Johnny Depp's supporters are reacting to the truth, not because he is a "man"

 

With the case having gone to the jury yesterday, I didn’t really want to talk about Johnny Depp and Amber Heard again, since like the vast majority of people who paid attention to the trial know the truth is simple to ascertain, even if the “system” is rigged against men. In regard to domestic violence, in this society women must to win at all costs, even if they have to lie.

Thus it angered me to read NPR’s media reporter, Anastasia Tsioulcas, fabricate a rationalization for why Depp is winning the court of public opinion: “On TikTok, as of Monday morning, #IStandWithAmberHeard has garnered about 8.2 million views, while #JusticeForJohnnyDepp has earned about 15 billion views. Why is there such a disparity?”

For one thing, if you were doing your homework, you would know that the "justice for Johnny" campaign didn't kick into high gear until the release of those infamous audio recordings that proved that Heard wasn't the innocent victim she pretended to be. Further, if you had been paying attention to the trial and not getting all your information that the networks and tabloids who have been cherry-picking only what puts Depp in negative light and not Heard, you would also know the answer to that. 

But instead of asking a lawyer who is following the trial, Tsioulcas calls in a “specialist in sexual violence”—i.e. in a field that is 100 percent biased against men—named Nicole Bedera, who claimed that “men's rights groups and other anti-feminist groups are better organized.” Oh really? If that is true, then why are men “cancelled” and their lives destroyed by just the suggestion of an anonymous woman accusing them of domestic or sexual violence, while women are almost never held to account for the violence they commit?

Outside the courtroom many and probably most of Depp’s supporters are women, and quite a few billion hits for “Justice for Johnny” are from women as well. But why let reality get in the way? "In our society," Bedera intones, "we expect that victims fit a specific mold. We call it the perfect victim trope. And often we confuse victims' self-defense as a form of aggression. And this is really common in cases like this, where perpetrators will claim that they are the true victims.” But men don't have that same right to "self-defense"? Obviously Bedera hasn’t bothered to listen to those audio tapes, which includes one where Heard tells Depp to stop being a “baby” and take her “hits” to his head "like a man," and another where Heard is talking to him like Linda Blair’s demonically-possessed character in the Exorcist:

 

Bedera goes on: "This is my biggest concern about this case, and I think it's something that's really gotten lost in the sensationalism around the trial. Right now, [Depp's] team is alleging that if a woman comes forward and identifies as a survivor in public, that that could count as defamation." That’s right, for men who are victims of domestic violence from a partner who has clear psychological issues, it is a lose-lose situation. They should just shut-up about it.

Bedera shows her bias again by assuming Depp is the guilty party: "One question I have right now, in our sort of post-#MeToo moment we're trying to decide what the consequences should be for intimate partner violence. And the reality is that Johnny Depp is facing a lot of consequences for committing acts of violence, not just to Amber Heard but also for volatile behavior on set. And people who work alongside him have a bit clearer of a picture than somebody who's watching it on TikTok and doesn't know any of the people involved in this case.” 

First of all, as Hollywood "insiders" testified to in court, Depp's "diva" behavior, and even his substance abuse, was not "unusual" for actors regarded as "stars," and as long as they made money for the studios it was tolerated. It was Heard's accusations, especially in the Washington Post op-ed, that changed everything. On the other hand, another insider testified that Heard's "Q scores"--which measure an actor's marketabilty--were "terrible," which even before the so-called Waldman statements showed Heard with responses three times more negative than positive from media consumers. And as Heard repeatedly accused those whose testimony exposed her lies, Bedera was not “there” either. People like this just don’t care about any reality that contradicts their own preconceived notions of who constitutes a perpetrator and victim.

If you were paying attention to the testimony in court, it is not at all hard to sympathize with Depp’s version of events and feel disgust for Heard as a human being. The following is the “evidence” we were presented by Heard’s team. Here we clearly see that these two images are exactly the same one, except that the one on the left has clearly been “enhanced” by photo editing software to appear more “red,” which is not Heard’s naturally pale skin color:

 

Here we see Heard in court wearing rouge on her cheeks:

 

Do you see a difference? I sure the hell don’t; in fact this image looks more "bruise-like." If she told you the rouge was actually a bruise, would you believe her? I’m sure that a lot of her diehard supporters would. Heard at one point “mistakenly” referred to that round makeup kit as a “bruise kit,” which she immediately “corrected.” A bruise kit is a real thing, used in films for actors to fake bruises and other injuries. Did Heard really “misspeak”? 

Here we see someone on TikTok demonstrating how to fake the kind of bruises seen around Heard’s eyes in another image, using the same “kit” Heard and her attorney were showing the jurors:

 

This is important because all of the witnesses who were actually present during the time of alleged battering incidents stated that they saw no injuries—let alone actual “battering—on Heard; these only “magically” appeared when Heard wanted someone to see an injury.  At the incident that involved police, they saw no evidence that Heard had been “battered,” and no one present at the scene corroborated Heard’s claims, and stated they could not arrest anyone just simply because there was an argument. Let us also remember that there was no corroborating documents from either medical professionals or law enforcement ever produced at trial of any alleged injury to Heard because they simply did not exist--not even from Heard's own personal nurse.

