Mainstream Media's Hypocrisy: Part One

It’s safe to say writing about anyone involved with the Woody Allen and Mia Farrow saga has become one of the topics that people are both intrigued and annoyed with. I myself fall on both sides of this scale for many different reasons. I’m intrigued with those involved with this story as well as the public fascination in the story, both then and now. I’m also annoyed with this story, how so many have jumped to many different conclusions, and ignoring the real story, the real miscarriage of justice that happened here. Not for Dylan Farrow like many might think (I do STRONGLY believe Dylan Farrow’s memories of Woody Allen assaulting her are very real for her), but rather for many of her siblings; Moses Farrow, Soon Yi Previn, Lark Previn, Tam Farrow, and Thaddeus Farrow.

Since the airing of “Allen v Farrow” and writing my own initial thoughts about this, I have learned a great deal more about this family than the HBO series failed to share in the four hours the series had to work with. Honestly, it’s been enough to give me nightmares, and make me realize what a complete fool I am for having written that first piece without doing my own research. I have also written a piece addressing those issues and why homework is so important. What I want to talk about here is why with two victims coming forward, why do the mainstream media runs to the side of Mia Farrow?

Both Moses Farrow and Soon Yi Previn have come forward with allegations of abuse at the hands of their adoptive mother Mia Farrow. Moses claiming Mia stripped him naked and forced him to stand in the corner of a room to be gawked at by other siblings as punishment for cutting off the belt loops of his pants. Soon Yi has claimed she was called “moronic” by Mia, was slapped, and had a porcelain center piece thrown at her by Mia. These are just a few examples by two children who lived in the home. The common thread by both Moses Farrow and Soon Yi Previn were Mia Farrow’s mood swings, volatile histrionic behavior, gas lighting and brainwashing in the household during the years she spent “raising” her numerous adopted children.

The question I have now is: why isn’t anyone (like HBO) willing to listen to Moses and Soon Yi the way Dylan Farrow is being listened to? Why not hear them out? Three of the other children mistreated by Mia are dead, Moses and Soon Yi are alive, can tell their stories of something truly horrific, yet the few times they have, no one cared? If the MeToo movement is about “believing all victims”, why are these adult children of Mia’s being ignored, judged, or seeing them as people not to be believed?

Let’s start with Soon Yi Previn.

Much of what has been said about Soon Yi Previn have been vicious criticisms and attacks on her characters, as well as the butt of many incest jokes. Many over the years have said she is Woody Allen’s puppet, she doesn’t understand English very well and therefore can’t think for herself despite having attended and graduated college. In the interview she gave to New York Magazine, Soon Yi in no way comes off as a puppet. She is articulate, has a good sense of humor, and is strong and assertive about who she is and the validity of her marriage and relationship to Woody Allen, a marriage that is still to this day an ongoing one. Of course I haven’t met Soon Yi so I can’t know anything about her in a firsthand capacity. From this interview, and small pieces she has given her and there over the years, some videos on Youtube from “Wild Man Blues” from the late 90s, she comes off as a strong and intelligent woman who took control of her life and got out from under the control of her abusive mother, if Mia did really abuse her and the other kids.

End of Part One