Don’t we accept that Charles Manson groomed his followers? All of whom were legally adults.

The term “Grooming” as it relates to the building of trust and emotional connection for the purpose of future manipulation and subsequent abuse(physical/sexual and or mental) does not strictly require an adult-(legal)child interactions. It’s a power dynamic. Adults absolutely groom other adults. Also, 18 years old is…

her words

The term grooming is increasingly being used to describe the same sort of manipulation to vulnerable people of age. Either way, it’s irrelevant. Semantics are entirely useless in this situation and that high horse doesn’t suit you.

kind of an open secret. unfortunately nothing will come of this. he’s too powerful and the girls who have come out all have been 18+ at the time and don’t have any influence so hollywood will continue to turn a blind eye.

Seriously, if she didn’t lose that last election, no reason to think she could possibly lose the next one. Dems had a strong candidate running against her, all of her Trump supporting garbage and she still won over the middle. Fuck Mainer for voting for her.

Man, I know Jez has gotta do numbers but I was hoping the articles on the trial would be limited.

I’d agree that it’s damning testimony, but it’s the ACLU being damned, not Amber Heard. They wrote it, they pitched it, and they timed the release to coincide with her movie. And her legal team did rewrites to avoid accusing Depp; so that means that the ACLU version *did* accuse him.

I was in a toxic relationship and I never ONCE thought about wanting to kill my ex, let alone rape and burn them. Jeeze!

But frankly if the allegations are incidents like the one about whether he’d beaten her on the plane after taking a load of booze and drugs then his own communications saying he was so drunk/high he blacked out and couldn’t remember anything is a relevant reference to it when he’s claiming he was perfectly sober and…

Just dismiss the troll. Couldn’t even spell the person they have a bizarrely personal hatred for right and they’re still going on about the conspiracy that it wasn’t a dog that crapped on a bed (anyone who’s owned a small dog has dealt with the times where they’ve had surprisingly large crap).

I mean... He’s gonna lose. It’s not criminal court, it’s a defamation trial and his defense is literally “we mutually abused each other” which is true...but it’s still admitting that he abused her and therefore her words in the op-ed were not libel. I personally could not care less about the court of public opinion;…

You say that but the biggest proponent of the “Heard is without faults” argument is... oh it’s Johnny Depp’s own texts and emails from the time of the relationship.

The difference though was that they brought up in cross his own words that contradicted his claims. He’d claim he could perfectly remember events only for his texts to say he’d “blacked out”.

I like how the implication is that she’s attention seeking by having a lawsuit filed *against* her by a man who *definitely* isn’t attention seeking and acting out of spite himself.

So, she has to be “without fault” in order to not be bankrupted, and have her mental competency questioned? While Depp gets to admit to using illicit drugs, writes that he wants to kill Heard, rape her dead body and then burn it and all he’s JUST an asshole? That’s a pretty big double standard here.

This, and I haven’t even really picked a side yet. I have to wait to hear her attorneys present her case but that psychologist testimony made me extremely uncomfortable, providing a possible diagnosis after only 12 hours especially when the person is under stress and knows every behavior going to be scrutinized and…

Depp is an asshole but let's not pretend she's without fault in all of this.

Ironically this is far more likely to cause trouble for him than any of the truly bad things he’s done.

And yet he still has millions of fans who will write awful things because AmBeR is a NuTcAsE. For too many women, liberal and conservative, they will justify abusing another woman if they like a guy enough (even if they will never meet him).