Crazy how many of y'all fell for the PR case of the century… It being televised, weird ass tik toks, youtube pushing compilations of this man mumbling nonsense, while jobless bitches chuckle and swoon in the background, because they watched a few pirate movies years ago. Of all people to have as an example of “a man can be abused too”, for some bird brained reason you lot chose that nasty fucking man and stuck by him, and for what? Another notch to put in your virtue signalling belt. Outstanding how moral obelisks of tumblr have chosen the worst possible case to not even give a chance to what this woman was saying/sharing. This is an instance that will surely bite yall in the ass in the upcoming years, when you find yourselves complicit. Maybe you’ll touch some grass and give your brain a chance to mature a bit, this is referring to the teens that went on a witch hunt, for you middle aged bitches, you are going to hell and he isn’t gonna fuck you <3.
Johnny Depp is a cunt, you weirdos need a lobotomy, being chronically online has rotted your brains.
As a verdict is possibly hours away, a sense of dread has been building in my stomach for what it will mean for Amber’s future, as well as all victims of intimate partner violence (IPV), particularly as women’s basic rights continue to be under attack in the United States. Like many people who are following the case, I have personal experiences with abuse. Much of my research focuses on IPV, specifically, the disparities in resources and services that are available for survivors to leave their abusers, such as economic, social, geographical barriers. It’s a topic which is deeply tied to my own personal experiences and academic career.
I initially was ambivalent to Amber Heard. Before I began to research the case, I was firmly in the “they both suck” camp, having only briefly glanced through articles. I started to pay more attention to the media coverage over the past six weeks and was really staggered by how Heard was being portrayed as a lying, crazy, gold-digging woman through narratives that were not only going unchallenged, but were heavily perpetuated in the public discourse. Even worse, that the abuse she experienced had been capitalized on by “true crime” junkies and mocked in TikTok videos and Youtube compilations. So I began watching the trial live and found that there was far more evidence and far more substantial evidence which shows that JD was the perpetrator of abuse within their relationship.
Is she guilty of fighting back? Absolutely. Shenever liedabout doing so, even dating back to her 2016 deposition. However, fighting back against a man who has beaten you, sexually assaulted you, controlled your career, finances, and who you can associate with does not equate to being an abuser. It’s simply surviving. And yes, I’ve heard those audio tapes, the in which she’s expresses her incredulity at him for stating their fights were fair when she feared he would kill her.
His case has relied upon deeply misogynistic narratives to discredit both her claims and her character. She was after his money all along, even though she refused the 30 million dollar fortune she was legally entitled to, as there was no prenup. She painted on bruises, even though a makeup artist testified to covering up her swollen lip and two black eyes. She cut off his finger, even though multiple texts and even an audio recording showcase him admitting to doing it in the midst of a bender. She didn’t donate her money, even though she and the organization created a 10 year plan for her to make yearly payments (in my personal opinion, what she does with her money either way is nobody’s fucking business). Also worth noting, an ACLU representative testified to her being ahead of schedule until Depp began suing her. She made up a hoax, because she documented her abuse - as we advise all people who are in abusive situations to do. She’s a liar, because women are inherently deceitful liars.
I don’t know whether Amber Heard will win her case. We’re witnessing a radical right-wing political swing to control and criminalize women’s bodies with Roe v. Wade under attack right now. To be blunt, I have very little faith in the justice system and that a jury - in Virginia of all places - will rule in favour of an abused woman over her charismatic, powerful ex-husband. However, I think it’s important to remember that Amber did everything right, that is, everything we tell women to do. She documented her abuse, left her abusive partner, and was granted a restraining order - and she’s continuing to be punished for doing so. If Amber, a privileged white woman with access to economic resources, is still struggling to escape her abuser, how can we expect women without those privileges to?
You know, perpetuating misogynistic narratives about Amber Heard being a lying gold-digger, manufacturing an elaborate hoax doesn’t only discredit her, it discredits women everywhere. It is an age old narrative that has been used to discredit women for centuries. It will be used to discredit you if you ever come forward about abuse/sexual assault, whether that be while talking to others about your experience, reporting it to the police, or taking it to court. And if not you, it will be your mothers, sisters, nieces, or daughters.
amber heard is a manipulative cunt for looking sad and crying in court, but johnny depp is a legend for being contemptuous, laughing, making faces and refusing to answer questions directly
we must all have sympathy for the times depp beat her up in a drug or alcohol fuelled haze because he may not remember doing it, but amber heard is an unreliable snake because she has bpd and female hysteria (diagnosed by a “psychologist” who only spoke to her for 12 hours). unlike him, she deserves no sympathy for her alleged mental illness
johnny depp can call amber heard a cum-guzzler, 50 cent stripper, fantsize about burning and raping her corpse and its okay because he was just frustrated with her. but amber is soulless for recording him being abusive or admitting to hitting her
no one cares that milani lied about when their palette came out despite no official claim that their palette was the product amber used to cover her bruises
no, amber is the abuser and devil incarnate and lying gold-digging whore. youtube, instagram, tiktok all unanimously agree. why did she stay? why did she fight back? why did she collect evidence?
this has set women back decades. this kind of victim-blaming rhetoric is a backlash of the metoo movement. i know the world hates women and victims. but the reminder is so painful. the way the world has turned to belittling amber despite the evidence breaks my heart. no female victim was ever given this much support and no male abuser has ever gotten this much vitriol. facts dont matter anymore because this abusive misogynist played a pirate you freaks liked as children. we are quite literally living in hell.
