” – a form of exploitation in which the voyeuristic viewer is uncomfortably complicit. But still Depp supporters held girls’ nights in to watch it, and on the social media platform TikTok young women mockingly acted out snippets of Heard’s testimony. One of the more brutal surprises of this trial has been how many women, some claiming to be survivors of violence themselves, rallied to the #JusticeForJohnny hashtag alongside men’s rights activists and rightwing shock jocks.
Heard didn’t name Depp in her carefully constructed Washington Post article, and insisted in court that the piece wasn’t even solely about him. Although she had publicly accused him of abuse following their divorce, she also wrote that “like many women I had been harassed and sexually assaulted by the time I was of college age”, or in other words before she even met him. But that didn’t save her.
How, then, to stop this verdict reversing all the progress painstakingly made for female survivors of abuse? The answer doesn’t lie in chanting “believe all women”, a mantra implying that the only way of overcoming centuries of misogyny is to treat women alone as above suspicion. It’s a good campaign slogan but a bad fit for a justice system founded on the principle of believing the evidence, even where that sometimes leads in uncomfortable directions.
Quite a disappointing article Gaby, not advancing the discussion at all and so no value add. It was written to sound balance but the cues of bias are quite obvious. The case was thoroughly “heard” and indeed many who gave Amber benefit of doubt changed their minds.
It was. It almost always is. Welcome to being a victim of a gendered crime.
Awful headline (is it really that hard to get it right?), decent article.
'Her legal team warned the jury that in refusing to believe Heard they would effectively be telling women everywhere that they weren’t to be believed' This ^ has been a gross disservice to victims of violence. Amber is not at all representative of the 'everywoman'.
The entire world listened to A Turd for 6 years and unanimously judged her guilty of Abuse and Perjury. How about Johnny Depp being heard?
The guardian has missed the chance to emphasize that abuse is unisexual. The metoo movement has changed and now includes both sexes. About time, too.
Typical feminist rant - what the author and none of the 'experts' will ever address is: Are false accusations a form of Domestic Violence itself, should women who have made false accusations of rape etc, face the same prison sentences as actual rapists.
Most people who watched and listened to the trail came to the same conclusion: that Heard had lied. People believed her when she first came out with the allegations. But when held to scrutiny, it came apart because it wasn’t truthful. Heard was the main abuser, not the victim.
The jury weren't told to believe everything or nothing. They heard all the evidence, all the testimony and then decided that she was such a profound liar, which she clearly was, that it's ludicrous to believe anything she says at all, which it clearly is!
What's this BS headline? AmberHeard WAS listened to, even when she was disrespectful on the stand. The evidence was thoroughly aired. When are we going to see headers &articles about truth & evidence?
Heard's team had an important job - make her believable. They failed, or maybe Heard ignored instructions? Her conduct on stand did not help her case.
Great article. Terrible click bait headline though. Doesn’t reflect the content.
What do you say to those of us (and we were many) that went into the trial, wholeheartedly (albeit blindly) believing Amber to then watch and listen to her own words which changed our minds? Many of us were survivors ourselves we know what we are looking at.
What is manifestly obvious is that throughout their relationship, Heard was more abusive, violent and manipulative than Depp. How every journalist at the Guardian can ignore this glaring fact defies logic.
Was it really asking too much for Johnny Depp to be listened to without prejudice?
No man will touch Amber now after hearing what she did to Johnny Depp in their own private audio recordings
She was found guilty in a civil trial. Not even her own witnesses agreed with her version of events.
The person who wrote this clearly did not watch the trial and has resorted to pre-preferred tropes. Women get a raw deal. Amber Heard didn't. She ascribes to the belief that all publicity is good and that's why she wrote the defamatory article. Bye Amber.
Supporting 'Team Woman' anywhere and everywhere is the Liberal version of the 'culture wars'. It's better to stick to developing policy agendas rather than martyrology.
This article is clearly orientated. Amber was proven to be lying to the court several times, and she admitted assaulted Johnny, which is against the law. I agree however this is terrible for women, as her lies and greed is not helping real domestic abuse.
Sorry I don’t believe we should believe a women just because she is female. Every case should be judged as that every case! If u haven’t already realised men can be the victims of dv and abuse as well. This way of thinking is just saying women are right men are wrong!
You cant just 'believe all women'. Some women lie. Amber Heard was clearly lying about many things while on the stand, and this has made everything she has said questionable.
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