Woody Allen Speaks Out

[CTyankee]

331. unpack further

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In your first paragraph you make a reference I 've not seen before. Where is this Panel's statement on the judge found in the material on this case?

Of and by itself, Woody having sex with a 19 or 20 year old is not the question and the issue of one year is trivial. And my point about the relationship of the two was not that they were or were not technically that she was his official "stepdaughter." However, it was in the context of his relationship with the girl's mother at the time and the fact that she was living with her mother. I've already drawn that distinction e.g, he did not meet Soon Yi on a movie set, at a party, etc. What is troubling is that he started the affair while acting as her mother's love/sex partner. Context is everything here. If she had been a 19/20 year old meeting and developing a sexual relationship OUTSIDE of the family, there would be no controversy, except eyebrows would be raised about the age difference.

We wouldn't be having this discussion if it were all about an older man liking "to be around" younger women who are legal age. As for the age difference between Mia and Sinatra, please, again, use CONTEXT. Sinatra was never accused of molesting a child, with the grown child herself making the accusation.

The medical evidence was not forthcoming because Dylan was freaked out by having the medical exam that would be necessary. I think Mia felt that traumatizing her daughter further would not be in the best interest of the child, while it would, of course, damage the case against Woody. If the scenario of Mia the Sociopath were played out here I doubt that she would have been stopped by concerns for the child. Since that is key, the criminal investigation had to be curtailed.

We don't know too much about Woody's sex life as a much younger man and we can only speculate as to why he has never been accused again as an old man. For one thing, he has a younger sex partner that he is still married to. At 78, we can only speculate about other reasons, including sexual dysfunction, such as ED, that can and does happen to many men. But again, this is speculation so I think we should just keep it at that and agree that is a question we can't know the answer to.