Accompanying a story yesterday about the draft of a potential overturning of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court was a photograph that included a woman holding a sign that said “The Endless War Against Women.” Well, everyone is entitled to their opinion, and everyone’s “got one.” Of course it is also possible for men to wonder when the “endless war” against them is going to end, when anyone can be ridiculed or libeled by some anonymous woman out for “revenge” on #MeToo or some other social media format.
Thus when actress Amber Heard was allowed to publish an op-ed accusing Johnny Depp on the pages of the Washington Post of domestic abuse, Depp decided that he would engage in his own “war” against what he believed (and believes) is Heard’s hypocritical attempt to negate the truth. Depp’s defamation case against Heard is currently in court; I’ve talked about the issues here 1 and here 2, and Heard is a difficult person to feel any sympathy for, and appears to be the real villain in their brief marriage. Heard reportedly married Depp because she was basically full of herself and saw him as a “trophy husband” and not a human being.
Why Heard wrote the op-ed claiming to be the victim of domestic violence is clear enough. She was no doubt aware of the whisperings by Depp’s friends and others who witnessed Heard’s violent and abusive behavior toward him, and wanted her “story” out there; of course with all the gender politicking in the media, the Post decided to publish it without bothering to check if Heard’s claims of “victimhood” were credible; I mean, women never lie, right?—just ask Sherri “Gone Girl” Papini.
Heard does have a history, or at least one where she couldn’t hide or lie about. She was arrested in 2009 by police at SeaTac Airport, when she was observed physically assaulting a woman who turned out to be her “partner”—yes, Heard admits to being “bisexual,” and she apparently thinks of herself as the “butch” partner in a relationship, and presumably plays the part. Her “partner” did not press charges, and has claimed since that Heard was only arrested because of “homophobia.”
Yes, Depp unknowingly married a woman who not only had a history of violent and abusive behavior, but perhaps was not really into men anyways. One suspects that if Heard was violent toward her female partners, what would stop her from being violent against a man if she thought it was “normal” behavior? It is interesting to note that Heard has a problem with maintaining relationships, likely because of her psychological “issues,” which will be mentioned later, while Depp’s other former domestic partners have testified that he was never physically abusive toward them.
To summarize what I wrote about in the above links, it was revealed in audio recordings with a therapist, as reported by The Daily Mail, that Heard was incapable of recognizing the pain caused Depp because of her abusive behavior and apparently uncontrollable violent impulses. When Depp is heard to say he has to get out of the same room when Heard becomes “manic and angry” and starts throwing “pots and whatever,” she claims that it is “irrelevant” and this doesn’t show “respect” for her. Depp asks her why he “should just let you throw” objects at him, which she again tries to brush off, leading Depp to exclaim that her behavior is “fucking irrational and violent.” Addressing Heard’s anger that Depp is trying to avoid her, he says “So a man would want to get out of that area so that he doesn't get so fucking angry that he actually does pop the fucking wife.”
After Depp accused her of punching him in the face and then lying about it, Heard claimed that she just “hit” him; it is only “punching” if she had “fucking decked you,” so he was “fine.” Depp is then heard telling her if their arguments get so bad they need to go into their own corners so it doesn’t escalate into violence—suggesting that it is Heard who wants these confrontations—but Heard asserts that this is “disrespectful” to her, apparently because she needs a victim to work off her aggression, like kicking a dog. When Depp says he needs to get away from her and “de-jellify my fucking brain,” Heard claims that she “can’t promise” she won’t get “physical again” and in a rare moment of self-reflection says “God I fucking sometimes get so mad I lose it.”
Depp has denied any and all abuse claims being made by Heard, and blames their toxic relationship for causing his substance abuse, and it should again be pointed out that the women in Depp’s previous relationships have testified that Depp was not abusive toward them—apparently because they were “normal.” A private nurse who worked with Heard testified that she suffers from “bipolar disorder”; The Psychiatric Times notes that people with the disorder are “at significantly increased risk for violence” and “Bipolar patients are prone to agitation that can result in impulsive aggression during manic and mixed episodes.” Thus Heard’s claims of alleged abuse from her father can be interpreted another way: frustration at her bad behavior because of her probably undiagnosed psychological disorder.
