{"id":448259,"date":"2022-05-17T02:44:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T23:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-unfair-vilification-of-amber-heard\/"},"modified":"2022-05-17T02:44:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T23:44:32","slug":"the-unfair-vilification-of-amber-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-unfair-vilification-of-amber-heard\/","title":{"rendered":"#The unfair vilification of Amber Heard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af6c5c0cf077\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af6c5c0cf077\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-unfair-vilification-of-amber-heard\/#%E2%80%9CThe_unfair_vilification_of_Amber_Heard%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;The unfair vilification of Amber Heard&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CThe_unfair_vilification_of_Amber_Heard%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;The unfair vilification of Amber Heard&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Maureen Callahan\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=152 152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=114 114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=76 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=38 38w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>       <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Why is Johnny Depp still smirking?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe because the Internet has decided that Depp has already won this trial. As has Chris Rock, who said onstage last week that yes, we should \u201cbelieve all women, just not Amber Heard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n<p>Amber Heard isn\u2019t a perfect victim. But guess what? There are no perfect victims.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who recalls the testimony of Harvey Weinstein\u2019s rape victims \u2014 some of whom continued to have consensual sex with Weinstein after their attacks, who sent him warm emails, one even writing she hoped to introduce Weinstein to her mother \u2014 can attest to that.<\/p>\n<p>So why such hatred for Heard? Why are there so few feminist voices standing up for her?<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, she testified that Depp, more than once, grabbed her by the pubic bone and \u201ctaunt[ed] me, asking me if I thought I was so f\u2014ing tough \u2014 \u2018tough like a man now?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Amber Heard has more recall, detail and receipts than Christine Blasey Ford ever did. Yet while Blasey Ford became an im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>te cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre, a truth-to-misogynist-power meme, a metric of liberal feminist bona fides, Amber Heard has become a punch line.<\/p>\n<p>How is this fair? Or logical?<\/p>\n<p>And really, it\u2019s Depp who\u2019s the joke here: The would-be coolest of the cool, a 58-year-old man coloring in court as photos of him nodding off, passed out on the floor, are entered into evidence. As we hear testimony that his drug and alcohol abuse has rendered him incontinent and uninsurable. As he smirks and laughs as Heard testifies to horrific abuse, to Depp forcibly searching her vagina for cocaine and, in another incident, raping her with a liquor bottle.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/depp-heard-5.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Amber Heard hasn't received support from feminists as she testifies about her ex-husband Johnny Depp's alleged abuse.\" class=\"wp-image-22293100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/depp-heard-5.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/depp-heard-5.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/depp-heard-5.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Amber Heard hasn\u2019t received support from feminists as she testifies about her ex-husband Johnny Depp\u2019s alleged abuse.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Steve Helber, Pool<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>These are all awfully specific, humiliating details, and they only bolster Heard\u2019s credibility. After all, it\u2019s hard to keep the small stuff straight when you\u2019re telling lots of big lies.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the prevailing narrative, still, is that this trial is rehabbing Depp\u2019s image, saving his career, and vindicating his reputation.<\/p>\n<p>It is not. Depp is done.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t believe me? Let\u2019s revisit this cover story in The Hollywood Reporter, which ran in December 2020, one month after Depp lost his U.K. libel suit \u2014 which declared him, essentially, a wife-beater.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s radioactive,\u201d one studio head told THR. \u201cYou simply can\u2019t work with him now.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/amber-heard-1.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Heard took the stand as the trial resumed in Fairfax, Virginia on May 16, 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-22293113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/amber-heard-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/amber-heard-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/amber-heard-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Heard took the stand as the trial resumed in Fairfax, Virginia on May 16, 2022.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Steve Helber\/Pool via REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This wasn\u2019t just down to his anger, the magazine said, but Depp\u2019s \u201cunquenchable thirst for revenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another studio head called Depp \u201ca huge liability . . . the discovery that came out in that trial alone would be enough to scare away any studio.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI use him as the model for telling my clients what not to do,\u201d a top crisis manager told the magazine. \u201cIt\u2019s not a case of shooting himself in the foot. He shot himself in the face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet day in and day out, Depp\u2019s female fans flood the courtroom and stare lovingly at the back of his head. They bring gifts he\u2019ll never open. They mock a woman they refuse to believe \u2014 at all \u2014 even though false reports of domestic violence are extremely rare.<\/p>\n<p>What will this trial do to women already afraid to report their abusers?<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/johnny-depp-1-1.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Depp making giving the thumbs up to his supporters in the courtroom.\" class=\"wp-image-22293082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/johnny-depp-1-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/johnny-depp-1-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/johnny-depp-1-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Depp making giving the thumbs up to his supporters in the courtroom.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">EPA\/Steve Helber \/ POOL<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhen I go into the courtroom . . . it is majority women,\u201d Law &amp; Crime reporter Jesse Weber told Mediaite. \u201cWhen Heard . . . was testifying, I overheard a lot of people snickering, making snide comments, and laughing . . . In fact, I observed one of the court officers going up to a group of Depp supporters in court and telling them to quiet down, to show respect to the witness on the stand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a sad truism that no one is as hard on women as other women. Consider that a majority male jury convicted Harvey Weinstein.<\/p>\n<p>Four men and three women sit on Depp\u2019s jury. <\/p>\n<p>While Heard, on the stand, explained how she learned to cover up her bruises \u2014 \u201cDay two for me was always the trickiest; that\u2019s when you get the most sensitivity . . . bruises don\u2019t like to be touched,\u201d Depp leaned into his lawyer and smirked.<\/p>\n<p>Why does such vile testimony consistently elicit contempt from Johnny Depp?<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/johnny-depp-2.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Depp speaking with his lawyer as Amber Heard testified on May 16, 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-22293063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/johnny-depp-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/johnny-depp-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/johnny-depp-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Depp speaking with his lawyer as Amber Heard testified on May 16, 2022.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Photo by STEVE HELBER\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Whether you think Heard is telling the truth or not, anyone who has ever been a victim of domestic violence will tell you: None of this is funny.<\/p>\n<p>And why has the judge not rebuked Depp\u2019s demeanor? What are we, as women, supposed to take away from this tacit endorsement of his behavior?<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s testimony ended with one of Depp\u2019s female lawyers \u2014 can\u2019t have his first chair, a man, go after the little lady, am I right? \u2014 hammering Heard over her promise to donate her divorce settlement to charities, donations not yet fulfilled.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, the point is to establish Heard as a liar. Does she seem to be lying about this? Yes. Does it mean she\u2019s lying about Depp\u2019s abuse? No.<\/p>\n<p>Both things can be true at the same time. Don\u2019t ask Amber Heard to be a perfect victim.<\/p>\n<p>But as for a perfect villain \u2014 well, Johnny Depp\u2019s doing some of his best work in ages.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Maybe because the Internet has decided that Depp has already won this trial. As has Chris Rock, who said onstage last week that yes, we should \u201cbelieve all women, just not Amber Heard.\u201d Wow. Amber Heard isn\u2019t a perfect victim. 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