The Waves: What Amber Heard’s Make-up Palette Says About the Legal System. (Plus: Roe v Wade)
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🗓️ 5 May 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of The Waves, we start with a conversation with upcoming Slow Burn: Roe v Wade host, Susan Matthews and Slate senior producer Cheyna Roth about the implications of the recently leaked Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe.
In the main show, we shift focus to gender violence as the Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard trial continues. Cheyna sits down with Dr. Nicole Bedera about what happens when fans try to play detective and how we should actually be talking to victims of violence. Later in the show they talk about Men’s Rights Activists and the broader implications of suing people who accuse someone of assault.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Waves. Slates podcast about gender, feminism, and today two massive court |
| 0:19.7 | cases impacting women. Every episode you get a different feminist to tell you about the |
| 0:24.6 | thing we can't get off our mind. And today you've got me, Shayna Roth. I'm a senior producer |
| 0:29.8 | for Slate and producer of the Waves. We're going to be talking today about the leaked Supreme |
| 0:35.3 | Court opinion that came out on Monday. For that, Susan Matthews, Slate News Director, is |
| 0:39.7 | going to join me to unpack what happened and what it all means. After that, I'll be joined |
| 0:44.4 | by Dr. Nicole Badira, a sociologist to talk about what the Johnny Depp Amber Herd trial is |
| 0:49.3 | telling us about how society views gender violence. Before we get to Dr. Badira, we need |
| 0:55.0 | to talk about what's going on with abortion. On Monday night, Politico released an exclusive |
| 0:59.6 | titled Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights draft opinion shows. The leaked |
| 1:05.2 | initial draft of a majority opinion authored by Justice Samuel Alito shows that the court |
| 1:10.2 | does indeed intend to overturn the landmark case Roe versus Wade. Roe is the case that |
| 1:16.9 | essentially granted a right to an abortion in the United States. This is something that |
| 1:21.7 | we have been expecting. But to see the intentions of the court laid bare in this draft opinion |
| 1:28.1 | that wasn't supposed to be released somehow still feels worse than we were preparing for. |
| 1:35.8 | There's a lot of great coverage on this across the Slate site, including a piece by Dahlia |
| 1:40.2 | Lithwick, The Supreme Court's legitimacy is already lost. And I highly recommend you |
| 1:45.0 | go back and listen to our May 27th, 2021 Waves episode How to Survive in a Post-Roe America. |
| 1:52.4 | To briefly talk through all this right now is Susan Matthews. Susan is currently working |
| 1:57.5 | on the next season of Slowburn, which is all about Roe versus Wade. Hi, Susan, I've missed |
| 2:03.0 | you. Hi, Shayna. I've missed you too. What circumstances to come back in? Of course, of |
| 2:09.0 | course. Yes. So let's start off with just walk us through what is revealed in this leaked |
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