Hey Roman Polanski... Fuck You

[Ohio Joe]

You might not suppose Roman Polanski and the 87-year-old Jerry Lewis had a great deal in common, but today the director followed Lewis' suggestion that broad comedy is inappropriate for women actors by complaining that aiming for female equality is "a great pity".

Speaking at the Cannes film festival of his latest film Venus in Fur, the 79-year-old Polanski said that "trying to level the genders is purely idiotic." "Offering flowers to a lady has become indecent … The pill has greatly changed the place of women in our times, masculinising her. It chases away the romance in our lives."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/may/25/cannes-2013-roman-polanski-female-equality

What a dumbass shit bag.

[JustAnotherGen]

1. He's a pig from hell

[JaneyVee]

2. Well he is a rapist and womanizer. F**k him. Not the first dumb thing he's said.

[Nye Bevan]

3. He plied a 13-year old girl with Qaaludes and champagne and anally raped her.

So I'm really not that interested in his thoughts on "romance".

[In_The_Wind]

35. +1

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. ageed!

[Logical]

5. The POS should be in jail. n-t

[BlueToTheBone]

6. Cowardly, criminal child sexual predator.

I have no care for what he might think. He has lost the right (in my mind) to be heard on any level.

[ZombieHorde]

7. I love his movies, but yeah, that is fucked. nt

[shenmue]

8. What a piece of shit.

Ack. When will he go away?

[bettyellen]

9. wow, what a skewed vision. he'd prefer his victims get pregnant, too?

Or is that why he chose anal? Super old school piggery.

[Whisp]

10. felon pig man from hell speaks and shit spews out of his headhole. ugh. n/t

[Chan790]

11. Was anybody really expecting comments reflecting respect for women from Roman Polanski?

It would be like expecting sensible gun control proposals from Ted Nugent.

[whathehell]

13. Considering some of the women who support him, you might expect it, yes.

On the other hand, those may just be self-loathing, anti-feminist females.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

12. Someone plese tell his ass not to mention pills in the same

sentence with women.

[alp227]

36. "not to mention pills in the same sentence with women": HA! You just did NOT go there huh?

You should have included THIS smiley:

[Tom Ripley]

14. Even if he weren't a child rapist, he would still be a vile, overrated toad of a man.

He has always been a creep.

[madokie]

15. rapist and pedophile comes to mind when I read polanski name

[Prophet 451]

16. "Offering flowers to a lady has become indecent …" but rape is still rape

Polanski drugged and raped an underage girl. He should be in jail.

[Honeycombe8]

17. I would expect no less from a pedophile rapist, that he doesn't view women as equals. nt

[redqueen]

18. LOL @ any dumbass braying shit like "women are being masculinized!" or "men are being feminized!"

Get over your love of gender roles, already! The world is moving on with or without you!

[msanthrope]

29. "Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism."

http://jezebel.com/5718817/assange-sweden-is-the-saudi-arabia-of-feminism

Consistency is good.

[alp227]

38. You know what's real wild? A certain right wing forum with a very generic layout

is now EMBRACING Polanski for this stupid endorsement of the patriarchy from his wrinkled old perverted senile rotten brain! One poster actually wrote: "I’m not excusing his behavior at all. I am agreeing with what he’s saying here."

[eissa]

19. I fucking hate this pedophile POS

and never understood why he's been given a pass by some in the movie industry. I adamantly refuse to watch any of his films.

[smirkymonkey]

20. He is a disgusting piece of shit.

Ignore him.

[msanthrope]

21. Rapist talking about gender. Lovely. nt

[nomorenomore08]

22. Shouldn't a guy who's out to screw a lot of women consider birth control a *good* thing?

But I guess being an "artiste" - even one with, admittedly, some great films under his belt - means common sense isn't necessarily one's strong suit. Sort of like von Trier at Cannes a couple years back.

And this isn't even getting into Polanski's more predatory side. But I figure that should probably go without saying.

[YeahSureRight]

23. As far as pedophile directors go I prefer Polanski’s films over Woody Allen’s

[Logical]

31. LOL, you really compare the two? One was drugged and 13 years old. One......

was 19 years old and consensual. You need to do more reading!

[YeahSureRight]

32. it was his frigging daughter for christ sakes!

at least he had the good graces to wait till she was legal.

[Logical]

34. OK, it was not his daughter. Farrrow and Allen were never married and Farrow legally....

adopted Soon-Yi. And she was 19 when they started the relationship. She was legal. You realize 18 years old is old enough to be a porn star? Not even his step daughter.

Is it weird? Sure. But a consensual relationship between a 65 year old man and a 19 year old is not illegal. Ask Hugh Hefner.

For you to compare Allen to a man who drugged a 14 year old girl and raped her is really sick. You need to pay a lot more attention.

[Lunacee_2013]

24. The pill chases away romance?

WTF? How? By letting women decide when we get pregnant? What a fucking tool, lol!

[alphafemale]

25. HEYYY LAAAAADDEEEEE!

That hasn't been funny in forty years. Why don't you just curl up and die you wither dick old men. Amy Poehler is 100 times funnier than you ever were Jerry gimp porn Lewis. Women directors made way better movies Roman child butt rape Polanski.

[Inkfreak]

26. And Hollywood continues to support him. Disgusting.

[chervilant]

27. This from a pedophile...

Yeah, I'm likely to listen to his blatherings. NOT!

[thucythucy]

28. I agree with everything everyone has said on this thread

thus far.

To which I would add: I don't expect Jerry Lewis to be familiar with contemporary comedians and actors, but shouldn't the man at least be aware of Lucille Ball? The chocolate factory scene in "I Love Lucy" alone is funnier than anything Lewis ever did, and by miles. Anyone but a sexist would recognize Lucille Ball as one of the funniest "broad comedians" of the 20th century. Anyone. But. A. Sexist.

Lenny Bruce, in "How to Talk Dirty and Influence People," did a terrific (and hilarious) takedown of Lewis. Even by the standards of 1950s American comedy, Lewis's "impersonations" of Japanese people were hugely and obviously racist.

As for the other guy, I don't want to risk losing my breakfast by trying to type his name.

[Orrex]

30. He's an amazing artist

I mean, one would have to be an amazing artist to be able to reinvent oneself as an even bigger vile shitbag then the big, vile shitbag that Polanski has been for the past four decades. Yet somehow Polanski has managed it.


Amazing!

[ismnotwasm]

33. Yup

In another thread I said I'm going to rewatch "I Spit on Your Grave" in his honor.

[Rex]

37. The pill makes women into men?

What a load of horseshit...what this REALLY sounds like is a little man afraid of the liberated women!

I always knew he was a small minded asshole.

[alp227]

39. The Cave/Freep trolls may think that "TEH LEFT" worships and defends Polanski...

but a search thru DU says a big grumpy cat NO. Hell, one of my favorite bloggers Ed Brayton (who's excellent with civil liberty issues) says that RP should "be in prison."