Remember When Being *Proven* Guilty Was A Thing?
There used to be this standard I thought we accepted as a society -- "innocent until proven guilty."

This is surely the standard we each want for ourselves, yet there's been this due process abrogating movement to "believe women."

I believe in due process. I have no special fangirlhood for Woody Allen, and frankly, I have little interest in Hollywood whatsoever.

However, the evidence just isn't there that he was a molester, and his life with a woman who's now got to be about 50 is not in keeping with any obsessive interest in young children.

As Moses Farrow wrote:

To those who have become convinced of my father's guilt, I ask you to consider this: In this time of #MeToo, when so many movie heavyweights have faced dozens of accusations, my father has been accused of wrongdoing only once, by an enraged ex-partner during contentious custody negotiations. During almost 60 years in the public eye, not one other person has come forward to accuse him of even behaving badly on a date, or acting inappropriately in any professional situation, let alone molesting a child. As a trained professional, I know that child molestation is a compulsive sickness and deviation that demands repetition. Dylan was alone with Woody in his apartment countless times over the years without a hint of impropriety, yet some would have you believe that at the age of 56, he suddenly decided to become a child molester in a house full of hostile people ordered to watch him like a hawk.

Yet, from Rhonda Richford in The Hollywood Reporter:

Just days after Scarlett Johansson made headlines for defending Woody Allen in The Hollywood Reporter's latest cover story, the director spoke out about the backlash he's faced recently and said he still believes he should be the poster boy for the #MeToo movement due to his track record of working with actresses.

"I've worked with hundreds of actresses [and] not one of them has ever complained about me, not a single complaint. I've worked with, employed women in the top capacity, in every capacity, for years and we've always paid them exactly the equal of men," he said in an interview with France24. "I've done everything that the #MeToo movement would love to achieve."

His latest film, Rainy Day in New York, is set to open the Deauville Film Festival in France on Friday. Allen will not be attending the premiere, and none of the actors are set to walk the red carpet. While the film has been shelved by Amazon in the U.S., it is being released across Europe.

After the renewed focus on charges by his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, that the director molested her when she was 7, several of the stars from the film, including Timothee Chalamet and Rebecca Hall, expressed regret in working on the film and donated their salaries to anti-abuse charities.