I’m backing Heard in this dispute because she’s a survivor. But go easy on the bruises-are-conclusive-proof idea. Next time some husband has one cut on his face and the wife he repeatedly punched in the stomach doesn’t have any visible signs of injury the MRAs will be throwing it back in our faces.

There’s a good reason for that: men are more often actually guilty of dv than women.

You may be right, but this isn’t helping to raise consciousness of domestic violence as a Manichaean problem. That may sound cynical, but the pendulum has swung so far in favor of abusers that we can’t have any clouding of the moral issue.

This. I want justice for Heard but the more that comes out the more complicated this story becomes, clouding the issue of domestic violence in a way that doesn’t help survivors or advance the cause.

An overreaction from police? Which is it: do we want police to take survivors’ allegations seriously or not? Do we want domestic abusers charged and brought to justice or only sometimes?

I’m glad Heard’s ex is coming to her defense, but I’m uneasy with the claim that her allegation was “oversensationlized.” This makes it seem like survivors’ accusation of domestic violence sometimes shouldn’t be taken seriously by authorities and abusers shouldn’t always be charged.

This Heard revelation is problematical. Not because it negates Heard’s accusations of abuse by Depp — those are unaffected. But:

From a purely technical perspective, and solely as an academic matter, do those texts actually mention abuse?

Now we’re pissing on Jane Effin Goodall?

I get the hatred of Uber. Really, I do. And you fought the good fight valiantly.

It’s complicated. Like a good Christian, we love the worker, but hate the work. We can’t stand the commodification of women’s bodies but we want to empower individual agency. We’ve abandoned sex-negative feminism but we can’t seem to abandon the nagging suspicion that not all consensual adult sex is OK. Women can…

Irony, thy name is Dick Morris. The more privileged, the more whiny.

Lemme guess: an aggrieved white man disgruntled about being slightly less privileged than he used to be.

I stand with survivors but this reporting just gives ammunition to those who would perpetuate dangerous sexual stereotypes about POC. With all the white victimizers out there, why is Jezebel obsessed with this story (not to mention Cosby)?

I’m glad there’s movement on getting him extradited, but why did it have to happen only after a right-wing government took power?

Actually, Youtube. Which pays.

OK, this is going to be complicated and difficult to understand for all the internet-hater haters, so try real hard:

Except that in the 37 years of children visiting that same gorilla enclosure, with the same rails, bushes and twisting path, no other child has ever fallen in.

So the woman suing the zoo for her own negligence so that she can re-direct blame and profit from it to boot is the victim here?

Or, they like animals but they LOVE assigning blame where it properly belongs. See Justice.