I'm going to put the further discussion of the Jonathan Majors incident here as I don't wan tot muddy up the MCU thread....but Majors released text messages from his girlfriend from after his arrest....and I think he and his lawyer think this exonerates him....but honestly, it leaves me thinking even more that she's the victim. There's SO many telling parts of this exchange that are very much what a Victim who goes back to her abuser says:
Here's the texts (all are her to him):
Text 1: “Please let me know you’re okay when you get this. They assured me that you won’t be charged.
They said they had to arrest you as protocol when they saw the injuries on me and they knew we had a fight. I’m so angry that they did. And I’m sorry you’re in this position. Will make sure nothing happens about this.
I told them it was my fault for trying to grab your phone. I only just got out of hospital. Just call me when you’re out.”
Text 2: “
I love you”
Text 3: “They just called again to check on me and I reiterated how this was not an attack and they do not have my blessing on any charges being placed. I read the paper they gave me about strangulation and I said point blank this did not occur and should be removed immediately. The judge is definitely going to be told this. She ensured this to me. I know you have the best team and there’s nothing to worry about I just want you to know that I’m doing all I can my end. I also said to tell the judge to know that the origin of the call was to do with me collapsing and passing out and your worry as my partner due to our communication prior. Out of care. She promised all will be relayed.”
The thing that stands out to me most in all this? The bolded bit where she basically said "I should not have grabbed your phone, this is my fault"....
As a guy, wanna know what should happen if a woman (relationship with me or not) grabs your phone from you?
Nothing. Certainly not violence of any kind. My gods.
Her saying that bit really couches the rest of the texts into a different light with her repeatedly seeking to make sure he knows she's going to take whatever blame needs to be taken, and repeat how she loves him...and she goes on an on. She's trying to hang onto the guy she loves even if he's abusive (my mom did this with her abusive relationship when I was younger....jeezus she told me out loud once how she didn't want to report him for assaulting her because she worried what he'd be treated like in jail...he had sliced her forearm with a kitchen knife...he was never charged because she never reported it.), and an internal part of her is trying to mentally calm him down ahead of time so this whole thing doesn't splash out at her in any future retaliation.
Maybe people will believe this, but I don't think her texts saying "I ended up in the hospital from a fight with my boyfriend becuase I took his phone and I should not have" is the Defence Majors and his lawyer thinks it is....holy hell....she's in a cycle of abuse and doesn't know it....or maybe she does.
EDIT to add: His lawyer (who is apparently from the same Wish order as the lawyers form the Paltrow trial) claims that video footage that "exonerates" him exists...bro...if that footage actually DID exist, then why release texts that everyone agrees makes him look even guiltier? I don't think the video footage exists and if it does, it probably makes him look bad, otherwise what benefit is there from piecemeal releasing so-called "exonerating" texts? It makes zero sense. This guys goose is well and truly cooked. And lastly, the rumours of this guy being a sociopath prior to this must be true if he thought that
these texts make him look good...fuck me.
This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 30 March 2023 - 04:33 PM
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