Not like me to be all political, but I've just seen my little girl's face as it poked sweetly and cheekily around the lounge room door at 11pm on a school night. She's down, blue, chemicals working her body to it's last defence of rationality.
She's 12.
She's gorgeous, and that's not just my opinion.
She has shape and beauty and big brown eyes.
Roman Polanski apparently drugged and sodomised a 13 year old girl.
He's a talented director, so apparently this should be forgiven.
Free Roman, they cry.
my daughter is 12.
A crime is a crime, even thirty years on it has still been carved into memory, beaten into your Self. It has made you, shaped you, it must not be forgotten. Or forgiven by us.
I was hurt when I was 9. I thought all I had to do was get my daughter to 10 to feel better, now I feel that I have to get her to 14. Let me die without her hurt, and let my son never grow up to harm.
I don't care that I enjoyed the Ninth Gate; punish the crime that has been commited, and for once say that harm is wrong regardless of the victim's unimportance to the World's distorted view.
That's all I have. I'm still a 9 year old girl, eyes wide and terrified as I face a greying World.
Don't let the World grey for my children.
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Beautifully written Sam.A terrible thing when someones childhood is torn away from them.We have to grow up far too quickly as it is without being scarred by something like this.
ReplyDeleteI went out with a girl once.Her fathers best friend was the local scout master/boys brigade or similar.he was a social worker with responsibilty.He raped her nine times in between the age of twelve and eighteen.Sometimes in her own bed when the family were having a BBQ.She never said a word,she thought no one would believe her.
Every day she thought of taking her own life,and indeed tried.She carried a suicide kit her her car.I went out with her for a year,we never once had sex.She wanted to,we tried but she just couldn't handle it.Events of her childhood destroyed her life.
So,yeh string him up.
the fear I have comes from the reaction of some in Hollywood. It's ok because he makes movies. Phrazes like 'it wasn't rape-rape' and 'just a little mistake' makes you wonder what exactly Hollywood WOULD find discusting.
ReplyDeleteWhat would they find disgusting?
ReplyDeleteSomething that didn't make money or massage their ego's perhaps.
Shower of useless,souless,self centred,weak willed wankers.