who he is as a person. Perhaps if we were looking at, you know, whether racism and sexism were still problems in this country, he might be interesting. But what we're looking at is that he's just OMG SO AWFUL and we have been all betrayed and shit because we bought into his behaviour by watching his movies. It's OUR anger, NOT justifiable outrage, and that pisses me off.
It also pisses me off that Rumsfeld can tell America to suck it and like it and no one seems to care - because Mel Gibson called a cop Sugar-Tits and got on his conservative Christian anti-semitic high horse. If life were perfect, sure, let's hang the bastard - but this is yet another bait-and-switch.
We got baited and we switched. Don't kill your television, kill the media and replace it with responsible journalism.