Tuesday, July 13, 2010

This morning on the Today Show, medical correspondent Dr. Nancy Snydeman

set women back two centuries. She and legal expert Judge Jeanine Pirro commented on the Mel Gibson debacle. As we now know, affable male buddy and Oscar winning Mel Gibson left, at best inappropriate and at worse, criminal evidence on tape.

Dr Snyderman commented first when she threw girlfriend and mother of their child Oksana Grigorieva under the bus. Her first response to the tape was that Oksana baited him. She went on to imply that Oksana's passive aggressive language was to blame for Mel Gibson's tirade.

That is like blaming the woman who was raped for wearing a short skirt.

Are we back to blaming the victim?

These comments came from a woman.

These comments came from medical person.

These comments came freely: Not in answer to a trick question or stacked agenda.

It is 2010 somewhere in this world, but not on the Today show. Are we back to blaming the victim? Women blaming women, how far have we not come?