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Article: A feminist's love/hate relationship.(Deconstructing Woody: A Critical Symposium on Woody Allen's 'Deconstructing Harry')
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- Cineaste
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- June 22, 1998
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If the editors of this critical symposium were looking for a woman to admit, unequivocally, to feeling disgust, contempt, even nausea, at the way Woody Allen has conducted his private life (and one needn't be a compulsive reader of tabloids or a watcher of the El Network to claim expertise in the matter), they lucked out with me. That's not because I'm one of those militant, man-hating feminists the media so love to caricature. No, my reasons for loathing the man, while certainly visceral, are far more personal. When my daughter was eight years old, I began living with a man twelve years my junior and as many years her senior. The relationship lasted many years, as I got ...