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How the Manipulative Victim Trope Shaped the Depp-Heard Trial
FromThe Take
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Length:
13 minutes
Released:
Jul 28, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
Stories about women being deceptive or manipulative have been embedded in our culture for millennia, dating all the way back to Adam and Eve. Here’s our take on how narratives around the Depp-Heard trial draw on the tropes of the perfect victim and the devious manipulative woman, and how both of these fictional ideas fuel dangerous societal misogyny.
Released:
Jul 28, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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