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cinnabonbon

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1. This part struck me in particular:
Tue Feb 11, 2014, 08:32 AM
Feb 2014

But, you might ask, isn’t the mudslinging going both ways? Shouldn’t the same standard be held to those attacking Woody Allen? Questions like that, while perhaps well-meaning, assume a symmetry in this debate that simply is not there. Woody Allen is in a position of power to which his accuser will never have access, and critiques of his character move against the grain of enormous cultural pressure, whereas the judgments made on Dylan Farrow’s language, memory, and self are supported by a larger social framework that shames and silences survivors of sexual abuse and assault. To put it more simply, we live in a culture whose social (not to mention legal) structures make dismissing a survivor incredibly easy, and confronting a predator nearly impossible.

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