Its obvious to me: what you have here is just your garden-variety teenage slut, doing what teenage sluts do. Big deal.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0928091polanskiplea1.html

First of all, I said ALMOST. Second, it’s not in the plea. Familiarize yourself with the source material before you comment.

Jose, you are taking the moral crusader perspective.

No. I don’t know what should be done with Polanski in a legal sense. I’m just calling out people like you who seem to think there’s some question about whether a sexual encounter even happened, as well as people who think he was set up.

According to Polanski. Why do you accept what he said as fact?”

Well, because you do, way up there when you compare her testimony to his and note that they are almost the same, except the poit of consent. Seems to me his word is good, based on YOU noting that it matches hers. Good enough for me.

Again, @100: You seem to be talking yourself into the position that there was some form of ‘agreement’ whether that was the girls mother as a pimp ( as is SOOOO often the case in AMERICA in these situations) but also you say “Nobody is exploiting and demonizing men,” which could in a limited sense seem true in this situation–untill you bump into this wall: as Kristine pointed out, California is dying, and releasing 40 000 inmates into general population.

What this means is that a lot of these offenders are victims of that other moral crusade–the drug war–and those other men who were convicted as ‘violent offenders’ even when no actual violence existed–are being replaced with a face for ANOTHER MORAL CRUSADE AGAINST ‘VIOLENT MEN’ which is men being portrayed as as “violent rapists” even when no force or actual physical violence isn’t used.

Jose, you are taking the moral crusader perspective.The moral crusaders are always just one thin wall, or one thin blue line away from being seen as exactly what they crusade against.

Kristine: your perspective on this still rocccccks!

Could you explain what you mean by that? It’s very cryptic and doesn’t make a point. Which people seem to be confusing a sense of sexual liberation and molestation? Who’s sense of sexual liberation are we talking about here?