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What Amber Heard’s Make-up Palette Says About the Legal System. (Plus: Roe v Wade)

The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism

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Do We Support Victims of Domestic Violence?

A lot of these cases also get hung up on what i think of as the perfect victim myth. How likeable an accuser or a victim is in any given domestic violence case will go a long way in whether she's believed, be by millions of people, by her friends or by a jury. One thing that i say to my students a lot is that we all support survivors up until we know the perpetrator. That's the moment when people start to switch side.

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