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[rivka]

I've never seen a Roman Polanski movie.

And, you know, I'm glad. Because if there's some sort of magic crack in his films that strips people of any vestige of common decency, then I'm happy to have done without.

Kate Harding sums it up perfectly, as usual.

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[naomikritzer]

Also, even if all he'd actually done was have consensual underage sex, the age-of-consent laws exist precisely to protect young girls against situations where a much-older man sets out to deliberately exploit them. I actually think 18 is kind of absurd as an age of consent; I think 16 is more reasonable, and I think statutory rape laws should not apply to teenagers who are consensually screwing around with teenagers.

But none of those caveats would apply here: she was thirteen, not sixteen or even fourteen; he was in his forties; he got her drunk and gave her drugs.

But also, SHE DIDN'T CONSENT. HE RAPED HER.

[ailbhe]

She didn't just "not consent". She begged him to stop. She begged him to let her go home. She said no, and no, and no.

And he kept going.

Poor, exiled rich guy.