You deserve what you get: the Depp-Heard trial was the voice in every victim’s ear | jacquelinemaley
“Tonight’s whinging b–tch will be quickly forgotten once your powerful doco hits. The whole world is sick of this pathetic bullshit,” Jarratt texted to his mate. Jarratt was referring to a TV special McLachlan did to defend his name against allegations of sexual harassment and abuse made against him in an investigation by the ABC and Nine newspapers.
Women walk through the world knowing, vaguely, about what Donald Trump called “locker-room talk”. But because we’re not present in the locker room, this mysterious talk is a grey area that could lie anywhere on a spectrum. It’s confronting to realise just how far that spectrum extends, to know that this, actually, is what qualifies as japery among some men; this is how they chat when their guard is down, and they can be what Hollywood types might call their “authentic selves”.
It also heard that his ex-wife had hit him too, had taunted him while he was drug-addled and low, and had not given to charity the entirety of her divorce settlement, as she had pledged she would. As the #metoo movement picked up pace a few years ago, we heard again and again that it was a witch-hunt; vigilante justice with the absolute wrong sort of person wielding the pitchfork – the emotional, angry woman. We heard that it would destroy the reputations of the men named as perpetrators and harassers.
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