A Stanford law professor attacked Johnny Depp’s lawyer Camille Vasquez in a series of scathing tweets accusing her of “sucking up to male power.”
Michele Dauber, an Amber Heard supporter, blasted Vasquez one day after a Virginia jury awarded Depp $10.35 million in his defamation claim against his ex-wife.
“Of all the women who suck up to male power, women lawyers are the absolute worst of the bunch,” she tweeted June 2 under a photo of Vasquez giving a press conference after the team’s victory.
“Desperate to prove they are ‘real lawyers’ and understanding that being a woman undermines their identity as lawyers, they throw women under the bus as hard and fast as they can,” Dauber continued.
Many of her posts include the hashtag #IStandWithAmberHeard.
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The law professor also wrote in the thread that “some women have learned to seek male approval in the hopes they won’t be raped or abused or humiliated.”
Daube included a series photos of female lawyers with men who’ve been accused or convicted of sex crimes and called them “skirts.” In one snap of Harvey Weinstein with his attorney, Donna Rotunno, she wrote “Harvey Weinstein’s skirt.”
The backslash to Dauber’s posts criticizing Vasquez was swift. “Good grief Stanford is in trouble. What an outlook on life,” wrote one Twitter user.
An account titled Fair Lilith asked, “Please do explain to me how being a woman undermines my identity as a lawyer?”
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