What's really relevant in the Dylan Farrow molestation case

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79. I did not change the subject

The subject is Dylan, not the other children. He is not accused of molesting the other children. There is only one issue that matters: Did Allen molest Dylan? Whether he had visitation of the boys is a side issue. The fact she was terrified of the guy is certainly a sign something was wrong, a clear warning sign. If Mia was such a horrendous parent, as the Woody Allen apologists claim, why was she given custody instead of Allen? Clearly this non-stop effort to discredit Dylan by attacking Farrow is a sad exercise in defection. Child abuse happens frequently. It is a horrendous thing. However much you want to pretend children and women commonly lie to implicate men, the fact is that happens rarely.

The fact the Allen defenders constitute to act like this is 1992 rather than 2014 and continually ignore Dylan's statement this week shows me just how little regard they have for the word and well being of rape survivors. At the very least, Allen is a dirty old man who preys on young girls, after watching them grow up from a young age. His willingness to violate boundaries in Mia's household with Soon Yi shows a disturbed person. When he began a secret affair with the sister of his children and then went on to marry her, he showed his own lust was more important than the well being of his kids. The man is vermin. That you would go to the mat to defend such a POS boggles the mind. Given his pattern of behavior and jokes about having sex with 12 yr olds, it's hardly a leap to imagine he would molest a child. He fits the profile of a predator to the T. I wouldn't let a creature like him anywhere near children.

The fact is prosecutors fail to bring charges in cases of sexual assault all the time. That is central to rape culture. That you are now appealing to that manifestation of rape culture as some sort of supposed evidence, while completely ignoring the statement from the victim, seems entirely lost on you. There are tens of millions of women in this country who have been raped without anyone being prosecuted for their assaults. That doesn't mean the rapes didn't happen. It means our sexist justice system and misogynist rape culture made sure the rapist never paid for his crimes.

This week has taught me exactly why the rates of rape and child abuse are so appalling high in this country, and why only three percent of rapes result in jail time. Clearly the prospect of one predator being even socially sanctioned. because he does not face jail time, is something too many people here will fight tooth and nail to prevent. This is rape culture in action. Victims of no other crime are treated with such disrespect, hatred, and vengeance. (Here I mean broader patterns of treatment, not how you particularly have responded).

I can't do anything about Allen. All I can do is control who I accept into my own life, and that does not include child rapists or their defenders.