When in Rome...

"After 30 years, Roman Polanski finally got nabbed"

I tweeted that 3 or 4 days ago. It's amazing to me what can happen in just that short amount of time... because now people like Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen are petitioning to free Roman Polanski. Whoopi Goldberg was even quoted as saying, "It wasn't rape rape."

What the fuck does that even mean?!

Here's the story as E! tells it: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b146499_woody_allen_martin_scorsese_free_roman.html

He gave a 13 year old girl a Quaalude and wine. He then had non consensual sex with her while she protested the whole time. That, to me, sounds like the very definition of rape. In addition to all of the aforementioned, he pled GUILTY once he was caught and then when he didn't get the sentence he was promised, he fled the country and has been living in France since then.

So for 30 years, Mr. Polanski was living the high life on borrowed time. He was to receive a Lifetime Achievement award (or something) from the Zurich International Film Festival but now that he was picked up in Switzerland and thrown into prison, Hollywood types are furious and are signing what I'm sure is a strongly worded petition demanding the admitted child-rapist's release.

I'd expect this sort of behavior from Woody Allen. I mean, that guy divorced Mia Farrah and decided to marry his adopted daughter instead. Naturally he'd have automatic sympathy for an admitted sex offender since he's one himself. But Whoopi Goldberg? Really?!? I might be wrong here but doesn't she have a sort of women's empowerment/women's lib history?

Here's the actual conversation on the view so you can form your own opinion on what was said and who said it...




My opinion: Its disgusting. "Would I want my 13 year old having sex? Not necessarily..." seriously?! And then at 3:09 she says, "Where is the mother in this? Why is no one talking about that?"

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Oh ok, so its everyone's fault BUT Roman Polanski's. Its the mother's fault that Roman Polanski raped a 13 year old girl. I'm sure she was there holding a gun to his head, telling him to stick it in her.

Hollywood is known to be out there and crazy. But I think this is one issue that the "industry" should just shut the fuck up about and watch it play out in court instead. Thus far, all the Hollywood types that signed that petition just made themselves look like imbeciles... OR they're just trying to suck up to Scorsese and David Lynch to try and get into some of their newer films.

I'm so ashamed to have ever wanted to be involved in an "artform" like this.