Sorting Out the Polanski Case

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Mon, 10/19/2009 - 12:00am

Film director Roman Polanski was recently arrested in Switzerland for possible extradition to the US to face charges for raping a 13 year old girl some 30 years ago.  Many in the film industry have risen to defend him.  In this commentary, Frann Michel demonstrates how these defenses reveal the male supremacy that lies at the heart of bourgeois ideology.   Here are links to her sources:

David Walsh

The case of Genarlow Wilson

Joshua Holland

Shelley Ettinger

Allison Anders

Polanski's out-of-court settlement

Melissa McEwen

Amanda Marcotte, plus this

Republican Senators against due process for rape victims

Harriet Jacobs  at Fuguitivus

The Not Rape Epidemic

 

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