with you on this. - Edit 1
Before modification by Avendesora at 30/09/2009 05:11:42 PM
I really don't know enough about this to actually have an opinion. But I thought the piece was an interesting one, as it discusses not only a French tendency to let artists have special rules, but also other aspects which make that easy dismissal of the objections seem oversimplifying.
13 is usually around the age that women start menstruating. And the age around which many would get married to a much older man who had already lost his first wife in childbirth, if statistics are to be included in the analysis. Honestly, the female in question has forgiven Polanski. Enough. And 13 is not that far removed from the legal age of consent in France - 15. In most of Europe the legal age of consent is 14 to 16.
The victim has forgiven him. So should the people. So should the state.
That doesn't make them all right. It's great that she has forgiven him. I would think that is more for her own sake than for his. Forgiving helps one move on. That doesn't mean he didn't break the law or take advantage of a child. You hear about victims forgiving their attacker/rapist/abuser/etc all the time but it doesn't mean that person should be forgiven by the law. Just my opinion, brutha.