Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Woody Allen: What do feminists want?



So. What are the feminists' demands, Woody Allen-wise? I was just reading an attack on him and the comments on a feminist website.

Do they want Soon-yi to divorce Woody or Woody to divorce Soon-yi, or can they stay married? Should Woody put his minor daughter up for adoption? Should he disown and have no further contact with them because the feminists have declared him to be "creepy"? Calling someone "creepy" is pretty much an admission that you have nothing on them. You don't need to know anything. All you need is a vague feeling.

Again, they knew nothing. They thought he and Mia Farrow were married, that Soon-yi was either his stepdaughter, his adopted daughter or both, or they thought she and Dylan Farrow were the same person.

Some attacked him because his movies usually don't do very well. Does feminism demand only high-profit movies now?

I know that's not much of a point.

I'm no stranger to seething hatred. I hate lots of people. If it's for ideological reasons, I try to have a coherent reason.

In the case of Woody Allen, I tend to be unhappy with him because his movies are all-white and when he does put non-white characters in them, like the prostitute in Deconstructing Harry, it's usually racist or otherwise objectionable. When asked about it, he stupidly said that he would never cast an actor based on race and that's why he only uses white actors unless the script he wrote calls for it.

His wife, his son/brother-in-law and one of his daughters are East Asian, for crying out loud. And you look at Fading Gigolo, the movie he acted in but didn't write or direct---it was so refreshing to see him among Black people, sitting in his living room with his African-American wife and stepchildren.

I hate John Landis because he murdered three people. Not much can be done about that now. I hated Dustin Diamond because he was so obnoxious. Jerry Lewis never said anything funny and was one of those guys who abused his children and bragged about it because he thought it showed what a good father he was. I hated Joan Rivers because she was an extremely violent racist rasping in her ugly voice about murdering Palestinians. Woody Allen is no picnic in that regard. He can't understand why Palestinians don't like being tortured, murdered and ethnically cleansed. Don't they know Jews are God's Chosen People?

There are a number of people I should hate and don't. I watched Our Man in Havana last night and liked Burl Ives okay in spite of his cooperation with the House UnAmerican Activities Committee. To hell with that guy.

There was Arthur Miller, that piece of crap who thought he was too good to be married to Marilyn Monroe. He thought he was a genius because, in HIS play, the Salem Witch Trials were BAD.

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