Katha Pollitt writes the absolute best column condemning Polanski and his Hollywood defenders.
It's enraging that literary superstars who go on and on about human
dignity, and human rights, and even women's rights (at least when the
women are Muslim) either don't see what Polanski did as rape, or don't
care, because he is, after all, Polanski–an artist like themselves.
That some of his defenders are women is particularly disappointing.
Don't they see how they are signing on to arguments that blame the
victim, minimize rape, and bend over backwards to exonerate the
perpetrator? Error of youth, might have mistaken her age, teen slut,
stage mother–is that what we want people to think when middle-aged men
prey on ninth-graders?
Read the whole thing. (via Sullivan)
Apt. 11d 