If the writer thinks that what Mel Gibson said to his wife, in what he thought was a private conversation, is normal and there should be no “fuss” about it, one wonders at the writer’s own private conversations.
What Gibson said was not only abusive, (demeaning, threatening, condescending, ridiculing etc) but racist as well. This may be, according to the writer, the new norm.
If this is true, and it may well be (there is a lot of other evidence), then the focus should be off Gibson and on the entire culture that makes such ugliness, hatefulness, abusiveness, and racism the new norm.
Lets just play the conversation over and over, and really listen; but forget the particular person speaking. Do we hear ourselves in it? Other voices? How many? If the conclusion we come to is that this is indeed the new norm or becoming so, then the “fuss over Gibson” should really be simply to thank him for showing us ourselves.
What we do with that enlightenment is an open question.
I know Mel is quite religious.
Perhaps he might ascend the Twelve Steps as a new vocation!!!
It’s going to be tough for mel gibson to recoup from this. This might really be the beginning to the end of his long carreer. He should have been much more careful about some of the things he said