Re: The Polanski Debacle

[shipperx]

I thought that this article laid out what is outrageous about celebrity defenders of Polanski trying to pose this as it not being a 'rape-rape.'  This article references the grand jury testimony of the victim.  Although it left out this bit of her testimony that I also found particularly apalling.:

"He goes 'Come down here' and I said 'No, I got to get out.' and he goes 'No, come down here' and then I said that I had asthma and I couldn't {...} Q: Did you have asthma? A: No Q: Did you ever have asthma? A: No Q: Why did you tell him you had asthma? A: Because I wanted to get out)

Let's be clear that the guilty plea for the statutory rape in question is quite explicitly an instance of a 43 year old man egregiously exploiting a 13 year old girl who felt totally powerless in a situation that he had engineered and included isolating and drugging her. And he admittedly knew, but apparently didn't care, that she was only 13.