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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 19 — Dakota Fanning will turn 13 next month, and she has a short answer for anyone who questions her decision to play a 1950s girl who gyrates in her underwear, wakes up as her naked father climbs into her bed, demands that a prepubescent boy expose himself to her in exchange for a kiss and, finally, is raped by a teenager who lures her with tickets to an Elvis concert:
She’s growing up. Get used to it.
-- David M. Halbfinger
Seriously, people need to chill out.
Some conservative and feminist types cannot seem to distinguish between movies/fantiasies and real life. Indeed, they seem to regard movies as being more serious:
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 19 — Dakota Fanning will turn 13 next month, and she has a short answer for anyone who questions her decision to play a 1950s girl who gyrates in her underwear, wakes up as her naked father climbs into her bed, demands that a prepubescent boy expose himself to her in exchange for a kiss and, finally, is raped by a teenager who lures her with tickets to an Elvis concert:
She’s growing up. Get used to it.
-- David M. Halbfinger
Seriously, people need to chill out.
Some conservative and feminist types cannot seem to distinguish between movies/fantiasies and real life. Indeed, they seem to regard movies as being more serious:
About the online petitions to have [the filmmaker] arrested, she said that the district attorney’s office in Wilmington was busy prosecuting real sex crimes, like one in which a 10-year-old girl was impregnated by her father. “All these cases are reported in the newspaper, and nobody ever calls them about that,” she said. “But they get 10 to 20 calls a day from people insisting that my movie be prosecuted.”But I don't suppose this will ever go away. At least not in my lifetime, alas.
