i believe Dylan Farrow

Even before I read Woody Allen's disingenuous, ex-wife-blaming obfuscation-posing-as-defense, I believed Dylan Farrow.

Now? Well, let's just say that what he offers forth as his defense speaks to his character. Why the New York Times would publish this - giving it a more prominent position than Dylan Farrow's side of the story - speaks highly to how much power he has in this situation and how he's not afraid to use it. Even if, as it provably does, it continues to harm the daughter he claims to love. Even if it means humiliating his son. To Woody Allen, any pain caused to Dylan and Ronan is a small price to pay if it means he gets to hurt Mia Farrow in the process. Even two decades after their breakup, he can't resist the urge to paint her as crazy, slutty, a bad mother.

Even if I were to accept Allen at his word, nearly everything he has to say in his defense offers ample evidence that he's a shitty parent and a despicable human being who has no qualms - then or now - about using his children to lash out at his ex. Interestingly, that's exactly why he says we shouldn't believe Mia Farrow's story. By his own token, I guess we shouldn't believe him, either.

So I won't. Anyway, it's not Mia's story that's the issue here. It's Dylan's. It's always been Dylan's. The fact that Woody seems incapable of perceiving that tells me everything I need to know about him.

If this is the best Woody Allen can come up with as his rebuttal, I see absolutely no reason not to believe Dylan Farrow, and a whole lot of reasons why I should.