Reply #20: Call it incredulity.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

I see it. I can't believe it but I know what I'm seeing.

It's very distressing. Women have had to fight very long and difficult roads to not be treated as the sexual chattel of men. Yet, this forum is awash in people seeking to minimize the drugging and sodomizing rape of a minor child while forgetting that the larger context.

It seems as if the revolution has become merely revolting.

If Polanski was a Wallstreet broker we'd be howling that his wealth should not be counted as a boon to his defense.

If Polanski was a priest we'd be screaming that he should not be allowed to hide behind his (s)institution.

But because he is a well-monied brute hiding behind the institutions of art far too many forget that a crime against WOMEN has been perpetrated. Not just any crime but a VIOLENT crime.