i keep posting about this because it's a subject near and dear to me

i'm not going to go ninja on his ass like i did with whoopie. that only succeeds in making ME angry all day.

it's a subject i know intimately well. it's a subject i've lived with for almost my entire life. it's a subject i help other people deal with. it's a subject that is in my life EVERY DAY.

a grown man having sex with a 13 year old girl is rape. even if there were no drugs or alcohol involved. it's rape.

there is NO jealousy on my part or on the part of anyone else who feels as i do. i can seriously say i am not jealous of roman polanski, his movies, or his wife or his life.

it is beyond belief people are making excuses for a man who plied a 13 year old with drugs and alcohol and then raped her. mr lasalle i ask you. do you have a 13 year old daughter/son (or did you at some point)? a niece/nephew perhaps? how would you feel if a 40 year old man 'slept' with YOUR 13 year old? would you say aw, that's NOT rape? would you say aw, it's ok because that grown man makes (good) movies? (what if he made porn movies or b movies? would you still be so forgiving????)

i do NOT understand how one person in the entire universe has an issue with roman polanski being arrested. i just don't.

celebrities get a raw deal? uhhhhhhhhh think again

SF Chron's Polanski Apologist Gets Mad
— By Jen Phillips

San Francisco Chronicle movie critic Mick LaSalle is getting hot under the collar. The Polanski-supporter published a scathing op-ed just before 10am PST on Sunday, October 11. But by early morning October 12, the article had been taken down. The reason? LaSalle got into a flamewar with his commenters and huffily announced that he was "leaving this post up for exactly five more minutes, and then I'm taking it down because I can't keep up with... the stupidity. Five more minutes, maybe I'll put it back up later..."

To be fair, the commenters were ruthless, and they had a lot of material to work with. I've read a LOT of Polanski apologism, and this was still a jaw-dropper. LaSalle wrote "celebrities get a raw deal from the law and the courts." While admitting Polanski "did a bad thing," LaSalle argues that Polanski's early trauma should "earn him some human sympathy. Just some. So why none? Why no human sympathy?" LaSalle thinks many people hate Polanski because they're jealous of his talent and pretty wife: LaSalle's readers vociferously disagreed. So he unpublished ALL their comments AND the article........

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