I am sure that by now, everyone has already read Dylan Farrow’s open letter to Woody Allen. I
am sure that it was very difficult for her to write but I can understand why
she needed to do it. While people are
damning her and her mother in a misguided effort to protect Woody Allen, I
think people who believe Dylan Farrow (I won’t post her current name) need to
speak up louder, to drown out the Woody Allen sycophants. To this day, I will never understand how
people can so easily defend men who molest and rape little girls. They fete men like Woody Allen and Roman Polanski……like Dylan Farrow asks, what if it had been your daughter?
The worst part of all of this is the way the Woody Allen
suckasses discount Dylan’s story, claiming it’s a figment of Mia Farrow’s
mind. When you do the actual research,
nowhere do you find anything indicating that Mia Farrow is off her rocker or a vengeful
woman. When you hear stories like that,
they inevitably come back to Woody Allen and his camp. There is no proof that Mia Farrow did
anything wrong. Unlike Woody Allen. In a very in depth article for Vanity Fair,
Maureen Orth writes about the whole case.
There is some pretty damning evidence that has resurfaced. Like the fact that the team of experts from
Yale that was brought in had their own agenda…..working for Woody Allen. According to court documents, many on the
team worked for him. That Woody Allen
and his legal team hired private investigators that were going after the Connecticut
State Attorney’s office. It’s hard to
believe that all this has been forgotten just by Woody Allen calling Mia Farrow
a harpie. It’s diminishes Dylan’s
feelings by emphasizing that her memories are nothing but her mother’s words
and that everything she feels are not only not real, they are hurting Woody
Allen. How do you think that makes her
feel?
There is just so much more screaming evidence. It wasn't Mia Farrow who first sought sole
custody. It was Woody Allen. When the facts about his incestuous affair with Soon-Yi and the his actions with Dylan came out, it was
his first shot across the bow. Woody
Allen was the one who made this public, it seems, according to court records
and news accounts of the day. The fact
that the judge, the state’s attorney of Connecticut and the Manhattan
Department of Children’s Services did not believe Woody Allen screams bigger
volumes than Mia Farrow being a jealous lover, which, in itself, is REALLY a
sick explanation. Yes, Mia is just
loaded to bear with jealousy over a man who seduced her barely legal teenage
daughter and molested her prepubescent daughter. It just shows the chutzpah that man has. That, in of itself, is just disturbing but
goes to the root of Woody Allen’s issues.
He can never take any responsibility for his actions. He just foists it onto Mia Farrow and blames
her. Never mind that your two children hate
your guts, as do the rest of the children and Andre Previn. It's that’s bitch’s
fault. She brainwashed them! You have no culpability! Everyone says so.
That’s the other seriously disturbing part of this story. Everyone claims that Dylan’s story is “Mia’s
story”. Never mind that no one, except
those paid by Woody Allen, has ever said that Dylan was coached or has deviated
from her story. Every time you see the
Woody Allen sycophants come flying out,
protecting their dear idol, it’s always the same, tired accusations. Yet, when you dig farther than the surface,
those accusation never pan out. When it
comes down to it, it’s not about Mia Farrow or Woody Allen……it’s about Dylan
Farrow. She’s the victim. So, when people like Robert Weide keep
claiming that Dylan’s story is “Mia’s story” and constantly pointing out that
Mia’s relationship with Andre Previn and Frank Sinatra as supposedly being
equitable to Woody Allen’s incestuous affair with Soon-Yi Previn, it belittles
Dylan and the rest of the children of the family. And, yes, I call Woody Allen’s affair with
Soon-Yi Previn incestuous. He was her
mother’s lover. She was barely legal
when they started a sexual relationship (that we know of). He was in their
home, in a position that was not as just a guest. He took unbelievable advantage and has never
shown an ounce of remorse. I find that
disturbing. His attitude is flip, self-serving and incredibly self-involved.
Bob Weide likes to
make hay about the fact that the Farrow children’s nanny recanted. Yes, considering that the nanny was paid by
Woody Allen, I’m not surprised. In cases
like this, bribing is not uncommon, and everyone knew that Woody had far more
money than Mia Farrow. He also played
writer’s hopscotch on his claims about the Yale team. Even the judge on the case didn’t buy their
conclusions. The team never even interviewed
Dylan. The team never observed Woody
Allen interacting with any of his children.
And, yes, Mr. Weide, it’s VERY suspicious for a team to destroy their
notes. That is part of the file. What were they hiding? Ask any shrink…..they will tell you that they
do not destroy notes, especially in cases where they are ask to evaluate a
child to see if she can withstand a trial and be able to testify. Oh, and Bob Weide asks why Mia Farrow allowed
this to happen on “her team”….it wasn't “Mia Farrow’s team”. The state’s attorney asked the Yale team to do the evaluation. And Woody Allen was
never “cleared of charges”. He was never charged. The investigation was
dropped. Mr. Weide is playing a bit
loose with the truth. I also like how Bob Weide neglects to mention
that not only did Satchel (now Ronin) fight against seeing his father, under
supervised visitations, he became physically ill. Ronin and Woody had long had a contentious
relationship. But Bob Weide never makes
mention of that. And Bob Weide makes no
mention of the fact that Dylan’s file has disappeared from New York Department
of Children’s Services and that is probably why he was able to adopt (that and
his money). That’s another disturbing
fact. Why did he and Soon-Yi adopt? She was a healthy, much younger woman. It’s just my opinion, but it screams of a preferential
pedophile, who doesn’t like to molest biologicals and can justify his
perversion by adopting. Bob Weide likes
to pretend he wrote a piece that was trying to look at both sides but he fail
miserably. He even excuses the creepy way Woody Allen mailed a huge envelope of pictures to Dylan, with a different name on the return address but dismissing
it, saying that one of his assistants last name was the name on the
envelope. Lame explanation, Mr.
Weide.
I want to make something clear…..I am not a “Mia supporter”. I never care about the adults. I support the kids when it comes to
abuse. And, when you hear about these
types of cases, the kids always get ignored.
And, when it comes down to it, young women are rarely believed when it
comes to sexual abuse. And it’s
incredibly sad because it’s just another way to tell women how little we
matter. We women need to stop accepting
this as the norm. We should not allow
this to continue. Whether it’s geeky
directors like Woody Allen or R&B singers like R.Kelly, we need to start
making law enforcement and society start taking women seriously about sexual
assault. We need to take that power that
they hold over us and tell them, “IT’S NOT OKAY TO RAPE.” Our bodies are not there for men to
abuse. And, when we allow these cases to
go unpunished and keep allowing the abusers to be treated like heroes, we tell
our young women, “Suck it up, baby.
Nothing’s gonna change.” I, for one, refuse to tell my daughter that.
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