Alec Baldwin Accuses Dylan Farrow of Lying, Compares Her to Book Character Raped by Her Father

http://www.vulture.com/2018/01/alec-baldwin-says-dylan-farrow-is-using-shame-for-sympathy.html

If you haven’t read To Kill a Mockingbird in a while, Mayella Ewell is eventually exposed as a liar in the trial of Tom Robinson, and it turns out that rather than being raped by him, Tom actually rebuffed the advances Mayella made at him. This made her angry, so she accused him of rape out of vengeance. A crucial aspect of Mayella’s character that Baldwin might have forgotten, however, is that after the death of her mom, a teenage Mayella is made to fill the role of wife and is roped into an incestuous relationship with her abusive, alcoholic father. He rapes and beats her, and she keeps home and takes care of the children. So, in summary, Alec Baldwin tried to make a point about how Dylan Farrow wasn’t sexually abused by her father by comparing her to a literary character … that was continuously sexually abused by her father. And the resolution of Tom’s trial hinged on that reveal. So, that is awkward.