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soft boys with too many feelings
and why we should supposedly forgive them.
i. he hurt people because he is tortured
During the defamation trial Johnny Depp brought against his ex-wife Amber Heard, Depp sat in court . “People do art to help with stress it’s good for helping with depression, anxiety and much more,” a fan wrote on a video of Depp coloring in court. “Good for Johnny.” Another comment extrapolates that this is his response to the intersection of trauma and ADHD: “I can wholeheartedly tell you he is coping. This is a trauma response. (…) I pray for his mental health recovery.” Much sympathetic discourse has also been said about Depp’s struggles with addiction and alcoholism — while Heard’s mental health struggles have been widely used to discredit her.
When Kevin Spacey was accused of grooming actor Anthony Rapp, he posted a note on Twitter coming out as gay, conflating sexual violence with sexual orientation. Amidst growing accusations of and , Spacey : “I have loved and had romantic encounters with men throughout my life, and I choose now to live as a gay man. I want to deal with this honestly and openly and that starts with examining my own behavior.” It didn’t seem to occur to Spacey that his main victim, Rapp, is also a gay man — and that using…