On Thursday, Mel Gibson was addressing a group at Cal State Northridge about his film Apocalypto. During a Q&A session an assistant professor of Central American studies, Alicia Estrada, pushed Mel a little to far. She accused him of racial stereotyping, inaccurately portraying the Mayans as bloodthirsty, and of not doing his homework. Instead of handling the heckler graciously, Gibson tells her to “F#@& Off.” Way to go Mel. You just barely avoided a career ending blunder with your drunken tirade against the Jews last year. I’m not saying she was right. I’m not. I’ll get to her in a minute. But is there no filter between your brain and your mouth? No sense of self preservation at all? What are you doing dummy? If you didn’t learn your lesson last time, you deserve what you get. As I said in my post on the Dixie Chicks, right or wrong, celebrity status is no shield from the consequences of a big mouth.

Now as for our friend the professor. Really, I’ve had it with the whole victim routine. Everyone’s a victim. I’m of English decent, should I get all up in arms because the English were betrayed as the bloodthirsty bad guys in Braveheart? Or Rob Roy? Or every movie about the American Revolution ever? It was a movie. A work of fiction. A work of fiction based on a actual ancient civilization, but still a work of fiction. Sort of like HBO’s Rome. To make fiction interesting you need conflict, usually that means conflict with other people. For the average person to understand and enjoy a movie, you need to have good guys and bad guys. Preferably ones wearing white hats and black hats so its easy for them to figure out who is who. This time the Mayans ended up as the bad guys. You don’t like it, write your own script in which the Mayans are the good guys. So maybe Mel Gibson took a little bit of artistic license to help sell the film. It wouldn’t be the first time thats been done in Hollywood. Get over it and quite taking yourself so seriously. As a member of the most maligned group on the planet, white males (We all know that in todays world of political correctness that white males are the only bad guys everyone can agree on, nobody likes us), I’ll tell you its not worth the effort. Maybe if you’re that bent out of shape, you should take advantage of the publicity generated by this movie in a more constructive way (Like educating people on these racial stereotypes) instead of in a way that makes both you and Mel Gibson come off looking like children.

Here is a full version of the story from E! Online if your interested in reading more.