Tom and Tree – Count me in. Throw in the incest factor, and I’m fining it hard to imagine anyone could find this subject suitable for a comic. What was the expected reaction? “Ha, ha, yea, that’s right! Woody Allen ended up marrying his de facto step-daughter who was 35 years younger than him! That’s why he wants to take her to school! To molest her! Hahahahaha!”
Perhaps I should add, since I the comic in the first place, that I have no idea what’s supposed to be funny about this either. Especially because Soon-Yi wasn’t this young. What happened was both inappropriate and really gross, but it wasn’t pedophilia.
Allen would have met her when she was 10 years old, and known her all through her teenage years. He suddenly discovered his true love when she came of age? Possibly, I guess. That’s giving him a lot of credit, though.
Stan, having a sexual interest in children is a whole other thing (see: King of Pop). Woody just likes them inappropriately young, not pre-pubescent. And the fact that he helped raise Soon-Yi from age 10 makes it super creepy even without adding “pedophilia” to the mix.
B.A. – Agreed. It’s an assumption. You’re right in that there’s no way to prove any malfeasance on Allen’s part, but still, going from being not attracted to and parental to suddenly attracted to at the appropriate time seems hard to fathom for me. Maybe I’m just cynical.
I am of the opinion that Woody Allen is not actually attracted to children, but grooms them to become paramours when they get older. Which I think he attempted to do with Dylan.
To go back to Tom’s original point: Whether Allen engaged in horrible, illegal activities, or horrible yet technically legal activities, it doesn’t provide a great vehicle for humor either way.
Almost any subject can be used for humor. The Onion’s post-9-11 issue was one of their best. But if you’re going to use a topic like this for humor, you have to do it in a way that recognizes that you’re dealing with something serious.
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Bratton – some of your warehouse stock is past the sell by date.
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Call me crazy, but I don’t find jokes about pedophilia funny. I’m not easily offended, and I’m not a prude, but this … just no.
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As I was reading the recent posts the streaming music service was playing:
Tillie – Pink & Blue (Single)
Synchronicity IRL. Not sure who Tillie is, no bio and Similar Artists: 0.
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To keep people wondering “what the hell”, I posted in the wrong one. Perils of multiple tabs open.
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Tom – I agree. And this “joke” is not really much of a joke.
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Tom and Tree – Count me in. Throw in the incest factor, and I’m fining it hard to imagine anyone could find this subject suitable for a comic. What was the expected reaction? “Ha, ha, yea, that’s right! Woody Allen ended up marrying his de facto step-daughter who was 35 years younger than him! That’s why he wants to take her to school! To molest her! Hahahahaha!”
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Perhaps I should add, since I the comic in the first place, that I have no idea what’s supposed to be funny about this either. Especially because Soon-Yi wasn’t this young. What happened was both inappropriate and really gross, but it wasn’t pedophilia.
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*since I SUBMTTED…”
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Allen would have met her when she was 10 years old, and known her all through her teenage years. He suddenly discovered his true love when she came of age? Possibly, I guess. That’s giving him a lot of credit, though.
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Stan, having a sexual interest in children is a whole other thing (see: King of Pop). Woody just likes them inappropriately young, not pre-pubescent. And the fact that he helped raise Soon-Yi from age 10 makes it super creepy even without adding “pedophilia” to the mix.
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It isn’t pedophilia. It’s ephebophilia. (The former refers to prebuscent children by definition.)
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B.A. – Agreed. It’s an assumption. You’re right in that there’s no way to prove any malfeasance on Allen’s part, but still, going from being not attracted to and parental to suddenly attracted to at the appropriate time seems hard to fathom for me. Maybe I’m just cynical.
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Even if there were some attraction that doesn’t mean he did anything.
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“there’s no way to prove any malfeasance on Allen’s part”
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It doesn’t matter how objectionable Mr. Allen’s behavior was and/or is: this comic is even worse.
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I am of the opinion that Woody Allen is not actually attracted to children, but grooms them to become paramours when they get older. Which I think he attempted to do with Dylan.
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To go back to Tom’s original point: Whether Allen engaged in horrible, illegal activities, or horrible yet technically legal activities, it doesn’t provide a great vehicle for humor either way.
Almost any subject can be used for humor. The Onion’s post-9-11 issue was one of their best. But if you’re going to use a topic like this for humor, you have to do it in a way that recognizes that you’re dealing with something serious.
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