you said i was your blue blue baby

[maudgonne]

Yesterday I read this comment on Gawker about the victim in the Roman Polanski situation (bolding mine):

is it NORMAL or typical of a girl to have lost her virginity, taken quaaludes, and drank alcohol all on/before the age of 13 in the 1970s? she admitted to all three in the testimony. i know hollywood standards are not standard, but this girl

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[shiratic]

i have seen this comment far too many places already. what the fuck is wrong with people?

(you will see that i have some misgivings about polanski's arrest, but they have basically nothing to do with polanski.)

[maudgonne]

Well, according to some people, it wasn't "rape-rape." (Oh, Whoopi. I liked you!)

And I'm with you on the justice system in this country. It's obviously terrible in California especially. I don't know that "punishment" is really the answer here, and I don't have any ideas about acceptable alternatives to the current prison system. That's what I'm not talking about justice or the legal system or anything else except the total immorality of rape apology and victim-blaming.

[shiratic]

seriously, who are these people?

yeah, it sounds like you and i are on the same page here. i also saw today that anne applebaum (she's a columnist for the washington post, among other things), who i have always had issues with, wrote a long column defending polanski and did not bother to mention in it that she's married to the polish foreign minister. conflict of interest much?

[maudgonne]

These are people who talk too much and don't think enough.

I KNOW. I saw that, too. And I think we're on the same page, too. Except you are far more invested in the law than I am. I'm mostly interested in social justice and morality. :)