Since everyone has an opinion about Roman Polanski, just as everyone has an asshole, we thought we’d avoid adding an opinion to the what-should-happen-to-the-child-rapist-Polanski fracas and just link what we think are the most vital pieces of news, commentary and analysis of the whole disaster.
Is our language loaded? Maybe! (Note: We were going to call this post “Today in rape” but that was too much even for us. Of course, it wasn’t too much to tell you that we almost called it that. Congratulate us on our restraint.)
Classic even for Whoopi Goldberg: it wasn’t “rape-rape.” Jezebel
Apparently anything is good for France-bashing over at CBS News, as they suggest that, perhaps — just maybe — the French like child rapists. CBS News Crimesider
Woody Allen — Woody Allen, who married his ex-lover’s daughter and knew her since she was a child — signs petition asking that Roman Polanski be released. ABC News Australia, CNN.
Philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy presses for Polanski’s release and suggests “perhaps [Polanski] had committed a youthful error,” proving that 40 was the new 30 as far back as 1977, making Polanski only slightly less repulsive to most people than he already is. New York Times
A stark timeline makes Sharon Tate’s role in this whole case seem really inconsequential, probably because it is. Time
