What's Sauce For The Goose...

[poliphilo]

We received a belated Christmas card this morning featuring a woodcut by Eric Gill- the sculptor and polemicist- who was also a sex abuser of Savilian shamelessness. Apparently the dodginess of the artist hasn't tainted the art.

Same seems to be true of the movies of Roman Polanski.

It's a generous doctrine. I like it. We should apply it across the board.

So, are you ready?

All together now,

"Tie me kangaroo down, sport,
Tie me kangaroo down..."

Comments

[ooxc.livejournal.com]

Much much worse than Saville - his own daughters?
I'm not making excuses for Saville, but I there was a considerable difference in the two cultures in which they lived

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I can't get my head round Gill. I've tried and I just can't.

What did he think he was doing?

[ooxc.livejournal.com]

It's not just what he might have thought he was doing.
It''s also - how did he get away with it ?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

His family were under his thumb, his friends were loyal and beyond the inner circle who knew?

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

And his own dog, apparently.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

And his son-in-law. basically anything that moved (or didn't)

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

Although, unlike Savile (allegedly), he stopped short of necrophilia.