1.
The one thing we can be 100% sure of — however “confident” our opinions — we don’t know what happened.
Only the main actors in the Farrow/Allen Soap Opera, thrown as they were onto the tabloid pages, will ever know.
Well, yes, and of course the judges and jury of the Internet Supreme Court of Gossip — who have blinders to block contradictory information which might keep them from virtue-signaling their self-righteous indignation on social media.
Which feels oh-so gooood, doesn’t it?!
2.
We come at stories based on our experiences.
I certainly understand many women’s perspective being colored by personal experiences like this, and, well, unfortunately many men’s behavior in general.
Full disclosure: I am one of those men who was once very falsely accused so I also have a different perspective.
3.
Anyone who has slipped on any of the mass media salivation around the Mia Farrow/Woody Allen fiasco, knows it is chock full of (let’s-just-say) conjectures around their not-so-standard relationship paradigms.
As someone who has lived his life in non-standard relationships — bisexual/queer, open/polyamorous, etc — I know just how viciously judgmental those who do abide by the strict married / monogamous / heterosexual paradigms can be.
4.
A little sample of the surrealism around this particular soap opera. Farrow married Sinatra at 21 (he was 50), soon after had an affair Andre Previn, devastating his wife Dory, who wrote the song “With Daddy in the Attic” in 1970.
