I’ll admit it. I like some of her movies, but I loathe her politics. Her portrayal of Guinan on one of my all-time favorite series, “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” always gave me a she’s-not-so-bad impression every time I watched an episode with her in it.
But using her national platform to excuse the rape of a drugged 13-year-old, and even saying it wasn’t rape, is the proverbial straw that broke this camel’s back.
The question is, will more feminists in the blogosphere speak out against Whoopi Goldberg, or will they defend and excuse a fellow feminist the way she defends and excuses child rapist Roman Polanski?
Get her, Sherri!
And get a load of Melissa “Laura Ingalls” Gilbert. Good grief.
Why the hair-trigger urge to defend Polanski instead of bringing the full weight of your defense for the child? Unless you’re his defense lawyer, it’s misguided. Is it an effort to be “fair” or “objective”? Don’t get it at all.
Update: People are focusing on Goldberg’s “it wasn’t rape-rape” comment. Bad enough, yes, but the really awful parts are when she said straight out the drugged 13-year-old was not raped, and her rationale for saying so. Watch the first video in this post.
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