Heard’s actions weren’t really key to my observation, the online behavior of others is.

I have no idea what kind of person Amber is, but there’s some pretty hard evidence that Depp is at least not a very good partner. But none of that is really any of my concern, the internet reaction to the whole thing was a fucking disappointment. Let’s not kid ourselves, people were so eager to drag a woman as…

Except that quote is a perfect Rorschach test.

Exactly this. Neither are saints and Depp only won the defamation trial. He wasn’t innocent of abuse, he wasn’t proven innocent by the trial, etc. All of the people dogpiling for clout, lols, or they’re MRA and incels is fucking insane. 

I fear the comments that are coming, but thank you for pushing back on this garbage. The trial was a nasty hateful carnival where everybody clearly relished the opportunity to weaponize their misogyny with no reservations, and I’m sorry for all the women that behavior pressured into silence.

I shamefully use Reddit from time to time and felt like I was drowning in the saliva of teenage boys who were eager to have an imperfect woman be the target of their rage.

Thank you, I feel like I’m taking crazy pills with how many dudebros saw this trial and thought “Surely this guy who had two judgements against him for beating his wife was the hero all along.”

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Moderated, hmm?...

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It’s not “a California judge”, it’s an appellate court (three appellate judges) upholding a California super court judge’s ruling.

the Rihanna one was weird because they didn’t even sound very similar, it sounded like lots of other testimonies. I guess people just read the headline and believed.

I think the “hurting the case” in a lot of ways can be shown through some of the headlines - claims that she lifted testimony from Rhianna was a big one.

I find it helps to completely ignore this shit and not have an opinion on it until a verdict is reached. And then ignore it some more.

We learned that if you pay enough to astroturf YouTube and dozens of other websites with material slandering your ex-wife, you can get away with anything.

If Heard somehow survives this without overdosing with what I’m sure has been an impossible time to maintain sobriety or taking her own life, then I’m both amazed at how resilient she is and extremely sad that anyone needs to be that resilient.

Whether you believe the testimony of Depp’s side (mostly made up of people directly financially dependent on him asserting that he’s a good dude who barely even drinks $100,000 in wine a year money) or Heard’s side (backed-up with lots of text messages and receipts, etc.)

5. Propaganda works.

This whole thing has been so gross -- and honestly shame on everyone who says she is terrible -- I think we can all agree they were both terrible in ways and the power dynamic was way off I have been disgusted with the response to this whole thing 

I think the main takeaway is that people have no idea how complex abuse is, I don’t know how you can look at the timeline of events and your takeaway is that Amber Heard is somehow hurting the cause. She is part of the cause and being a victim of abuse is messy. The doubt the public put in Heard that somehow the real…