the amber heard vs. johnny depp debate is so funny… as if one of them isn’t known for being a longtime volatile menace. yeah johnny’s normal in private, he’s only a violent cokehead in public at his job
amber is not innocent and johnny is not innocent. but depp’s influence in hollywood and how he manipulated the PR of the case is undeniable, and the way he used his influence is deplorable. ask yourself, why do you adore johnny depp despite the fact he said he would drown his wife, burn her, and then rape her corpse to make sure she was dead? why are you clapping your hands and cheering for him when he wrote on walls with his own bleeding finger? when he already lost a trial in the UK where the judge decided there was substantial evidence to prove abuse? when he said amber was “asking for humiliation on a global scale and she’s going to get it”? when he regularly spent time doing drugs with marilyn manson, a well-known rapist and abuser? when he has been charged with assault multiple times throughout his life and probably will be again before long? why are you still a die-hard fan? why?
and why do you hateamber heard with a burning rage? why do you feel such vitriolic hostility towards her? why do you wish she was dead? why do you wish she would kill herself? why can’t you resist calling her a slut, and a bitch, and a cunt, and making fun of her claims when she had every right to make them? i am not saying she is perfect and i’m not saying everything she said was true (i wouldnt say the same about depp either). but she has been receiving and is still receiving an unprecedented amount of violent rage online that not even harvey weinstein received during his court cases. she is being dragged through the mud and hated upon even more than the most prolific male rapist hollywood has seen in decades. why?
you have been manipulated to have sympathy with depp during this trial. amber is not innocent and depp is not innocent. neither are perfect and neither should have to be ‘perfect’ to be taken seriously in a court of law. but you need to examine your feelings and wonder where they came from. why do you cheer for one abuser and spit on the other? where is the equality in all this that both feminists and anti-feminists are saying is there?
what depp and his PR team did to get the upper hand on social media and how they wielded this advantage will come to light at some point, and you’ll all feel like fools for falling for it so easily and willingly.
I will say that the idea of ‘mutual abuse’ is a flawed one and I don’t think anybody should be giving it credibility. it establishes a precedent wherein those who stand up to or attempt to fight their abusers in some way somehow become a guilty party
much better to simply say you don’t know the facts of a situation than it is to say both parties can be victims of the other’s terror at once…
and I mean this very strongly like hitting your abuser doesn’t suddenly make you the abuser or a co-abuser. abuse is about who has the control and the power to leverage it
okay I promise the last reblog but: it’s important to mention that abusers thrive off of this very idea. baiting a victim into retaliation in order to frame their abuse as part of a mutual brawl later, or to coax their victim into forgiving them because ‘we both behaved badly, we lost our temper’ etc is not uncommon. it’s a great way of making their victim doubt the reality that they’re experiencing abuse
(yoinked this post from a transmisogynist since it was not about gender and more about abuse)
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.
Text message from Heard to her publicist; “ I’m really bruised and might have a black eye or two tmrw – same with my nose. Nurse on the way to make sure I don’t have concussion.” There are also texts to her psychotherapist saying it’s an ‘emergency’ and a text to a friend in which she says “J beat me up pretty good”. (page 87)
*Although many assume Heard referred to Depp’s gender, in actuality, listening to the audio reveals no article and that Heard uses “man…” as an expression of displeasure, not as a noun.
Heard did not defecate in Depp’s bed and the previous judge ruled it unlikely. The judge in the previous case ruled it likely it were the dogs, as there was evidence it“had an incomplete mastery of her bowels.”
Depp was the one to originally ask Amber to settle outside of court, and the couple issued a statement that, “Neither party has made false accusations for financial gain.”
Depp is suing Heard for $50 million, over 7x the amount they originally settled together. Heard originally attempted to get the suit moved to California and dismissed, and only filed a counterclaim when it was refused.
The suit is not to determine whether Heard was violent, or whether their relationship was mutually toxic, but as to whether Heard lied in her op-ed, and there is plenty of evidence of Depp physically harming Heard multiple times; regardless of Heard’s retaliation, he has been proven to be a domestic abuser.
[DISCLAIMER:This post is purely in relevance to the Heard vs. Depp case, to fact-check claims made by Depp, his team, as well as opinions on social media. They are not meant to be a remission on Heard’s part of any potential wrongdoing.]
I told y’all the depp case was going to make times hard on abuse victims and people had the nerve to tell me I was blowing things out of proportion now look
Ask Marilyn Manson and Johnny Depp are friends let that sink in for you.
Also very important to mention that both amber heard and Evan Rachel wood are both bi women. You’re going to be seeing biphobia you’re going to see misogyny.
You’re going to see more people being ableist.
You’re going to hear and see things that involve abuse I’m warning y’all again try not to dismiss me this time around
I mentioned bisexuality because bi women face a greater risk of abuse and it NEEDS to be talked about more