Post this because of the doctor that was part of Depp’s team and diagnosed Heard:
I have got to say, it’s nice not to be bombarded with pro Depp Youtube videos and pro Depp trends on Twitter. It also makes it very obvious that he was buying that support because the absence of his bots is very loud. I’m seeing way more support for Amber now than ever before (including when the allegations against him became public).
His stans are very agitated because they actually bought into the artificial hype. Now it’s just them harassing Amber and her supporters and they look stupid without the thousands of bots Depp used during the trial.
the response to amber heard has set survivors back decades. one look at the rhetoric and it’s clear the backlash against amber is for the benefit of MRAs who hate women.
on every single platform -
“why did she record evidence, she’s such a psychopath”
“she’s crying and emoting while recounting her abuse, she’s such an actress”
“she’s not crying enough, she must be lying about being abused”
“if he was so bad why didn’t she leave”
“why doesn’t she have video evidence of the physical abuse”
“she smiled while talking to her team, she’s a liar”
“she looks sad in court, she’s trying so hard to win sympathy”
she can’t win. she can’t smile or laugh or cry or frown without it being picked apart, while he gets to clown in the courtroom and gets lauded for it. our society is collectively harassing and making light of an abused woman. it’s a deranged form of mob mentality and I can’t imagine how unhinged you have to be to make treat a domestic violence court case like fandom wars.
the worst thing is survivors all over the world are seeing this vile rhetoric against someone WITH evidence and witnesses and fucking rulings on her side. it’s so goddamn depressing.
This whole trial tells victims: if your abuser is more charming and more well-liked than you, don’t bother coming forward because we’ll tear you apart and we’ll pat ourselves on the back for it.
“this is a clear example of an over-priveleged idiot wasting millions of dollars on a completely pointless exercise in pointing the finger at someone who supposedly ruined his career…he’s obsessed with fame and public opinion”
I think the public response to the d*** case is a perfect illustration of what many feminists have been saying for a long time: abuse is primarily a matter of power, not education. there have been so many efforts post-MeToo centered around education–if only men knew what they were doing was wrong they’d stop andif only society knew what abuse looks like we would stop victim blaming women–and now all those teachings are being weaponized against “imperfect” victims.
don’t you know laughing can be a defense mechanism? it doesn’t mean he’s not scared andof course a victim will turn to drugs and alcohol, if you think that makes him violent, you just don’t respect people with addictions andsurvivors often can’t remember things properly so it makes sense that his testimonies contradict each other.
it’s honestly so discouraging because it seems like years of activism has just served as a case study for men to come up with better PR strategies whenever they’re outed as abusers.
imagine if people cared about domestic abuse survivors as much as they care about johnny depp
He is a domestic abuse survivor you fuck wit.
Imagine if people cared about domestic abuse survivors as much as they care about defending female abusers
op is a dumbass and a hypocrite.
anyway, believe women, not men who have long histories of violence, and don’t be like these idiots who will blindly eat up anything that johnny depp shits
wow okay so depp’s psychologist or whatever said that “bpd is a common factor in women who physically abuse their partners” and none of y'all are blinking an eye at that…… LMFAO
i hope every depp supporter gets their teeth knocked out
wait so lemme get this straight… this bitch was hired BY DEPP to evaluate amber. after TWELVE HOURS she came to the conclusion that amber has borderline personality disorder. and then of course goes on to say that in her professional experience or whatever, women with bpd are basically known to be abusers.
are y'all seeing this shit???
on top of that she also diagnosed her with histrionic personality disorder. so this psychologist (HIRED BY DEPP WHO HAS HAD DINNER AT HIS HOUSE) talks with amber for TWELVE HOURS across TWO DAYS, diagnoses her with bpd (making her an “abuser”) and hpd (making her “attention-seeking”) and no one thinks this is a little weird. a little odd. a little bit of a setup?
but amber’s psychologist who worked with her all the way back in 2019 is a sham apparently. amber is faking ptsd as a bisexual victim of abuse from MULTIPLE different people in her life but this clown hired by her abuser can diagnose her with bpd and hpd in less than a day. i fucking hate y'all.
