Wow check out Woody's hilarious interview where he jokes about his ex-wife's sexual assault!

[redqueen]

I guess people would defend it as 'just a joke' or say that 'times were different then'.

I seriously couldn't care less what the rationalization is, this guy is a piece of shit.

[seabeyond]

1. i saw that. a piece of shit. there was another video....

i am guessing with manhattan, the girl saying she need to do homework and telling the boys... i am dating someone that does homework, and the look the men gave. just eeew.

all of them

whatever

creeps

and then the man interviewing, guess she cant take a joke.

talk about fuckin privilege and a lack of understanding cause they do not experience it.

ya... that one bothered me. just the arrogance of the right to talk like this.

guess i do not have that sense of humor either.

[BainsBane]

3. That movie is thought to be based on his relationship with Melkin

who was 17 when he started up with her. Someone pointed out that all of his girlfriends have not only been young but looked much younger than their age.

[seabeyond]

5. i read that post. it was point on. these people that fool themselves just to hero worship

this creep. beyond amazing.

[BainsBane]

2. What a piece of garbage

Unreal.

[Squinch]

4. Oh my god. This man is a piece of shit. (I know you said it, but there is no more accurate

comparison for him.)

[BainsBane]

6. Hey, "it's just a joke"

You must have no sense of humor if you don't think rape and child abuse are funny.

[Squinch]

7. Oh my god! I still can't.... And Dick Cavett laughed at it! And the audience thought it was just

great.

I know we still have a lot to do, but we've come a very long way.

I don't think I would have survived if that shit was going on all around me while I was a thinking adult. It's so barbaric. And it makes me so sad for the things our mothers and grandmothers must have had to live through.

[zazen]

8. and the idea of his being seriously sexually mocked by a woman was inconceivable to him

Imagine him saying that to Sarah Silverman or Tina Fey. I mean, maybe his joke about his ex-wife not "moving" during sex had to do with his being an awful, flaccid, boring, insensitive lover. A feminist-minded comedian (including Colbert) could annihilate him in one of 50 ways after that comment. He could never get away with that crap today.

[gaspee]

9. This entire episode

Confirms my feelings about rape culture, misogyny and people in general.

Makes me want to become a hermit.

No wonder adults don't disclose what happened to them as children.

How come the young boys molested by priests and Sandusky aren't treated as lying little manipulators?

I'm just disgusted by the entire response to her.

And painting Mia as "the woman scorned" - sick fucking society.

How about if you don't believe her, you show a little empathy and keep your fucking yap shut instead of going on and on about innocent until proven guilty. No shit Sherlock - but how about the same consideration for the fucking victim.

Huh - I have a few anger issues, LOL

[cinnabonbon]

10. It's striking when you go back and actually

look at what he's saying, isn't it?

Sad that so many people hero-worship him.

[JustAnotherGen]

11. That's sick

[seaglass]

12. He's a creep. He married this wife when she was 16 and he was 19. That was in 1954.

Was a 16 yo then so very different from a 16 yo now? I remember when my kids and their friends were 16, I remember when I was 16. I think that's gross and obviously it was a mistake since they divorced a short while later.

I adored Dick Cavett and am very disappointed he laughed about this.

"Times were different then" is a true statement and I get it superficially, but it doesn't change the effect of words and actions for me. I do not worship the founding fathers for to me they were flawed for not recognizing the equal rights of non-white male humans. I expect more of people, no matter what the time.

[wryter2000]

13. I tried to watch a few of his movies

They all seemed to me one big whine. "Why won't you have sex with meeeeeeee?"

What an utterly loathsome individual. And presumption of innocence doesn't exist outside of a courtroom.

[seabeyond]

15. i walked out on one movie. what? 12ish? went to annie hall with a friend

such the rave. sat for 20 minutes or so and the whine and bore. i asked friend if she wanted to leave and we left. i have never walked out of one before or since.

some love the movie. maybe i did not give it time. but if after 20 minutes or so there is nuthin... then why waste the time. that was the only movie of his i tried to watch.

[BainsBane]

14. More people should see this.

[BainsBane]

16. Crucial thread with court record

where judge gives his assessment of the case. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024461709
HuffPo links to the actual ruling from family court. Not to be missed.

[cinnabonbon]

17. Thank you so much for the link.

It cleared a LOT of things up.

[CTyankee]

18. what this tells me is that Woody STILL thinks it is the 1970s (whenever he did this interview) in

the way the American public views sexual assault. He is reliving his "glory days" when such things were tolerated and laughed about and he got away with it.

This clip tells me a lot. Woody is an old man, reliving a past because he cannot get "right" with the present. I see men in their 70s and 80s who do this, as a senior citizen myself, and I wonder how they can be so deaf and blind...