who's afraid of amber heard? - by rayne fisher-quann
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abuse, aesthetics, and assigning deviance to difficult women
A podcast version of this essay with a linked discussion forum is available to paid subscribers. You can listen here. By now, the defamation trial between Johnny Depp and ex-wife Amber Heard over her allegations of domestic abuse has become virtually inescapable. With terrifying inertia, the trial has become a vicious battleground for a maelstrom of cultural forces: the hatred of women, the fear for men, the obsessive consumption of real-life tragedy, the aftershock of the MeToo movement, the influencer attention economy. The resulting political event is something akin to a cultural coup,…
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