Why Wasn't Mooney Lynn Ever Arrested for Sleeping With Loretta? - Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) Discussion

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It wasn't much of an issue then (especially in that area).

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[–] gnolti 14 years ago

Human nature doesn't change in 50 years. What was so different in the 1950s that isn't true today?

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[–] dichotomymom 14 years ago

Segregation, gender discrimination, etc......

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[–] GroovyDoom 14 years ago

The only thing that's different now is societal attitudes. It's interesting, Loretta was the same age the "girls" on "To Catch a Predator" pretend to be, and those men are shamed on national television for being "perverts". Doolittle gets a movie made about him that portrays his relationship as acceptable.

However, comparing Loretta and Doolittle to Polanski and his victim is apples to oranges. I am fairly certain Doolittle did not coerce Loretta or drug her with booze and pills and then sodomize her.

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[–] gnolti 14 years ago

But at 21, that would still make him a legal adult. And saying that as long as he could get away with it by waiting until she was in her 20s is hypocritical, because it tries to erase or ignore the years he spent bonking her in her teens.

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[–] gnolti 14 years ago

Why are you trying to turn this thread into a referendum on Polanski?

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[–] gnolti 14 years ago

I was merely using Polanski as a verb, the way some people would use "Bork" as a verb.

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[–] dragoncane 14 years ago

Her parents consented, simple as that.

It didn't ignore anything about her teens. It wasn't illegal. They were married. Again, with her parents consent.

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[–] Mad_Farter 14 years ago

Did you even watch the movie? I just did. It's pretty good. Now to answer your question. Since when is it illegal to sleep with your own wife? And they were both adults already. Hello? Polanski statutory raped a 14 year old. Can't you see the difference?

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[–] DCompton86 14 years ago

They were legally married...you can't arrest someone for sleeping with his wife as long as its consensual.

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[–] southernbelle00 11 years ago

In those days, sex between a married couple was not considered rape even when it was not consensual. It has just been in the last few decades that a man could be charged for raping his wife. Sad but true.

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[–] i_dont_even_try 14 years ago

He didn't lure her to someone's house under false pretense, surreptitiously drug her and then anally rape her. Dimwit.

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[–] swmpman 14 years ago

They were married and she was of legal age in Kentucky.

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[–] gshows-1 10 years ago

They were married, that's why it wasn't statutory rape. She had parental consent to marry.

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[–] sonofbeach-sheet 10 years ago

Back then, if you had hair down there and had bled, you were an adult in terms of marriage. In that part of the world, mountain people's life was about staying warm, clothed, and fed. It took up the whole day to do that then.

But yes, Loretta did have her young years taken away and should have waited a few more.

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[–] jimbrown257 9 years ago

Attitudes were different back then. The concept of "adolescence" is an invention of the 20th century; it used to be that once you passed puberty you were an adult. Many rural places, like the one LL lived in, were slow to pick up on the idea of "underage" sex. Actually, it wasn't just rural areas. Melanie Griffin lived with Don Johnson when she was 14. It was just a different time.

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[–] snelling 8 years ago

Melanie Griffith, not Griffin.

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[–] au561 8 years ago

They were married. Every other state by law must honor and respect a legal Marriage. And the Age of Consent in Kentucky at that time was 13, as it was in most of Appalachia, and many States in The South and west of the Mississippi.

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[–] !!!deleted!!! (67334719) 8 years ago

She was with him for tweleve years when she left home for her tour.

"Girls just wanna have fun"

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