Woody Allen Releases Statement on HBO's Latest Docuseries 'Allen v Farrow'

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Woody Allen & Soon-Yi Previn Hit Back At HBO’s ‘Allen V. Farrow’: “These Documentarians…Put Together A Hatchet Job Riddled With Falsehoods” https://t.co/6srzEtNHHv
- Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) February 22, 2021
HBO aired the first episode of its four-part docuseries “Allen v. Farrow” on Sunday, setting up for a deep dive into the 1992 custody

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[lauren901]

I just don’t understand how Hollywood was ok with woody Allen marrying his adopted daughter? We’re they all just ignoring this or thought ok? Didn’t someone be like uh what is this crap?

[vainandbitter]

Not to mention that older man with much younger woman or sometimes teenage girl is a theme in so much of his work

[justrachna]

I can only speak from my memory, and since I was a really young child when this went down so take my memory with a grain of salt, I think they really pushed that soon-yi was an adult when they met and he didn’t help raise her narrative that many people believed. For me it wasn’t until Dylan spoke out a few years ago I looked into it and saw clearly that his narrative was bullshit. And it wasn’t that hard to deduce so I am probably dumb or he has a good pr team

[aleksie]

People make so damn many excuses that don't make sense.

[insomniachobs]

Allen pushed hard on the narrative that he'd had little to no contact with Soon-Yi prior to that, and certainly not when she was very young.

Which was bullshit, but a lot of people swallowed it and got hung up on the lack of an official adoptive or step parent tie. As if the mere fact that he was her siblings' father didn't make him enough of a parental figure in her family set up to make this wholly inappropriate.

[genbu_no_miko24]

Because if most people could get into relationships with underage teens, they would.

Marrying your adopted/stepdaughter is a huge red flag but people also wanted the prestige and possible Oscar nod/win of being in a Woody Allen film on their resume.

[gloeden2]

I don't believe that. I do not think most people, even most hetero men, have any desire to be in a relatioship with a child nor to even have sex with a child. I know some do, whether male or female, hetero or homo or whatever.
But I do not believe or have seen any evidence that "most people" would involve themselves in any inappropriate romantic or sexual way with underage teens.
I think the fact that so many people are unwilling to believe it when it happens, like with a Woody Allen, is because they cannot imagine themselves doing it and find the idea so reprehesible, that they immediately start thinking there must be some reason, something they're not privy to, that allowed it to happen. So they give the benefit of the doubt to the adult in the situation because it seems impossible that someone else would break a cultural and legal taboo that they themselves have no interest in breaking.

[britneyspears]

...and as a woman who endured disgusting comments from grown ass men beginning in the third grade and who had to "cover up" when around older male relatives, I'm fine with saying this is true of most hetero men

[gloeden2]

I'm not going to argue with your experience.
So gross.

[allmylines]

i think i've seen other comments here indicating that you are a man (apologies if i'm incorrect) and let me tell you that it's absolutely true, based on all of my interactions with men starting from when i was a preteen (and even younger)

signed,
a woman

[gloeden2]

My own experiences as a child, as a boy, included being almost molested by grown men and grown women. Including a woman trying to lure me into her car when I was 12 years old. I KNOW that adults are more than capable of doing this and will, ESPECIALLY to girls and young women.
My point is the idea that all of us, men or women, seeking sexual and/or romantic encounters/relationships with children or young teens, is not the case and, logically, to make my point explicit, if this was true, it would mean you as an adult, have been attracted to the idea of sexual and/or romantic relations with a child or young teen. I doubt that is the case and I doubt you are the only exception to the idea.
I respect your experience and I respect that some people, especially men, do sexualize children and young teens. I've seen it, I know it's true, I'm not denying that.

[allmylines]

i'm very sorry about your experiences and nobody should ever have to go through that

i just think there's a very particular, fucked up dynamic between a lot of older (heterosexual) men and young girls that are pretty invisible to a lot of society (not in woody's case, obviously). that's the point. but i got the most creepy attention from men the younger i was, and pretty much all of my female friends have the same experiences. i was first sexualized by older men when i was 9 years old, and i was EXTREMELY skinny/flat chested/young looking.

straight men are trash, basically.

[gloeden2]

I'm sorry you and any women have to go through on an almost daily basis.
I'm never going to pretend or claim that isn't real and indefensible, whether it happens to a grown woman or teen girl and espcially to a child.
My comment was intended to be very very narrow in its scope and not excusing or defending men or anyone who does any of this.

[allmylines]

I do not think most people, even most hetero men, have any desire to be in a relatioship with a child nor to even have sex with a child.

this does not seem very "narrow" to me.

editing to specify how hurtful and fucked up it is for a man to comment with such a broad-based comment like this one, particularly when you specify HETERO men. you have no idea what it's like to be targeted by a gross old HETERO man as a young girl. it's traumatizing, and way more common than you and most other non-women want to believe.

[gloeden2]

"Most" is a huge huge swath. To me, saying "most" of any general group, i.e. Blacks, Whites, Asians, men, women, will all tend to do some disgusting think to other humans, is hard to believe and not verifiable.
I DO think that we make excuses for others like us because we personally would never do a disgusting thing.
I would agree, if it was said, that most men, most people, don't want to believe it when young women or women in general, talk about their experiences being abused, molested, generally sexualized against their will. I remember how much children weren't believed and it wasn't until the 90s really that we saw things change in how people thought. I don't believe people didn't want to believe children were being molested/raped because they themselves wanted to do it, just to use an example.

[allmylines]

yes, but YOU HAVE NEVER HAD TO BE ON THE RECEIVING END OF THEIR CREEPY ASS BEHAVIOR SO PLEASE DO NOT SPEAK FOR ALL OF US WHO HAVE

you will literally never understand. period. jfc.