Julie Bindel: I've Seen the Amber Heard Story Before
I was in London over the weekend. It was the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee—the celebration of Her Majesty’s 70 years on the throne, the longest of any British monarch ever. And yet it seemed that all anyone wanted to talk about was Johnny Depp and Amber Heard…
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2 years ago · 81 likes · 122 comments · Julie Bindel
If you wish to understand Spousal Abuse, please read “The Battered Woman Syndrome” by Dr. Lenore Walker published 1980.
I called her, way back then, and she was kind enough to give me 10 or so minutes at no charge to help me understand how encompassing the words Spousal Abuse are.
I then added it -spousal abuse- as a separate cause of action seeking monetary damages in every divorce action in which I represented, as a lawyer, the wife.
My biggest problem was trying to make the wife understand she was abused. Abuse is just not physical.
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“The masses are asses.” Reading Twitter, TikTok are simple proof of that quote. Was it attributed to John Locke? Alexander Hamilton? Karl Marx? I tend to like this piece of potential history: The quote is a mere echo of a famous yiddish folk saying “der oylem iz a goylem”
The Golem, is a brutish being incapable of independent thought.
And keyed to the will of its master.
The Courts, the law, our norms, culture, the traditional media twitter and tik tok remain the Goylem of our times.
I’m as shocked at the comments on Bari’s page as I was by the one sided reaction to the testimony on YouTube etc. People really believe she made all that stuff up? I guess so. I don’t. And the idea that his career has suffered? Everything that came out at the trial is treated as Johnny the swashbuckling bad boy. His career will now take off.
The jury? Meet OJ Simpson and John Hinckley, both walking the streets.