NOW President Terry O’Neill speaks out about the Polanski controversy in a Washington Times article by Jennifer Harper in which she says: “The rekindled legal case of film director Roman Polanski has set off a noisy culture war, pitting Hollywood values…
The editors of The Washington Post published an editorial arguing that: “Sexual assault on a 13-year-old girl isn’t ‘a little mistake.'”
“Roman Polanski raped a child. Let’s just start right there, because that’s the detail that tends to get neglected when we start discussing whether it was fair for the bail-jumping director to be arrested at age 76, after 32 years in ‘exile'” writes Kate Harding for Salon’s Broadsheet.
The Gannett News Service reports: “Women should be allowed to serve aboard submarines, and the Navy is “moving out aggressively” to make it happen, according to the service’s top civilian.”
Playwright and activist Eve Ensler writes on The Huffington Post: “What governor – once an actor, then a Terminator, married to a major women’s leader – has the chutzpah to wipe out 100 percent of the domestic violence budget of California, the biggest state in the country, with a single grope of his veto pen?”