tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post7513466700285381766..comments2024-03-29T11:13:00.338+00:00Comments on Ambush Predator: Here We Go Again…JuliaMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-62814280984056098652010-05-25T05:29:22.447+01:002010-05-25T05:29:22.447+01:00"...and seemed to have trouble understanding ...<i>"...and seemed to have trouble understanding my point when I told her that I couldn't believe she'd boycott the goods of entire countries (Israel) on moral grounds but would happily pay money to a man who drugs and anally rapes children."</i> <br /><br />Ah, but that's <i>different</i> you see. Don't ask why. It just IS.<br /><br />And feminists in particular always seem to have glaring blind spots where almost anything can be excused...JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-78126359612463319072010-05-25T00:08:51.830+01:002010-05-25T00:08:51.830+01:00An acquaintance of mine (old-school lefty, support...An acquaintance of mine (old-school lefty, supporter of the USSR and the IRA) was trying to tell me what a brilliant film "Ghost" was and seemed to have trouble understanding my point when I told her that I couldn't believe she'd boycott the goods of entire countries (Israel) on moral grounds but would happily pay money to a man who drugs and anally rapes children. And then she starts coming out with all the crappy defenses Polanski's been spreading all these years. "Yes, well, considering that the age of consent in some American states at the time was only 12..." I actually had to tell this died-in-the-wool feminist that the age of consent is immaterial when the woman doesn't consent. But hey, he made a film critical of Blair, so who cares about a bit of rape, right?<br /><br />One of the things that's pissed me off about the whole episode is that he <i>is</i> a great film-maker and now I can't bare to watch any of his stuff out of disgust. If he'd kept schtumm, I and thousands of others would have carried on in blissful ignorance of why he was living in France. And now I can't read any Robert Harris. Quite apart from the moral aspect, any man too stupid to figure out from his victim's grand jury testimony that Polanski was rather well practiced at what he was doing is unlikely to be a good novelist.Squander Twohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06968628314723491478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-10038884111116972152010-05-23T06:18:17.127+01:002010-05-23T06:18:17.127+01:00"I'm not sure it makes the slightest diff...<i>"I'm not sure it makes the slightest difference what the victim of an assualt (sexual or otherwise) thinks decades after the offence."</i> <br /><br />Indeed.<br /><br /><i>"Eh?"</i> <br /><br />I mean that we don't leave it to the victim to pursue justice as they will - the state does that on their behalf. <br /><br />It's 'the Crown vs..' not 'Ms XXX vs...'<br /> <br />Which is as it should be. To prevent people like Polanski buying off their victims.<br /><br /><i>"He cannot be judged by the standards of we mere mortals!"</i> <br /><br />There's a definite air of that with all the celebrities that have come forward to defend this man, isn't there?<br /><br /><i>"Stick to writing your shitty alternate history novels, Harris."</i><br /><br />They are pretty awful. Perhaps that's why the need to rub up against - ugh! - Polanski..?<br /><br /><i>"Oh, I just did start didn't I?"</i><br /><br />:DJuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-81119388729979193002010-05-22T23:32:33.554+01:002010-05-22T23:32:33.554+01:00If you can't say anything nice, then do...
Ah...If you can't say anything nice, then do...<br /><br />Ahh, fuck it. Harris is scum. I really do mean he's proper bastarding scum. I like the "third of a century" angle. Corresponds pretty closely to the age difference between Polanski and the 13 year-old girl he drugged and repeatedly sodomised.<br /><br />I respect you standards here so I'm not going to start on the morally diseased, filthy scuttery of the toilet-licking power-worshipping maggot people that find it in their shrivelled travesties of a conscience to take out an onion for child buggering schiesse like Paedanski.<br /><br />Oh, I just did start didn't I?staybrytenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-16476559066325944232010-05-22T19:12:29.078+01:002010-05-22T19:12:29.078+01:00Important artistes such as Polanski shouldn't ...Important artistes such as Polanski shouldn't have to be subjected to the same laws as the rest of us. They should be free to rape whomever they want. It's worth it for the <i>art</i>, man.<br /><br />Stick to writing your shitty alternate history novels, Harris.Gibby Haynesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-1732624758187229522010-05-22T18:34:04.220+01:002010-05-22T18:34:04.220+01:00Sudden hot weather can make nice folk quite cantan...Sudden hot weather can make nice folk quite cantankerous, Rab.MTGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-31099321125884960372010-05-22T16:58:20.235+01:002010-05-22T16:58:20.235+01:00But but, he's a genius inni?
He cannot be judg...But but, he's a genius inni?<br />He cannot be judged by the standards of we mere mortals!<br />He must be free of petty constraints to produce his art that so enriches our culture!<br />Well bollocks to that!<br /> Call me old fashioned but if an artist is a complete cunt in real life, that tends to colour my appreciation of his/her whole ouvre.<br /><br />The bastard was found guilty, even after plea bargaining the charges down to something much less than he actually did to the poor girl, and still didn't have the guts to step up and face the music.<br />And of course this isn't the only time he's acted in this way. The word is that he has been at it all his life. His casting couch is reputed to have been extremely messy!<br />Fuck him! I can do without Chinatown and Rosemary's baby.<br />My the cunt die in prison under the amorous advances of Chopper O'Toole.RABnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-98532724197769482010-05-22T15:27:02.018+01:002010-05-22T15:27:02.018+01:00Oh yeah, we're all 'shuddering' in cas...Oh yeah, we're all 'shuddering' in case justice catches up with paedophile Polanski.<br /><br />Just as we're always 'shocked' or 'concerned' - according to the Guardian - when some criminal street-rat gets his/her just desserts. <br /><br />Yeah, right.Greencoatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-71498512803524571562010-05-22T11:37:43.822+01:002010-05-22T11:37:43.822+01:00"The offence is against the state, not her.&q..."The offence is against the state, not her."<br /><br />Eh?Ian Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15436369802742523036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-50209935955748615432010-05-22T10:02:37.572+01:002010-05-22T10:02:37.572+01:00I'm not sure it makes the slightest difference...I'm not sure it makes the slightest difference what the victim of an assualt (sexual or otherwise) thinks decades after the offence.<br /><br />The offence was committed, a trial was held and (assuming it was fair - another matter entirely) the perp was found to be guilty and ordered to be punished.<br /><br />So now he should serve his time, no matter that he's managed to avoid the sentence for decades.<br /><br />How is this so hard?JohnRShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07021101596935644363noreply@blogger.com