An expert witness for Depp who examined Heard described her as having uncontrollable "rage and hostility" and had "borderline" disorder, but does that matter; Depp may think “right” is on his side, but in this gender victim obsessed society, he is definitely on the wrong side of it. But it is a fair question to ask why this has to be a lose-lose situation for Depp (or men in general) when it is clear that Heard has significant psychological and behavioral issues that she has managed to mostly keep from public scrutiny. Even if by odd chance Depp wins his case, it will be reported as how women continue to be “victimized,” and there will be no examination of violence by women, rather than the continued focus always on them being the only victims. In this society, women can kill a man and claim it was self-defense against an abuser and people are programmed to believe that without question; but if a man merely lifts a hand to counter a blow against an abusive woman, she is still the “victim.”
Depp did suffer significant harm to his career from Heard’s self-serving op-ed; the last major project he appeared in was the 2017 Pirates of the Caribbean film. In an effort to jumpstart his career, Depp filed a libel case against a British tabloid, but lost the case because it doesn’t matter what she did, only what he allegedly did. Only women are allowed the privilege of self-defense against an abuser. Unfortunately, most people assume the current case in a Virginia court won’t turn out any better for him, and Howard Stern (among others) has stated that it wasn’t a good idea to bring this case to begin with.
After all, Heard knows her audience, as she asserted during one of those “therapy” sessions: “Do you know I'm a 115, well not anymore, but I was a 115lb, almost 115lb woman,” and then in a mocking tone “You're going to get up on the stand, Johnny, and say, she started it? Really? You can please tell people that it was a fair fight, and see what the jury and judge thinks. Tell the world Johnny, tell them Johnny Depp, I Johnny Depp, a man, I'm a victim too of domestic violence."
After a parade of witnesses who testified to her abusive behavior, Heard’s first defense witness was one of those “experts” in abused women syndrome, meaning someone with a political agenda who will believe anything they are told if it fits their preconceived notions about gender victimization; on cross-examination, her clear bias against men was brutally exposed. Interestingly, the most newsworthy claims of “abuse” to come out of that testimony was something about oral or vaginal-stimulated sex; isn’t “fingering” one of the ways lesbians have “hot sex” in the movies and cable TV series?
Heard--whose demeanor and body language at her attorney's table was the very picture of arrogance at the very least--has taken the stand and of course she played the emotional “victim” because that is what her lawyers told her to do to gain sympathy with the jury; many people have observed her poor acting skills, "crying" without shedding any actual tears, a sure sign of phoniness.
Naturally she is only going to willingly talk about Depp’s alleged behavior and not her own; that will come during cross examination; Depp's lawyers have thus far been successful at exposing the many holes in the defense case, and one suspects that Heard's true character will also be exposed, especially by audio evidence that clearly shows that she lied on the stand. We are likely to see this version of Heard (1)...
...who during a 2016 deposition repeatedly lied, denied and evaded the question of her previous arrest for domestic violence against her female "wife," even refusing (with the help of a really annoying attorney) to admit that she spent a night in jail; Heard's behavior during the deposition has to be seen to be believed, and is clearly indicative of her true character.
Heard is claiming that Depp “changed” over time; Depp’s lawyers should point to the testimony of his long-time Hispanic housemaid, who after the poop-on-the-bed episode, claimed to often hearing Heard “yell at Mr. Depp and at other people” and that “She has a bad temper in my opinion, and I did not want her to yell at me…in the over 30 years I have worked for Mr. Depp, I have never seen Mr. Depp be physical with or yell at anyone.” Here, a criminal body language expert probes Heard's demeanor and comes to the conclusion that Heard is making largely false statements (2) while this criminal attorney is also sees a certain "fakeness" and incomprehensibility in her testimony (3).
But the “defense” of abusers like Heard is that because they are women, the abuse they commit isn’t relevant; that certainly is the line that the gender-biased mainstream media is feeding the public. But that is wrong: “size” is less important than the will and intent to act violently; yet society allows abusive women like Heard to believe that it will look the other way, that it is just part of their “nature,” like a mosquito buzzing around your head; besides, it’s just a “little” thing, and you have to “hope” it will go away. But you know it won’t go away, and if you don’t do something to stop it, it is going to drain your blood and possibly leave a disease inside of you.
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