OpEd: 'As we continue to reinforce that narrative, that there’s no room for nuance for assault victims, it’s the abusers who have everything to gain.'
In this op-ed, Teen Vogue politics editor Lexi McMenamin explores how the Johnny Depp Amber Heard verdict doesn't matter after the internet made a spectacle of abuse.
When I was a teenager, I was raped by someone who had stalked me for over a year. After the assault, I really, really did not want to engage either the police or other official channels; I just didn’t want him near me. Since it didn’t seem like I could do anything to keep him away from me, I told friends what he had done to me, both in hopes he wouldn’t repeat it, and so they could help support me. Eventually, it got back to me that he’d felt abused by me. I was surprised.
This anecdote pre-dated 2017, the year the modern #MeToo movement started. So, too, do the events at the core of the national furor around the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp defamation case, happening in Fairfax County, Virginia, likely due at least in part to
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