{"id":4169,"date":"2018-09-30T15:58:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T15:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2018\/09\/30\/roman-polanskis-rape-victim-defends-him-against-esquire-article-ive-grown-up-why-cant-everyone-else\/"},"modified":"2018-09-30T15:58:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T15:58:57","slug":"roman-polanskis-rape-victim-defends-him-against-esquire-article-ive-grown-up-why-cant-everyone-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2018\/09\/30\/roman-polanskis-rape-victim-defends-him-against-esquire-article-ive-grown-up-why-cant-everyone-else\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman Polanski\u2019s Rape Victim Defends Him Against Esquire Article: \u2018I\u2019ve Grown Up, Why Can\u2019t Everyone Else\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The news that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/roman-polanski\/\" id=\"auto-tag_roman-polanski\">Roman Polanski<\/a> not only has a new movie in the works but that it reportedly concerns a man accused of a crime he didn&#8217;t commit has received an expectedly mixed reaction. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/entertainment\/a23525493\/roman-polanski-j-accuse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Esquire<\/a> wrote about the film&#8217;s place (or lack thereof) in the #<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/metoo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_metoo\">MeToo<\/a> era, which didn&#8217;t sit well with at least one person: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/samantha-geimer\/\" id=\"auto-tag_samantha-geimer\">Samantha Geimer<\/a>, whom the filmmaker was found guilty of having sex with in 1977, when she was 13 years old.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Roman hardly need a #MeToo comeback. This is all you&#8217;ve got Esquire, attacking a man who has apologize and made amends years ago?&#8221; she <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sjgeimer\/status\/1046210953275232256?s=11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/09\/jaccuse-roman-polanski-next-movie-me-too-1202008028\/\" title=\"\u2018J\u2019Accuse\u2019: Roman Polanski\u2019s Next Film Is About a Man Wrongly Accused of a Crime, Leaving Some Suspicious\">\u2018J\u2019Accuse\u2019: Roman Polanski\u2019s Next Film Is About a Man Wrongly Accused of a Crime, Leaving Some Suspicious<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;Pleaded guilty served his time,&#8221; Geimer continued. &#8220;Abused along with his &#8216;victim&#8217; by the same insane judge. I&#8217;ve grown up, why can&#8217;t everyone else.&#8221; (Polanski didn&#8217;t actually serve his time, however, as he fled the country when he learned that he would be sentenced to further jail time and has yet to return in the 41 years since.) Geimer&#8217;s Twitter profile notes that she&#8217;s been &#8220;fighting losing battles since 1977.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Geimer has made similar comments in the past, most of which have to do with moving on from the experience and not prolonging it any further. Earlier this year she spoke to IndieWire about the handwritten apology Polanski sent her, which she seems to have accepted: &#8220;It was really meaningful to the other people around me who care about me, which then made it really meaningful to me. Anything that can make my mom feel better is something I\u2019m grateful for,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/02\/roman-polanski-rape-victim-samantha-geimer-quentin-tarantino-me-too-1201927148\/\" title=\"Roman Polanski Rape Victim Samantha Geimer on Tarantino, Polanski, and Why Apologies Matter [EXCLUSIVE]\">Roman Polanski Rape Victim Samantha Geimer on Tarantino, Polanski, and Why Apologies Matter [EXCLUSIVE]<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;Apologies \u2014 I think you should take them, even if you don\u2019t want them,&#8221; Geimer added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Roman hardly need a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MeToo?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">#MeToo<\/a> comeback. This is all you&#8217;ve got Esquire, attacking a man who has apologize and made amends years ago? Pleaded guilty served his time. Abused along with his &#8220;victim&#8221; by the same insane judge. I&#8217;ve grown up, why can&#8217;t everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Samantha Jane Geimer (@sjgeimer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sjgeimer\/status\/1046210953275232256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">September 30, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news that Roman Polanski not only has a new movie in the works but that it reportedly concerns a man&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-4169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-15f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}