Some think it was wrong to get hooked on the lurid spectacle of the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial.
Vile, yes. Still, there is a reason it was hard to stop watching, and it is a primal one: This is our creation story. Post-trial stories about Heard and Depp are exploring whether they will still have careers in Hollywood or whether they will be pariahs, banished from that palm-tree-lined paradise. And for the right wing, he added, “We’ve given them further ammunition about the excesses and out-of-touchness of Hollywood and its denizens.”Indeed, misogynistic tropes started with Eve, who is blamed for tempting Adam into original sin. If only God had found some other way “to generate mankind” than by woman, “this fair defect of nature”, Milton’s Adam laments. He fears the “innumerable disturbances on earth through female snares”.