Sort of a tabloid story but relevant because society still doesn't fully recognize the abuse of children by mothers.

Woody Allen has been accused by his "daughter" Dylan Farrow (actually sired by Frank Sinatra -- Woody was cucked) of molesting her. He later married Soon-Yi, whom he helped raise, when she turned 18.

The allegations against Woody are broadly accepted:

Actors such as Greta Gerwig, Colin Firth, and Mira Sorvino have recently apologized for accepting roles in Allen’s films, while many of his most avid fans have turned against him, everyone from New York Times movie critic A. O. Scott to my media-alert periodontist, who told me on my last visit that he’d never watch another Woody Allen film.

Now Soon-Yi is claiming her mother viciously abused her. She claims Mia treated her white children like little darlings but her adopted children like virtual slaves.

Interview here.

“There was a hierarchy — she didn’t try to hide it, and Fletcher was the star, the golden child,” she says. “Mia always valued intelligence and also looks, blond hair and blue eyes.”

Mia used to write words on my arm, which was humiliating, so I’d always wear long-sleeved shirts. She would also tip me upside down, holding me by my feet, to get the blood to drain to my head. Because she thought — or she read it, God knows where she came up with the notion — that blood going to my head would make me smarter or something.” Farrow also resorted, as Soon-Yi describes it, to “arbitrarily showing her power”: slapping Soon-Yi across the face and spanking her with a hairbrush or calling her “stupid” and “moronic.”

There are several ways of looking at these allegations, as well as those against Woody. They could all be true, they could all be fake, or some of them true, some of them fake.

To be frank, I find the allegations against both Woody Allen and Mia Farrow compelling. But at the end of the day it all comes down to he-said, she-said.