Gonna be real here, the domestic abuse drops aren't as bad as everyone's making out. It's funny that Ron is getting his decade-old skeletons dug up the same way Vic's were in deposition, but they're going to have very little impact on the case, if any.
As far as making Ron look bad, people are overreacting. Sure, it makes me think less of him, but on the level of Nick's overblown 'absolute monster forcing Monica into this' rants? Not one bit. People like to virtue signal how shocked and disgusted they are at domestic abuse but the sad fact is that this kind of thing is bog-common and usually part of a codependently toxic relationship, with abuse and violence going both ways. Relationships like this are dime-a-dozen, and no matter how grotesque it looks in black & white on an affidavit, losing your temper and uttering threats you'll never consider trying to carry out is the masturbating-in-your-parents-house of crimes. Everyone's done it at some point, but only the very brazen or unlucky ever get taken to task for it.
Ron isn't some mastermind predator posing as a feminist to beat and rape women. He's just a small, weak little man with impulse control problems, unfulfilled power fantasies, and a toxic level of disrespect towards women. Because at the end of the day, that's why male feminists do this. They're not psychopaths cynically building access to victims, they're just weak men who want to be the heroes of their own story. They want to protect women, they want to feel the power of women needing their protection ; they want to be the sheepdog. And when those fantasies are challenged ; when women don't want or need or appreciate their protection, they lash out, in a very toxic and masculine way.
The domestic abuse was seven years ago. Nothing about Monica's actions or behaviour suggests she's in any kind of fear of Ron, or being coerced in any way. She's larger than him, stronger than him, has no children with him, has no legal marriage with him, and has hundreds of fans and an open platform to socially eviscerate him if he lays a finger on her. Even her enemies would drop whatever they're doing to help her out of this if she ever asked. She's fine. Ron clearly has the same impulse control and power fantasies he's always had, but he's obviously taken some kind of anger management therapy (yes, probably court-ordered) and the fact that he's still consistently utilising the coping techniques they taught him is a good sign. He's still the man he was seven years ago, but I think he's learned his lessons and taken on enough knowledge and self-awareness to keep that man from falling down whatever dark rabbithole that leads to threatening to kill judges and cut up people's dogs.
I get that you're mostly all jammed up on one side of this issue because this subforum has largely skewed to alt-light MRA's overjoyed at having a #metoo that can be easily dunked on, but the amount of hyperbole and teeth-gnashing over this is really no better than the people losing their minds over the depositions proving Vic was a gigantic cheating manwhore. Everyone has skeletons in their closet, and Ron Toye's aren't anywhere near as dark as y'all are making out.
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