What's your favorite Woody Allen movie?

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400. A "desire to be oppressed"? Sure, bud. Go into the LGBT group here and repeat that. I'm sure you

are a member already, since you're gay and all.

Before you answer, you should know: when I was seven years old, Woody Allen took me by the hand and led me into a dim, closet-like attic on the second floor of our house. He told me to lay on my stomach and play with my brother’s electric train set. Then he sexually assaulted me.

This post is about a woman talking about her sexual abuse when she was a child. That is the child rape I am talking about. You come into a thread about the guy and say "It's even creepier how there are always people rushing to condemn innocent people." making it clear you 1) consider him innocent and 2) don't give the victim the same reasonable doubt you give the old white guy.

And when people comment further on his character, you comment with: Merely pointed out that homophobes use the same logic to condemn consenting adults.

So here we were, criticizing the molestation she talked about in the OP, when you decided the criticism pointed towards him was just like unwarranted hatred that gay people face. ...Because a white, rich old man who is accused of sexually assaulting a kid is so much like how people treat an oppressed population. So while you weren't particularly clear, you nevertheless made the connection.

The thing is, comparing how people respond to him because of this child molestation case to homophobia has the unpleasant undertone of linking child molestation with gay men. I'm sure you're familiar with that horrible stereotype. One of the best-publicized anti-gay campaigns of the late twentieth century, Anita Bryant's "Save Our Children" crusade during the early 1980s, capitalized on the stereotype of gay men as child molesters.

If you are gay I am sure you wouldn't perpetrate such a harmful stereotype.