Bill Maher is ignorant about what abuse victims face, and his recent Cassie commentary makes him look foolish ... so says a prominent forensic psychologist.
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00:00You certainly have seen and heard about Bill Maher's take on this.
00:07Your response?
00:09Well, if I can choose to let someone urinate in my mouth rather than them beating me and
00:16forcing it in my mouth, yeah, I think I would choose the former.
00:19The manipulation tactics that Cassie had to use to keep herself in survival mode are being
00:28completely minimized.
00:30By Bill, who is yet another white man, older white man, mansplaining with no actual understanding
00:38of the cycle of domestic violence and abuse and has never endured it himself.
00:43I think his point was that with the Me Too movement and the fact that people are more
00:50likely to believe accusers now when they come forward, he was saying that, I guess for lack
00:56of a better phrase, this is a safe space.
00:59You can now come forward and let people know what's happening to you.
01:03Oh, it's such a safe space that today we have Mia on trial being completely annihilated by
01:09the defense attorney to the point where she has a dream about R.
01:13Kelly chasing her and Diddy rescues her.
01:16And that is twisted into she somehow enjoyed being raped by Diddy.
01:22It's completely barbaric.
01:25It shows you to an unconscious level that she was unable to differentiate the abuse of his
01:30authority that he even comes into her dreams and takes over.
01:34So no, Bill, Bill, you don't understand at all.
01:37And you look like an a**hole.
01:39I think people need to read science-based articles on coercive control.
01:44I mean, there are so many articles that are coming out of Harvard University that talk
01:48about complex post-traumatic stress disorder and how the accrual of abuse over time leads
01:53a person to not trust their intuition, to feel foggy, to be very confused.
01:59The captivity isn't just physical.
02:01And I think that's what Bill is missing.
02:03The captivity is internal.
02:04It's you no longer trusting your gut, you not finding the words, you not finding your
02:09voice, not trusting your support system and inability to reach out to them because you're
02:15so psychologically manipulated by the abuser.