No problem! The phrase is so widespread I don’t think people even notice when they use it, but it’s always good to specifically point out these men are preying on children.

“That he basically ignored her for years (before he started fucking her) while carrying on a committed relationship with her mother doesn’t make him not a father figure, it makes him a shitty, toxic father figure.”

Oh geez, you’re totally right - I’m usually more careful about my language in that regard, thanks for pointing it out!

One of the first things they mention is that Allen specifically told Farrow that he would only be interested in adopting a baby if it was white and blonde.

“underage women”? Can we just say “teenage girls” since they are not “women” at all?

I don’t really know that there can be spoilers for something non-fiction that has happened and been publicly discussed for like, 30 years, but I otherwise hear you.

About Ronan being Allen’s biological child- while he is listed as such, and nobody in the family has ever definitively said otherwise, go compare his features with Farrow’s and Frank Sinatra’s. He looks so much like young Sinatra; almost an equal combination of Frank and Mia. There is not one shred of resemblance with…

It wouldn’t surprise me. According to Mia Farrow, Soon Yi had learning disabilities, and a pretty horrific early childhood that likely caused psychological problems as well. Those would have made her susceptible to the grooming overtures of a pedophile, especially one that had a custodial role in her life.

You just sent me down a 3+ hour wormhole of Orson Welles interviews. Time well spent. 

The “he wasn’t a father figure” argument is so incredibly stupid. Of course a child’s mother’s long-term boyfriend is going to be a father figure to some extent. Even before this home video footage was released, pictures of the two of them on family outings were easy to locate with a simple Google Images search. Allen…

After all, the allegations that he molested his adopted daughter came shortly on the heels of the established fact that he fucked his girlfriend’s adopted daughter.

So I could be completely wrong, but memory is not really an accurate record of events, and memories made during a stressful time, like joining a new family, can be especially limited. Any bets on whether Allen gave Soon-Yi an alternate narrative of her early time with the family while he was grooming her? “You never…

There was so much to takeaway from this very first episode. There is clearly a very, very, very weird vibe between Dylan and Allen. He’s hovering around her constantly and it’s noticeably different than a concerned dad or a dad who thinks his little girl is the greatest thing ever. Just in the videos we see, he’s…

Can’t wait for all the celebrities who have defended him’s “knowing what I know now, I regret working with him” statements....

I call this type the aggressive/arrogant nerd. Welles called it. There’s a lot of these types out there. Some are just annoying. Some are Allen.

Yup. There was a family photo in the documentary where Soon-Yi was wearing an oversized t-shirt and shorts. She looks like a child. She dressed like a child. She was a child.

Yikes that’s eerie.

The comment about “Woody Allen the steamroller” (as opposed to the public image of Allen as a neurotic) reminds me of how Orson Welles absolutely pegged him for what he always was decades ago.

This. The guy has SHOWN who he is. Ending up with a child you met when she was twelve is the creepiest goddamn thing in the world, and only a creepy creepy creep would be capable of it. That’s even leaving out the fact that he was supposed to be her goddamned father. If someone shows you who they are, believe it.

I don’t understand how anyone could believe Allen after the business with his stepdaughter.