I Coulda Rolled Like OJ

[Trigger warning.]

Fucking hell:

Pro wrestling legend Hulk Hogan, embroiled in a bitter divorce with his wife, Linda, told Rolling Stone magazine he can "totally understand" O.J. Simpson, the former football great found liable for the deaths of his wife and another man.

"I could have turned everything into a crime scene like O.J., cutting everybody's throat," Hogan said in the interview for a feature that will run in Friday's edition of the magazine.

"You live half a mile from the 20,000-square-foot home you can't go to anymore, you're driving through downtown Clearwater [Florida] and see a 19-year-old boy driving your Escalade, and you know that a 19-year-old boy is sleeping in your bed, with your wife ...

"I totally understand O.J. I get it," Hogan said.

Hogan's rep commented that his client "in no way condones" the murders for which Simpson was acquitted in a criminal trial and later found liable in a civil trial. Hogan was merely "referr[ing] to it to exemplify his frustration with his own situation…as part of a larger conversation." Um, yeah. I'm pretty sure that he chose a murderous rampage as the apt metaphor to "exemplify his frustration" is the exact thing by which everyone is appalled, but thanks a fuckload for the clarification.

It's an interesting commentary on our culture and how suffused it is with imagery and narratives of gendered violence that "He was only totally relating to a guy who brutally slaughtered his wife; it's not like he was actually planning to brutally slaughter his own wife!" is considered a legitimate mitigating explanation.

[H/T to Shakers Kira and Christi.]