#heard depp trial
i’ve loosely followed the depp vs heard trial, and seeing how social media has reacted i was pro-depp like everyone else. then, i saw one (1) tweet talk about how the fact people are reacting to Heard talking about her abuse how damaging this will be for victims who are reading this backlash, reading the incredible horrfying things about Heard from strangers, from their friends, from their own family and what the consequences of that will be. What should abuse look like? Does abuse only look like one particular thing? Do victims overreact? Should they? Are they allowed to? What if they don’t remember one memory to the T, does that mean they’re lying? Does it mean I am lying when I don’t recall an event perfectly bc my brain blocked it out? It’s just very, very strange the sudden…shift in the perception of victims of abuse. As if everyone reacts the same. As if everyone suffers the same. As if everyone copes the same. It’s fucking weird.
Coming back to Depp vs Headd, do people not see how hard Depp’s legal team is working to fuel this perception? How are people not fact-checking all the bullshit social media is trying to push to paint this image of Depp as a innocent angel? He is not innocent lmao. He is not some sort of angel who has done no wrong. I have seen one (1) video of this trial-him in the kitchen-and let me tell you, my fight or flight mode kicked in. I was scared of him in that video. It reminded me of my own experience with a grown up man being physically intimidating on purpose to scare and psychologically abuse you and your family. Yet people reacted like Depp was being normal. That was not fucking normal. What the fuck?
And fuck, wanting to televise and actually televising the trial like it’s a fucking sit-com is so fucking damaging and not a “win” for male-victims. Look at how everyone is so fucking happy to have a pass to be a misogynistic asshole, how they’re so bloody happy to FINALLY not have to believe the woman and feel free to shred her apart raw. I did not see this kind of heat for Harvey Weinstein, for Roman Polanski, for literally any male abusers.
And I won’t even start on the weird fancams of Depp and reenactments of testimonies and such on tiktok. That’s fucking weird. Like, incredibly weird. This isn’t fiction, it’s a real life matter. Can we please just? Think a bit more critically? And stop with the weird fandom reactions to this trial?
