Middle aged and older men taking on teenage lovers and brides was reasonable in times when girls were expected to marry while still in their teens but the high mortality rates among young men from War and Disease resulted in a shortage of appropriately aged eligible bachelors. And older men often lost their wives to…

Why bother to respond publicly to his adoptive daughter's accusation if he isn't willing to or capable of responding in a satisfactory manner? I understand that he can't possibly address every single angle and point which might spring into a person's mind, but the point I'm having a hard time comprehending is that his…

Hey Greene, don't let the Bastards get you down. You touched a nerve, which is much more than most of these drab, milquetoast dullards can say. Cheers!

Oh mama, I unloaded a good two decades of pent up personal angst and hysteria on that pitiful thread. I feel ten pounds lighter and 3 inches taller! Dum de dum de dum…

Self delusion and unbridled arrogance colliding in a supernova clusterfuck of self referential meta irony? No, I'm sure that nobody can ever ruin that.

Not in any way compatible, or not ordinarily compatible?

No, I'm not equating anything. I'm merely citing a scenario which has been featured in more than one of his films. There are at least 4 films that very specifically focus on a much older man seducing teenage girls or very young women who are in a position of subordination to the man. Juliette Lewis played a very young…

Exactly. There's a very good reason that the expression is "dirty" old man, and not admirable, exemplary, superlative old man. There's something very undesirable, socially, about the impulse of an older man to seduce younger women and girls, regardless of how natural or human is that impulse. Murder and rape are…

See, your's is the sort of glib sarcasm that belies how mistaken many people are about the precise point on which I'm focusing my criticism of Woody's defense, and it is a defense and not just an explanation. It isn't his recent open letter, itself, which is most disturbing, but rather how it reinforces my original…

Dis here is 'Merica, pardner.

But gut reaction conjecture is the hallmark of all worthwhile TV detectives. Even the crappy ones.

Well, now you've got me reconsidering my reluctance to invite you to join my kickball team.

But Woody is an unapologetic seducer of teenage girls. He has stated that society has no right to pronounce judgment on the love shared between an older man and a girl. In Manhattan Muriel's character was 17 while Woody's was 40 something, which is at the very least severely pushing the envelope of societal norms. And…

Yes, that is a valid point. Like I said, never having endured an acrimonious divorce or been accused of child molestation I really don't know what constitutes a reasonable response.

At what point in their relationship was she of age - when they both finally admitted to it or when he first made overtures and seduced her? Do we know how early their relationship first began? I'm not saying I know these things, but it doesn't look too Kosher for him.

All Jews are pervs. I know this for a fact. I watch Bill Maher.

Your explanation is very logical and rational except for the fact that this isn't a case of someone having been accused of being a bank robber or of being a compulsive panty thief. The charge of child molestation is one hundred fold more offensive and outrageous, so much so as to be virtually beyond belief that he…

But even if he was convinced at the time that Mia was a raving Coo Coo, that the accusation was utterly preposterous, it's such a profoundly offensive charge that I can't imagine anyone simply dismissing it as the rantings of a scorned vitriolic succubus. There probably isn't a more heinous, more vile crime against…

Ignore a child's accusation that you molested her? Ignore it?! Think about that for a minute. Would you just ignore a child's accusation of molestation? Really? That doesn't sound like a normal, rational response to such a potentially devastating and unconscionable violation, does it?

Interesting. So to extrapolate your argument out to a scale which corresponds to what is today understood to be "society," the seemingly casual, innocuous practice of gossip is actually a primitive Darwinian survival tactic, practiced more so by the less dominant members of society. While the Dominant, Masterful,…