I agree to a point, but I think there are probably just as many not-tortured geniuses as there are tortured geniuses. For every Robin Williams, there’s a Steve Martin; for every Amy Winehouse, there’s an Adele. It’s not that Steve and Adele live flawless lives, or that they aren’t surrounded by opportunists, but their…

When someone you love is suffering from acute mental illness, with a history of suicide attempts*, and they go missing... it’s a terror I can’t explain.

Oh dear god no.

Soon-Yi’s relationship to Allen has been underplayed by Allen, et al since the beginning. Facts are, she met him, as a child, as the boyfriend of her adopted mother. And he was a father figure to her and her siblings. It might possibly be legal, but it is in no way ethical and impacted all of those kids and their…

She was too fragile when she was a child-age 7/8 in 1992; as compared to when she wrote the essay as an adult, age 28, in 2014.

She wrote the essay DECADES LATER you dummy

She was a CHILD at the time she was deemed too fragile, in what was arguably the most public rape and child custody case in the world at the time. Coming to terms with it enough to write about 20 years later doesn’t change the fact that back then, she couldn’t face it. Jesus. What doesn’t make sense is that you’re…

See comments above. A prosecutor who says they have probable cause but isn’t going ahead with charges because the victim/key witness is too fragile, is so far from ‘hearsay and bitterness’ that I wouldn’t know where to begin explaining the difference.

This is completely incorrect. The prosecutor in the case stated that there was probable cause to go ahead with charges, but Dylan was so fragile that he didn’t want to pursue them. Woody spent millions of dollars pursing his allegations that Dylan had been coached and he lost every time. This information is public…

Most hikers are day trippers.

Frankly, the world is absolutely full of rocks no one gives a shit about that you can carve your initials into. Keep it out of parks and preserves.

Because if you’re backpacking, you reaaaally want to have a knife or multitool with you.

People who treat nature as their own personal canvas infuriate me.

There’s a distinction between child molesters and pedophiles, with a large amount of overlap between the two groups. Not all molesters are pedophiles, not all pedophiles molest. But once a pedophile starts molesting, yes the odds of it just being one child are slim. As someone else noted, some pedophiles are…

This. He is, at best, a predatory, narcissistic, callous creep of epic proportions; at worst he is a fucking child molester. Either way, not the kind of person I would knowingly work with under any circumstances.

Not always, sometimes its specific to a particular child (some parents will abuse one of their children and not others). There is absolutely no doubt that he was intensely and inappropriately obsessed with Dylan regardless of whether the abuse happened, as he was in therapy for it, so it could have been specific to…

You’d have thought PR recovery from the fact that he’s a thin-skinned narcissist who has made the same terrible film 45 times would have been hard enough without all the pervy sex stuff.

It’s possible to not believe the accusation that Woody Allen molested Dylan Farrow. I happen to believe the story — but there is no real proof. It’s her word against his.

I can’t believe I’m doing this, but her full comments were actually pretty good. The basic run down was “I don’t find rape jokes funny, especially when made by an MC who joked about rape and Hitler in the same three minutes” and “I don’t want to comment on something I haven’t read yet, since I’ve been busy all day and…

I’m not pro-fighting but I acknowledge that kids do fight and always have. The victim’s death is a horrible tragedy, but also an accident. A preventable accident for sure—which makes it worse—but still an accident.