I shall come clean. It was me that asked the question. I should make clear that I'm not trying to defend Polanski, and I'm not going to quarrel with describing Polanski as a rapist. But I think there may be a distinction here between what he was originally charged with (and probably did) and what he admitted to and was convicted of, a distinction which not all commentary is observing. And that distinction I think sheds light on why Whoopi Goldberg can talk about what Polanski did as not being 'rape rape', i.e. not a non-consensual sexual assault, as opposed to statutory rape.