Very Mad Max

Not sure what else needs to be said about Mel Gibson's rant.

Mel Gibson is allegedly heard using a racial epithet and calling his ex-girlfriend a "whore" in a recording released by a celebrity news website Friday.

The two-minute recording posted by RadarOnline.com includes segments in which a voice sounding distinctively like the Academy Award-winner is heard telling his then-girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva, that she is dressing too provocatively and that it would be her fault if she were raped. He uses the N-word at one point, and the recording is laced with his profanity. 

I mean you get the double whammy here, racism and misogyny.  Surely an actor of Gibson's caliber could have worked in a shot at religion, too.

Grigorieva recorded the actor-director because she was afraid he might harm her, the website reported. The actor is heard on the recording harshly criticizing Grigorieva for the way she dresses. He accuses her of lying to him about having breast implants.

"They just look stupid," Gibson tells her at one point in the recording. "Keep them if you want to. They look like a Vegas b----, a Vegas w----."

"You look like a (expletive) b---- in heat, and if you get raped by a pack of (N-word), it will be your fault," Gibson is heard telling Grigorieva. "You provoked it. You are provocatively dressed." 

All I have to say is if you don't think people talk like this when they think nobody important is listening, then welcome to "post-racial, post-feminist America".  It's good to be reminded that we've come a long way...but we still have a very, very long way to go.