This photo taken of Heard the day after she filed a restraining order against Depp when he was on a European tour did not win Heard any new converts, especially after that “bruise” that the paparazzi had been pre-notified to take pictures of a day earlier disappeared as magically as they appeared:

 

I say "magical" because Heard had last encountered Depp six days prior, when he was leaving for that tour in Europe. This image of a "bruise" on Heard’s arm probably wasn’t faked...

 

…but that doesn’t mean it was caused by a physical blow. How many people have noticed similar bruising on their shoulders or legs for no apparent reason? I certainly have; an article on the website Healthline https://www.healthline.com/health/random-bruising discusses how such bruising happens and why women are more likely to experience them than men.

Heard’s making obvious false statements and lying even about the smallest things have turned people against her, as well her playacting. Her attempts to conceal her lies included the already referred to testimony about the money paid to her by Depp to donate to the ACLU and the children’s hospital, and then we saw those excruciatingly faked “tears”…

 

…that we could tell were faked because immediately upon cross examination she was back to the same old contemptuous, smirking Heard, here calling the Hicksville Trailer Palace manager’s testimony a “lie,” sneering “How would he know, he wasn’t there”…

 

 

…and then this angry response when reminded of Kate Moss’ rebuttal of Heard’s false claim that Depp had pushed Moss down some stairs:

 

 

Who is the real Amber Heard: the one with the laughably fake “tears,” or the one with the cruel, smug demeanor when confronted with her falsehoods and calls everyone who isn’t “for” her a liar?

While Heard’s “expert” psychological witnesses, like Dr. David Spiegel—whose testimony was both weird and irrelevant—and Dr. Dawn Hughes, who was clearly biased against men in general, were exposed as ridiculous on cross examination, Dr. Shannon Curry demonstrated that Heard faked her responses on tests and accused Hughes of helping her do it.  Curry diagnosed Heard as suffering from “borderline personality disorder” and “histrionic personality disorder,” described here: https://cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com/wellness/amber-heard-johnny-depp-personality-disorders-311661

Curry also testified that in her interviews with Heard and investigation of Heard’s prior behaviors, she found no evidence of PTSD, but rather someone who was fully in control of her life and was attempting to control others. This would include her sister Whitney, who another witness who identified herself as once being Whitney’s closest friend and confidant, testified that she begged her not to allow herself to be used by Heard to enable her lies and abusive behavior even to her own person.

As Depp attorney Camille Vasquez made abundantly clear in her portion of closing arguments, witness after witness, like Moss, came forward to directly refute Heard’s false testimony—people who Heard apparently believed would never be heard to contradict her lies. The histrionic Heard apparently told wild stories to her friends and they probably told her to "speak out" without thinking of the consequences if her stories were fabrications. Obviously she believed that the MeToo movement protected her from her lies. But not one single witness claimed to have seen Depp strike Heard, only those who stated they saw Heard herself strike Depp. Even a former Sea-Tac Airport employee came forward to testify to witnessing and attempting to stop Heard’s physical assault on her partner at the time--thus proving she had perjured herself on the stand when she claimed this incident was a "lie" too.

The fact is that Heard called everyone who testified against her a liar who just wanted to be a part of the "Johnny Depp Show," and she never admitted to doing anything wrong. She wouldn’t explain why Depp was well-liked and was never accused of abuse by any previous partner until he was in a relationship with her. It was testified by Depp's sister--who recalled that she confronted Heard about her behavior and was contemptuously rebuked--that his instinct to remove himself from Heard's presence when she was abusive was also how she recalled his defense mechanism when confronted by their mother's physically abusive behavior toward him; she recalled calling him "one-eyed Johnny" after he had to wear an eye patch after one incident of abuse. Yet despite this Depp purchased a home for his mother and kept her in comfort until the day she died.

And of course the networks and tabloids like the New York Post cherry-picked for the public only information that made Depp look bad without ever reporting that those incidents were for the most part rebutted as deliberate falsehoods—often by Heard’s own words heard on audio recordings. Although Depp did lose his prior UK libel case, that was because he had to prove that the publication in question deliberately used information that it knew to be false, choosing instead to believe Heard’s allegations without investigating them first. But in the present case, the court was obliged to look at the facts in context and in their totality.

So regardless of what those gender victim advocates who only see this case as a “threat” against women wish to believe, people who want the truth to win out and have been following the trial proceedings to discover that truth will see that truth is on Depp’s side. Even if the jury decides that he was not “defamed,” there will always be the assumption that society isn’t yet ready to accept that women can be guilty of domestic abuse against men, or that some people do lie out of pure vindictiveness. After all that was heard in court, that is the only explanation for a contrary verdict against Depp in this case.