The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #58065   Message #920856
Posted By: Sam L
28-Mar-03 - 06:21 PM
Thread Name: BS: Thank you, Thank you, Michael Moore!
Subject: RE: BS: Thank you, Thank you, Michael Moore!
I still don't see what the girl's comments have to do with it. We generally don't have victims decide sentencing. It's beside the point whether she brought it on herself or not. A thirteen year old kid might well look for something like that to happen, or some different sort of trouble entirely. He should serve the sentence, still.

The mother--well, I'd done sex and drugs at thirteen, where was my mother? Doing the best she could at the time. If I'd been assaulted by an over-rated celebrity I guess it would have reflected very poorly on her, and everyone would appoint themselves to judge her, and me. Not enough for a kid to get assaulted by a sensational phoney, but everyone gets to cast votes about them as people, like it was a parent and child oscars ceremony. Nice.

I've never seen a Polanski film I thought anything of. Maybe I missed something.