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Woody Allen is being tried in the court of public opinion but cancel culture has its flaws - USA TODAY

Woody Allen is being tried in the court of public opinion but cancel culture has its flaws - USA TODAY

Woody Allen is being tried in the court of public opinion but cancel culture has its flaws - USA TODAY
Feb 25, 2021 2 mins, 8 secs

Cancel culture is a way for survivors of sexual violence to seek accountability.

Farrow," which investigates Dylan Farrow's allegations she was sexually abused by her adopted father Woody Allen, say they reached out to the director for his input but didn't receive a response.

It came for director Woody Allen, now the subject of HBO’s new docuseries "Allen v.

Farrow," reexamines Dylan Farrow's allegation that her adopted father Woody Allen sexually abused her when she was a child. (Photo: Thomas Samson, AFP/Getty Images).

A spokesperson for Allen said in a statement the HBO series was a “shoddy hit piece” and that Farrow’s allegations are “categorically false.”.

Cancel culture is what happens, experts say, when there is no clear social response to sexual violence.

"Cancel culture in some ways passes the buck of accountability on to the public," said Laura Palumbo, communications director at the National Sexual Violence Resource Center.

For survivors of sexual violence, cancel culture is the equivalent of victims scrawling their assailants names on bathroom walls – it's a way of saying what needs to be said, and especially of warning others. .

"Cancel culture is what happens when women feel they don't have power," said Nicole Bedera, an expert in sexual violence whose research focuses on campus rape.

But they come back so fast," Bedera said.

"I get why people can't believe it because who on earth could believe that of Woody Allen?" Mia Farrow, Dylan's adopted mother, said in the documentary.

Dylan Farrow Farrow alleged when she was 7 years old, and has maintained since, that Allen, her adoptive father Woody Allen molested her in the attic of her mother's Connecticut estate in 1992. (Photo: Evan Agostini, Invision/AP).

there's no way they could commit an act of sexual violence," Bedera said.

Some survivors want their perpetrators to go to prison, others don't

Some want financial consequences, because it costs money to treat trauma and the chronic health conditions that follow an assault

But there are some things almost all survivors want, Bedera said

"They want space from their perpetrator and they want their perpetrators to change their behavior so they cannot do this again easily, and if they're unwilling to change, they want them stripped of power," Bedera said

"It's not working for survivors where we all get to decide individually whether or not we want to do anything about this particular sexual assault, as opposed to saying, 'This is our social response to sexual violence

And we think it's the right way to address this problem,'" Bedera said

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