Amber Heard had more evidence supporting her claims than most abuse victims have and yet that jury decided she defamed that man. I’m truly angry and disgusted. This has been a major setback for women and abuse victims.
so the jury also found that Depp’s lawyer calling her allegations of abuse “a hoax” was defamatory (so I guess they do find that he abused her) so this was literally just saying “yes he abused you but you can never speak about it.”
you can have pictures but it’s not enough you can have corroborating witnesses but it isn’t enough you can have texts where he fantasizes about murdering and raping you but it isn’t enough you can have him admitting he was controlling and angry and violent but it isn’t enough. this is going to get people killed
It’s not evidence of abuse that JD was not there for the final verdict.
It does show, in my opinion, a great amount of disrespect and along with how he conducted himself a continuation of a certain amount of, let’s say, glibness.
But again, it’s not evidence of abuse. It’s not.
That being said -
Can you imagine if Amber Heard had done the same fucking thing?
No seriously, can you even fucking imagine how people would’ve responded if she didn’t appear in court for the final verdict, for any reason at all? Any reason? Let alone to make a surprise guest appearance for a concert in another country?
We would still be getting 15-20 articles a day about how that shows who she really is. Proof that’s she’s every horrible thing possible. Or what true gentlemen JD was to respect the jury, judge, and everyone else in the court room, and even the state of Virginia by attending, unlike the she-devil.
My head explodes thinking about how social media would’ve responded.
It’s not even JUST that people shrug it off completely or maybe (maybe) lightly criticized him that has made me so angry; it’s because if it had been her – many of those same people would’ve have spewed nonstop vitriol about her.
I likely would’ve strongly criticized her myself; because that choice shows a lack of respect.
I’m just so fucking furious at how the blatant bias continues; how so many people act like that it shouldn’t be criticized one bit because well it was a previous engagement, and he couldn’t possibly get out of it, there was no chance at all, it just couldn’t be done.
the truth is most men couldn’t give a shit about male domestic abuse victims. they don’t even give a shit about women who are victims of domestic abuse. not the stats , the commonness and normalisation of it all. nothing. the depp/heard trial made it okay for men to jump in on the misogynistic videos, ripping AH apart through memes, parody videos, because they saw so many women openly and happily taking part in it too this time. most of them didn’t even give a shit about depp, and probably don’t still. even after the verdict. where was this level of support for brendan fraser, terry crews, for all the male victims of kevin spacey, of bryan singer? where are the petitions calling for ezra miller to be removed from the flash?
all this meant was having the chance and excuse to be openly misogynistic for views, and receive praise, clout, hoards of new followers from it, because there was such a huge following for depp (the person they think he is because of his films/roles). to openly hate, despise, troll, and tear apart a woman finally. it was only about their own stats, their new found grasp at popularity. they knew they wouldn’t be called out on the sexism, the misogyny because it was fair game. it was amber - the liar. the crier. amber turd. the lies, the jokes about abuse and rape. the misinformation spread like wildfire; public opinion formed from biased tiktok, twitter bots. the lack of critical thinking staggering. “our capn’ jack!”. none of these meme pages, the bots, faceless accounts had anyintention of learning about the truth - not about the evidence given in the previous trial. how he lost because the evidence against him was staggering. they have no intention to learn about the domestic abuse statistics. sharing charities, gofundme’s. most of them don’t even understand why the pair were in court in the first place - the legalities of the trial and what that means to other victims of abuse (past, present and future). they couldn’t give a shit about any of them because they didn’t care beforethe trial in the first place. they even ignored that #metoo counted male victims of domestic abuse too.
his supporters don’t care what his win means to victims, and how it’s stripped them of their right to call themselves victims of abuse. even his ‘fans’ who hailed themselves as victims of abuse, ironically don’t even understand that they can’t even call themselves that anymore, without threat of being sued - because of his win. they don’t care about the victims that don’t have millions in their bank, with no way of escaping their abuser, unable to divorce them, move to another country. they’d do it all over again online to the next woman who this happens to so publicly. because social media reeks of misogyny and society allows it. this trial has set back women decades, and men have jumped happily in on the trend too because women were so prevalent in tearing AH down too. all for that shrivelled red-wine-stained-teeth wrinkly ballsack of a man - * who by the way is back in court for assaulting someone on a fucking film set.
Johnny Depp once pledged to buy Wounded Knee and give the land back to Native Americans. He never did. (He also claimed to be part Native American during the promotional campaign for The Lone Ranger but the results were never confirmed or released….maybe it’s just his sense of humor.)
funny how the delusional jd supporters on tiktok have never seen the texts johnny sent to paul bettany about amber or even bothered to read all of the evidence she provided but were quick to believe that jack sparrow was a smol innocent bean and that amber was an evil bitch who just wanted to set him up..and when you bring all that up along with his problematic and violent past they are immediately like “But have you seen the trial?” Yes, I have and I also saw the social media smear campaign against Amber. She never stood a chance against him. You mocked a woman who had the courage to testify against her abuser while the whole world was on his side. I hope you all feel deeply ashamed of yourselves. This is why most women don’t speak out. Because no one believes them.
