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[quote=Anonymous]One thing I cannot shake is how much the vitriol against Lively resembles the online comments about Amber Heard during the lead up to and during the trial.

Heard was also a deeply imperfect victim with a shake case -- she lost, if you recall. But she was also pretty clearly a victim of abuse, something that got very lost in the mix.

Lively's situation is very, very different -- she wasn't married to Baldoni and she was on much more equal footing to him professionally and arguably more powerful due to her husband's wealth/status. I don't think Lively was a victim of abuse the same way I think Heard was.

But I do think Lively is being treated very similarly by the online mob, and that Baldoni seems to be capitalizing on that dynamic. And that's why I find myself sometimes sticking up for Lively in this thread, especially regarding her retaliation case against Baldoni, which I think has legs. Not because I think she's great or don't think she hasn't engaged in her own bad behavior here. But because I saw with Heard how the online pile on buried her and the much more nuanced truth got lost under the chorus of "She's a liar" and "She's crazy," which do in fact happen to be the two most popular ways to discredit a woman (well that and "she's ugly" or "she's old" but bonus -- Lively gets that too).

I'm not a Blake Lively fan and I certainly don't work for her PR team. But I'm not ready to call her a liar just because the lawyer and the PR team for the guy she's suing, really, really want me to.[/quote]

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