I saw Jay Thomas on Joy Behar calling them both low lifes. He was talking very poorly of her (pretty much calling her a fame whore) and [saying] she shouldn't have recorded him but I don't blame her. Oh, please. Of course she should have recorded him - without that hard evidence, she'd just be accused of being a gold-digging tramp. Which she very well may be, but that doesn't in any way justify the things Gibson did and threatened to do.
Even in our supposedly enlightened age, men keep getting the benefit of the doubt in these situations, and famous men even moreso - "she provoked him", "she's a tramp", "she taped him so she must have planned this". In cases with little or no physical evidence, the man's testimony still tends to be valued and believed over the woman's testimony. Because we women are wily creatures, you know, entrapping men into punching us to we can get their money.
What ****ing horse****. Gibson did what he did and said what he said, and he's an adult who should be credited with the power to make his own choices.
Updated On: 7/10/10 at 01:06 AM