'She hit me again, raining blows down on me': Robert Kennedy's court filing reveals how Mary abused his children and violently attacked him throughout their marriage | Mail Online

funnyfaceking · 2012-06-11T05:02:48+00:00

but, but...he's a rich white man...

FrenchFuck · 2012-06-11T02:19:27+00:00

Stunning

2012-06-10T21:51:42+00:00

The affadavit here: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/06/10/the-last-days-of-mary-richardson-kennedy.html

AmazingFlightLizard · 2012-06-12T13:10:57+00:00

Can we do the thing where we don't bring politics into it and assume what "Conservitards" or "Libtards" would say?

I think it is pretty well understood anyways that during that man's time the political spectrum was WAAAY different than it is now.

What is unfortunate for the MRM in this case, is that were the man still around today, he would be enough of a Cult of Personality to maybe gain some traction for the cause. As it is, it seems to be a pretty well uphill battle for anything we may fight for.

genuinemra · 2012-06-11T01:16:28+00:00

Very sad. I will be interested to see how conservative Kennedy-haters spin this.

2012-06-10T21:44:13+00:00

"...according to the affidavit, Mary became violent towards Robert shortly before they were married.

'Soon after Mary became pregnant with our first son, Mary, in a sudden rage about my continued friendship with [my ex-wife] Emily, hit me in the face with her fist,’ Robert said in the documents.

‘She was a trained boxer and I got a shiner. Her engagement ring crushed my tear duct causing permanent damage ... Mary asked me to lie to her family about the cause of my shiner.'

Robert alleges in the affidavit that Mary's physical abuse frequently reduced him to tears.

loony636 · 2012-06-11T04:41:14+00:00

How on earth this is a Men's Rights issue? He probably persevered with the physical violence for the sake of his relationship, trying desperately to stop the woman he loved from turning into someone who would tear his family apart. He probably did it for the kids, making sure that their interests went even beyond his own for personal safety. And, most importantly, he probably did it for her, so that she wouldn't do something stupid when he wasn't around to stop her.

And then, finally, once he broke it off, she killed herself, fulfilling exactly the same prophecy he knew had been told from that first confrontation.

And you post that tragedy here? In this place? As some coy attempt to demonstrate a victory for men or the inconsistencies in feminism? For shame. This is a tale of the tragedy of domestic violence, the tragedy of mental illness, and its anything but politics.

Speaking after Mary's funeral, her old school friend Kerry Kennedy said that Mary had suffered from mental illness the entire 37 years they had known one another.

'She struggled so hard, for so long, with mental illness, which so many Americans suffer with,' Kerry Kennedy said after her death. 'She fought with dignity, and in the end, the demons won.'

Now get out.

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