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Roman Polanski apologies to the girl he raped. Kind of.

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Roman Polanski

So Roman Polanski said that the woman he drugged and raped when she was 13 was “a double victim: My victim, and a victim of the press.” And good effort, I guess? But no. Let Gabe help you:

Uh, hey Roman, let’s try that again buddy, cool? No, no, that was great, you’re doing great, we just want to get one more take on the apology for safety so that we have something to work with in the editing room. First of all, let’s lose the part about the press. Roman. Roman, please. You know that I understand what you’re saying, I hear you, dude. But it kind of seems like you’re trying to split the guilt here 50/50 between you and “the press,” and I think, you know, it’s your first public apology in 34 years so I think you should keep it simple and leave the media out of it. Me? What would I have you say? Hmm, OK, right, OK, yeah, how about: DEAR SAMANTHA GREIMER, I AM VERY SORRY THAT I DRUGGED AND SODOMIZED YOU WHEN YOU WERE 13 YEARS OLD. And that’s it. Action!

18 thoughts on Roman Polanski apologies to the girl he raped. Kind of.

  2. Hey, Roman. Maybe if you weren’t rich and famous and used that same richness and famousness in order to rape a girl and get away with it and THEN maybe if you didn’t flee the country and live in “hiding” in your luxurious home in France and continue making your (what I consider) crap movies THEN maybe if you didn’t go to a country with an extradition treaty and get arrested and act all surprised that your richness and famousness didn’t just make the charges magically drop, the press wouldn’t have gotten involved. Dude, you’re still completely to blame for the press stuff, too. Don’t try to shift it.

  4. What a slimy, slippery pig. Roman, would “the press” have followed the woman you raped when she a child if you hadn’t assaulted her?

    Way to try and deflect some responsibility for the effects of your crime. Fucking shameful, though I guess we are discussing someone who has already demonstrated a lack of shame over raping a 13-year-old.

  6. I thought he had already admitted to what he plead guilty to in the original trial? Ie statutory rape (or whatever that was called in that jurisdiction) as opposed to “rape rape” (to quote Goldberg)?

    If so, why is this latest comment from him news?

  7. His narcissism speaks volumes. A self-righteous attitude will never allow anyone to be reflective enough to ask for forgiveness with genuine contrition. But does that surprise you, really?

  8. Of course, he’s been embolden and enabled for years by a Hollywood that thinks a great work of art excuses all crimes.

    All one needs to do is look at the several despicable Huffington Post pieces written over the years by vapid celebrities (actors, directors, “philosophers” etc.) that defend this piece of garbage.

    It predictably plays into every shallow right-wing conspiracy theory about the left and its relationship with Hollywood; it’s shameful.

    The left really does need to be more careful at times about whom it champions.

  12. Corissa McClay:
    How disgusting. I can’t even imagine the sheer stupidity and denseness it would take to make this kind of statement.

    Well, he must want something. Perhaps he desires to move around a bit more freely, without worry of being arrested at an airport.

  13. Sidenote:

    The victim has made very clear she wants to put this whole f*cking mess behind her, which is her prerogative, and I wish the press/bloggers/ etc etc would respect her wishes and stop mentioning her by name.

    That said, Roman, you are a bad and shameful man and you kind of need a punch to the kidneys.

  14. Does anyone else find it creepy (perhaps a much stronger word?) that he calls her “MY victim”? Yes, it’s true that he raped her and thereby victimized her, but I read it as “I stole from you the ownership of your bodily sanctity and now I’m not only publically reminding you for my own personal gain, but I thought I’d take a little extra jab by calling you ‘mine’.” I’m probably reading too much into it, but I personally find it offensive when a rapist calls someone they violated ‘theirs’.

  15. “I find the whole “my victim/my rapist” language unbearably creepy.”

    yes me too. In fact i sort of don’t like using any survivor/victim language other than if it’s necessry to define someone that way to describe the story or whatever you need to say.

    I think all humans re first defined by being human. We have all carried and experienced various forms of suffering and I prefer language that includes us all. It is true that some forms of suffering are more difficult to carry (a cumulative effect particularly) and that some are falling under their burden and need help.

    This is not because they are a victim but because they are a human having a normal reaction to unbearably difficult circumstances without enough internal/external support and tools to help carry them through.

    All people who need support deserve to have it and I think if we just thought of humans who are needing support as… humans who are needing support— I don’t know, it works better in my head, lol. But as everyone is different I really do understand that we all come to talk about and deal with our experiences however we do so whatever works for people.

  17. Oh, he apologized in the documentary about himself. Now, repeat after me : publicity stunt.

    From the article:

    Polanski chose to use the 2011 Zurich Film Festival as the platform for the world premiere of the documentary, picking the date almost two years to the day when he was arrested here en route to a ceremony to receive a lifetime achievement award.

  18. Since when is 13yr old a woman. The first paragraph from the article

    So Roman Polanski said that the woman he drugged and raped when she was 13 was. A 13yr old is a CHILD, and this monster is a paedophile.

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