As much as I generally dislike this film (even as a one-time BIG Woody Allen film, who still has a lot of regard for his 70s/80s/90s output, for the most part), I think you're stretching the 'subtext' here. No-one else would have made such an inference, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't intended.
Mia Farrow is a lot of things, but she isn't uneducated, she isn't a dummy and she isn't coarse. She's a woman of privilege, and on the surface presents quite a refined and delicate persona.
I do find this film classist (implying that the working-class are innately stupid) and demeaning to sex-workers, which is why it's one of my least favourite of Allen's films, despite an intriguing 'nature versus nurture' premise and a few promising characters, but there's NOTHING here to suggest an attack on Mia Farrow. If anything, the classy but cold/uptight character played by Helena Bonham-Carter is a closer fit for Mia.
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