“ I don’t care what one thinks about me or what judgments you want to make about what happened in the privacy of my own home, in my marriage, behind closed doors. I don’t presume the average person should know those things. And so I don’t take it personally,” Heard said.
“But even somebody who is sure I’m deserving of all this hate and vitriol, even if you think that I’m lying, you still couldn’t look me in the eye and tell me that you think on social media there’s been a fair representation. You cannot tell me that you think that this has been fair.”
“Even if you think that I’m lying, you still couldn’t look me in the eye and tell me that you think on social media there’s been a fair representation. You cannot tell me that you think that this has been fair.”
what’s crazy is i remember how much johnny depp was disliked and even downright hated before all of this. people hated his willy wonka. they hated the last few pirates films. they hated most if not all of his recent films. people were pissed when he became grindelwald at the end of fantastic beasts. i was there! i remember it!
That’s what I was saying! His career was already on the decline before all this crap started. What could that Washington Post op-ed possibly do that Mortdecai and Dark Shadows hasn’t done already?
People are already flipping the script on Megan the stallion, Melissa Benoist, and Evan Rachel Wood.
I said this trial was going to set a dangerous precedent for abuse victims and it will be ugly in the next couple of weeks. It’s going to be ugly for awhile
Please please please do not ignore what is happening to abuse victims and survivors rn. It’s very important to equip yourself with knowledge and be ready to stand up for those of us who are too scared to speak.
I cannot even express enough how ugly this will all be for a lot of people.
I’m being so serious it’s very important now more than ever that people are ready to combat the violence that’s about to come out fully. Johnny depp was literally just the beginning and people were so quiet about that
aaron taylor johnson and charlie heaton were both groomed by older, more powerful women when they were new to the industry. terry crews spoke of being sexually harassed by an executive. brendan fraser was sexually assaulted and the experience was so horrible for him that it spiraled him into a depression, affecting his career. his assaulter never faced charges. the kevin spacey trial is coming up where he is being charged for sexual assault.
if you GENUINELY care for male victims, at least famous ones, you’d make some noise about these cases. however, these past few months, i have hardly seen a bolstering of these cases. instead i see a campaign of inappropriate memes and edits being made. is that your way to show you “care about male victims” lmao?? by making a mockery of a case discussing dv topics?? i think people like to hide behind the guise of caring about male victims when it’s really just an excuse to engage in inappropriate, obscene behaviors.
one of the scariest outcomes of that johnny depp - amber heard trial is that it has people deadass convinced that actually, men being the victims of evil women is the new hot take we all need to pay attention to more. abuse, especially domestic abuse, is extremely gendered and trying to debunk that fact is extremely dangerous. 95% of abuse victims are women. men can be victims of domestic abuse but most of the time they are abused by other men then. women can be the abuser but most of them time they are abusing other women then. it doesn’t mean that men never happen to be victims of abusive women but it happens very rarely.
depp stans trying to deny that and acting like “women are probably more likely to be villains and abusive than the men they’ve accused of being abusive” is the new woke take to live by, as if the very reason why so many people immediately chose depp’s side while participating in amber heard’s public abuse, isn’t that the patriarchy still exists, women have been villainized throughout history and continue to be opressed, silenced and abused by men. yall really fucking hate women and then try to explain why men are the bigger victims in our society. make it make sense
“You know how many men are starting to sarcastically call their wives/girlfriends ‘Amber’ or ‘Miss Heard’ when they are upset or angry?
I keep getting messages and comments from women saying this is happening to them in arguments with spouse or exes.
The damage is done.
This case and the societal response to it, the global bullying, mocking and hatred towards Amber is destroying VAWG, feminism & any progress we’ve made breaking down stigma of domestic/sexual abuse - either that - or we had never made any progress at all & we were in an echo chamber.
Last week was the first time a woman commented to tell me that her ex has started calling her ‘Amber’ as an insult.
Then another woman commented that her husband threatened her and when she cried, he called her ‘Amber’
I’ve started seeing more and more comments.
This morning I woke up to a comment from a woman who said her ex was screaming at her in front of their daughter so she asked him to stop screaming and lower his voice and he said ‘Ok Miss Heard’ and DARVO her.
The fact that these comments appear to be from women from different countries, different ages, different backgrounds and yet men are starting to use ‘Amber’ and ‘Miss Heard’ as an insult is fucking terrifying.
I keep finding myself questioning what the real agenda was of televising this trial, and the media coverage of it.
What was the real purpose of tearing apart a woman like this for the whole world to watch on YouTube and Tiktok with their popcorn?
