Grrr

[lulahbelle]

Torrents of my own failiure are currently being ignored and I am centring my considerable levels of hate instead upon those who made my mother walk and hour and a half back home in the wet and cold. Fucking anti arms factory people were out demonstrating again

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[edgyspice]

Oh, that Polanski thing. Yeah, one of the writers for the Jezebel blog did a post on it when it came out and she was all like, yeah, this girl kinda knew what she was doing, she was really experienced despite being only 13, and blah blah blah. I was like, WTF, are you kidding? He straight up raped that girl. He fucking gave her booze and Quaaludes and then ass-fucked her! I'm an admirer of his filmmaking but the guy's a sex criminal.

[sushis]

Damn! I'd always thought it was "just" statutory rape...

[lulahbelle]

Yes well it's obviously a great debate as to whether she consented. She says she didn't Polanski says she did and who knows what went down actually. She did have a sexual history and considerable experience with Quaaludes.

However it is, of course irrelevant because her consent is worthless even if she gave it. Morally Polanski is a shit bag.

The reality is though that the judge believed that she consented and in the end it did mean that Polanski was convicted in the end of unlawful sexual intercourse rather than statutory rape which is a lesser charge...

[edgyspice]

The Smoking Gun website has (or had) a PDF of the grand jury testimony where the victim described how Polanski plied her with champagne and 'ludes. It's some sick shit.

[lulahbelle]

I vaguely remember reading that actually it's appalling that you would find such commentary there of all places

[edgyspice]

Yeah, they failed big time with that one. It depressed me, because a lot of times they actually make some astute feminist points on that blog.

[electricwitch]

The Jezebel thing enraged me SO MUCH. Just because in the 60s they had that SEXUAL LIBERATION MEANS WOMEN SHOULD HAVE SEX WITH EVERYONE! ESPECIALLY ME! idea and it was hip then doesn't mean it didn't do a lot of harm anyway.

That's one thing I grudgingly like about Cale's sordid confessions. As we all know he should not get a medal for feminism either but he always talks about the pain and damage and crime that was involved with it when he talks about the 60s/70s. Though obviously he does know a lot more about the actual damage done by that lifestyle to people than little vanilla coke-snorting/dope smoking Factory wannabes who make documentaries.