A change of mind

03 Friday Jun 2022

Posted by in emotional gaslighting

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I had thought I was going to make this a blog about emotional gaslighting. Instead I am starting a new blog, attached to my professional site, that will be a project in listening. Social media gives a platform to anyone who wants one, so the goal for my blog is to traverse the world of social media, and to share what others are saying.

What inspired the blog is the way that voices in the media, right now, many who happen to be academics, are dismissing the many individuals who support Johnny Depp, by ascribing reasoning for Depp support that is simply not true of many Depp supporters. There are copious amounts of individuals who are clear about the reasons they support Depp. Many are survivors of domestic violence who share their own stories of abuse and detail the similarities between the behavior of their abuser and Heard’s behavior in the audio recordings. Yet, even though individuals who support Depp are actually giving valid reasons for their support, academics and other social commentators explain away the support by using the language of their own expertise to insist that it is all due to fanaticism, systematic misogyny, or an inability to accept that a victim might look different than oneself. And this is a horrendous misuse of their authority as experts in their field.

The link to the blog is https://reneerushing.wordpress.com/blog/

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