Polanski/Goldberg/rape posts/videos
Ms Goldberg: “It wasn’t rape rape” (video/text)
Ms Goldberg, what is “rape rape”?
Samantha Geimer’s niece, now 15, said she googled her name went she was 13 and came across her aunt’s story. Here she talks with her teacher. Some excerpts – for the full comments – GottaLaff.
How she found out:
NIECE: I was 13. I Googled my own name one day, I was bored. My name is so close to hers [her aunt's] that it came up. I did an image search and saw my aunt! I saw all these interviews, and Polanski came up, too. I clicked on a CNN piece, a recap of the story.
I got chills. I couldn’t believe that happened to someone so close to me. I mean, she’s been to my house! So I asked my mom about it. “So , do you know about Aunt Sam?” She said, “Well, what do you know?” She laughed at me Googling myself and then explained everything in detail. “You’re gonna find out anyway.” She explained who Polanski was, and how they met.
Her visceral reaction:
It really disgusts me. What if that happened to me?? He’s so famous! If it happened now, it would be like, they’d say I’m trying to get my 15 minutes of fame.
I felt bad for her, or that it would happen to anybody, being on the news all the time.
I can’t even put into words, someone so genius and Hollywood, such a great director, could do anything so vile and disgusting.
How others see it:
Everyone in the world can talk about it except the people related to it.
It’s crazy how on Nancy Grace, people argue about it, practically spitting in each other’s faces. They think they know her.
I’m sympathetic that her name comes up a lot, and now people talk about her publicly, judge her. Were you there? I wasn’t! I don’t know if I could handle that.
Plain strange:
I think it’s really crazy how small the world really is. My friend’s grandfather was the first cop on the scene of the Manson murders. Six degrees of…. me.
This reflects the passage of time. 32 years ago “girl sense” was completely different.
Every girl has a “girl sense”. Didn’t she have that? I’d never get into a hot tub! Her mother… It’s such a stage mother thing to do. I wonder how she feels. I’m a 15-year-old girl. I’d never leave my child anywhere, even with a celebrity! You don’t know who that person is behind the pictures.
I think she was very naive to stay there. I would have gotten the “girl sense, the creep feeling”. Am I the only one who is that intuitive? Sometimes I get that feeling just from a picture!
How did she develop that “girl sense”?
Her mother pounding it into her because of what happened to her own sister?
