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Selective Memory

Hollywood has fractured it's normally unified stance on almost everything in regards the recent Roman Polanski arrest. Many stars are petitioning for his immediate release while others are less quick to forget that he plead guilty to sexually assaulting a minor. Whoopie Goldberg went as far as to say that it's not like it was "rape-rape." No Whoopie, it was only getting a 13-year-old girl drunk and drugged up so he could anally and orally penetrate her. No matter how I look at it, that sounds like rape. Just because someone isn't actively fighting back in a dark alley, doesn't mean the crime didn't happen.

And let's not look past the fact that the girl was thirteen. That's seventh grade age. Most people forget how young kids are mentally and physically at that age. Thirteen is too young to drive or watch rated R movies. Just becuase it ends in "teen" doesn't make it any further away from twelve. Even if the girl had consented to the act, it still would have been statutory rape because she was thirteen!

The guy made good films and had his fair share of hard times but that's no excuse. Michael Jackson was raked over the coals for allegedly having inappropriate relations with kids and he wasn't even found guilty. Polanski admits to it and people just look the other way. Not cool, Hollywood.