Woody Allen warns of witch hunts
Woody Allen hopes people won’t get carried away with this Harvey Weinstein thing.
Weinstein has been credited with reviving Allen’s career after Allen was accused of abusing Dylan Farrow, his daughter with actress Mia Farrow.
The allegation emerged in the early 1990s following Allen’s separation from Farrow.
The actress left Allen after discovering he was having an affair with her adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn.
But despite working with Weinstein on a number of films – including the Oscar-winning Mighty Aphrodite – Allen said he had never heard any of allegations of rape and sexual assault.
“No one ever came to me or told me horror stories with any real seriousness,” Allen told the BBC. “And they wouldn’t, because you are not interested in it. You are interested in making your movie.”
No, they wouldn’t because you’re the wrong guy to tell, because you’re such a skeeve. You cheated on your partner with her daughter.
Allen said he hoped the revelations, which emerged after an investigation by the New York Times, would lead to “some amelioration”, but said: “You also don’t want it to lead to a witch hunt atmosphere, a Salem atmosphere, where every guy in an office who winks at a woman is suddenly having to call a lawyer to defend himself. That’s not right either.”
Yeah. Gotta make sure guys in offices are still totally free to skeeve on women. That’s what women are there for, after all.
Allen still in motion?
He wants to keep his heads down. Both.
Birds of a feather, eh?
Did Weinstein boast on camera or tape about wanking in front of his employees, or extorting sex from women who’s careers he could sabotage? It isn’t impossible that Allen didn’t hear substantive reports. But that’s the scale of the problem.
I’ve had to report on the actions of a stalker and abuser. One I witnessed committing felonies. And I could get NO ONE to believe me because they hadn’t seen it themselves. The desire to rationalize away the real-life presence of real evil is overwhelming. Even those who did act against Weinstein don’t seem to have had any sense of the scale of his behavior.
In investigating sexual predators, as Lisak has underlined, prior conduct really needs to be examined. Otherwise each incident can be normalized and/or denied.
This is about as dismissive as it gets. You’re not interested in women’s problems, you have important things to do. Seriously. It needs a lot of obliviousness (coupled with misogyny) to even say something like this.
Notice that he did not refute that he was told about Weinstein, only that he did not find credible the people doing the telling.
Another shit.
Why would anyone have told him about the more serious allegations, when he was so dismissive of the less serious ones? That is why men like him have no idea what women experience everyday; they have shown themselves to be so unsympathetic that no woman would dare tell them about their more serious experiences.
That, and the obvious fact that he’s a predator too.
Woody Allen: “As a husband of a daughter, I greatly respect women.” –seen on Twitter.
THAT. Exactly so.