I love, love, seeing Whoopi tongue twisting herself around this “it’s not rape, rape” scenario. Here she is trying to snag herself a part in the next film of the “world famous humanist” Roman Polanski.
We have it correct. He drugged a 13 year old and plied her with champagne. I’m not sure if that …
Does a ga zillion years make a difference?
From the Independent:
“But in March 1977, Polanski, then aged 44, made the fateful mistake that hangs on him to this day. He had been commissioned by Vogue Hommes to take a series of photographs of adolescent girls: he wanted to show them, he says in Roman, as “sexy, …
A rare cross posting from Darfur: An Unforgivable Hell on Earth.
There is clearly a debate as to whether all publicity is good publicity. We won’t get into that here, but I lean on the side of usually, with exceptions. “Silence is Not Golden”. As I’ve written about the situation in the Congo here many …
June 3, 2009 – 6:13 pm
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By cooper
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Posted in Blogging, Links, Sexism, Society, Women, activism, human rights, liberty
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Tagged Conflict Rape, human rights, Rape, violence against women, War, Women
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