On Mel Gibson

Yeah he's a mysoginisticbastard (woman hater) alright.

But then male dominated (patriarchic) cultures all over the globe tend to get low down and dirty on women from the killing of baby girls in China, to Indian honor bride murders, to the utter denial of women rights inmany Muslim countries,to African female genital mutilations, to Hollywood and Wall Street money grubing advertising sex objectification of females, to monster rap music abusive lyrics that sets up men as somebodies and women as extreme nobodies save sex toys. Even biblical literature held women tosecond and third class somethings less than fully human or manly. Mant ancient versions ofreligion still hold women as unclean, unworthy creatures who are either contemptible in the sight of God or must have men to always publically speak and act on their because they are not fully human, merely like minors or children.

Appropriate response = protest andboycott of his movies and works and anyone who defends him, starting with his unduly blooded, violent and hypocritical account of the Passion of Christ to his profoundly racist Apocalyspe portrayal of Aztec Indians of Mexico as being somehow more vivicious and terrorizing than the invadingwhites of from Europe.