This is so the worst thing you're going to read all day.

[Trigger warning for rape culture; misogyny; anti-Semitism.]

I don't really understand why Jodie Foster is described, in the first few paragraphs of Stephen Galloway's Hollywood Reporter cover profile, as the "moral avatar" of American pop culture.

That's a decidedly strange term to use to describe anyone who isn't (say) a character in a Gabriel García Márquez novel, and, even if it weren't, I'm not sure Jodie Foster would immediately come to mind if I were tasked with identifying the celebrity who most embodied whatever it's meant to convey.

And if I couldn't imagine by what measure or principle Galloway came to this perplexing conclusion before I read the following passage, I was even more confounded afterwards:

As for Polanski's complicated character and the resurrection of his rape charge in the U.S., "That's not my business," she says.

Of course not. Everyone knows the most responsible—and moral!—way to respond to the rape of a 13-year-old child is fastidious indifference. It's just unseemly to invade a rapist's privacy.

And, after pages of Foster waxing poignant about what a great person Mel Gibson is, and how not her business Roman Polanski's child raping habit is, all I could do was lolsob when I came to this perfect, hilarious, horrible passage:

It's striking that Foster, who's perceived as such a moral force, is forgiving of men like Polanski and Gibson who are so much less adulated than her. But it's equally striking that both have achieved the one professional goal that has eluded her: recognition as a major director.

Striking. Yes.

Or something.