This whole thing has made me depressed about the industries of etertainment be they film, TV, books, whatever.
I could almost stretch my brain to understand if it was one of those cases where a sixteen year old girl slept with an adult (or even an eighteen year old) of her own free will and her parents pressed charges. God knows when I was fourteen my parents could have cut a swath of statutory cases through the young male population in my area, but even as an adult, I don't regret any of those choices. I feel they were informed and safe.
But that isn't what happened here. It just plain isn't, and it makes me physically sick to think of all these people I respected and admired saying that it's not only okay to drug and anally rape women, but girls, too. That a celebrity status means it's okay to degrade and abuse another human being, as if your "talent" makes you somehow better than that young woman.
Anyone supporting Polanski should spend a minute imagining how they would like it if, at the age of thirteen, someone drugged and assaulted them.
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Date: 2009-10-07 07:35 pm (UTC)I could almost stretch my brain to understand if it was one of those cases where a sixteen year old girl slept with an adult (or even an eighteen year old) of her own free will and her parents pressed charges. God knows when I was fourteen my parents could have cut a swath of statutory cases through the young male population in my area, but even as an adult, I don't regret any of those choices. I feel they were informed and safe.
But that isn't what happened here. It just plain isn't, and it makes me physically sick to think of all these people I respected and admired saying that it's not only okay to drug and anally rape women, but girls, too. That a celebrity status means it's okay to degrade and abuse another human being, as if your "talent" makes you somehow better than that young woman.
Anyone supporting Polanski should spend a minute imagining how they would like it if, at the age of thirteen, someone drugged and assaulted them.
Seriously. Makes me physically sick.