Article Memes and videos mocking Amber Heard expose hatred and distrust of women, experts say | The Independent

"Even some leading domestic abuse campaigners and feminists have relentlessly mocked Amber Heard, and created narratives of ‘real victim’ versus ‘not real victim’ which has scared many women,” she added.

This is fucking scary. You'd think anti-DV advocates would know that not all victims are sympathetic angels who just lie back and take it all the time

The representative added: “A domestic abuse case being used as entertainment for memes and jokes is likely to have a long-term impact on how seriously people take domestic abuse.

Amen. If Depp was really damaged by Heard, it would be tactless to joke about the case. His supporters can make jokes precisely because Depp is fine and was never in danger of being beaten to death by his 90 pound wife

If people really cared about male DV victims, they'd talk about Phil Hartman and Andrew Bagby. They chose Depp because they want to revel in destroying Heard's reputation and career

This whole thing has me so baffled, and the AH hate is real and all I see is "We love and support you Johnny!" shoved into my face literally everywhere online. I'm just about sick to death of celebrity anything at this point in my life, but the little I've seen of this whole thing, Johnny Depp comes off to me like a creepy, past his prime old dude whose life is a complete mess. I am finding the unabashed worship of him truly bizarre, regardless of AH's actions and reactions in this entire situation.

Oh I can't abide the "Team Johnny" assholes. "Why did she record him?", they ask. He recorded her too and they say nothing. By the by, when I was on the receiving end of a torrent of abuse from my mother, I recorded it just so she couldn't deny it the next morning. Because that's what drunken abusers do.

"Why is she dragging him through this?" they say. He is suing her. Not the other way around. I could go on, but you've all seen the absurd arguments they make for yourselves.

Dr Taylor explained thousands of women have got in touch with her about the case - noting the trial has fostered a “sense of disbelief”.

“Even some leading domestic abuse campaigners and feminists have relentlessly mocked Amber Heard, and created narratives of ‘real victim’ versus ‘not real victim’ which has scared many women,” she added.

“They look at Amber and think ‘but, I would cry like that too’ or ‘but I would probably be like that in court too’ - and realise that they don’t fit the ‘perfect victim’ stereotype either.”

this case should be thrown out of court, how is all the depp stans awful behaviour not considered to be affecting the case? this is akin to threatening a witness

Yes! So many MRA trolls online hating on AH when the trial is now swinging in her favor. They can’t and won’t see reason.

All tiktok mockery of AH I see comes from women. They're more than happy to demonstrate how much they are happy to side with a guy if he appears to be a victim in the case. Never in my life I saw so many men mocking another male abuser.

Yes to this. I hope other victims of domestic violence read this and aren’t bullied into silence.

The Independent? The same site, whose YouTube channel's live trial coverage picture has been a side-by-side of Heard, crying, angry, and hysterical, alongside Depp, with slick hair and a side eye and grin? That one? Anyone know what I’m talking about?

I haven’t been following the case closely at all, but I’ve skimmed an article or two and have watched a clip or two because it’s been unavoidable. I think this is an uncommon opinion here, but from what I can tell, Amber seems to be the (bigger?) liar. Or at least the worse party. (I don’t think Johnny is totally innocent either.) But there’s actual proof of her lies. She also reminds me a LOT of my toxic mother, and seeing the way she acts and talks is so icky and SO familiar to me. I just feel like I intimately know this type of person.

That being said, I think the constant, nonstop mockery online is terrible. Not exactly because of Amber’s own mental health and career, but because of the repercussions in regard to domestic abuse cases in general. People already didn’t/don’t always listen to women, and this is going to make it even worse.

The fact that this case is so public is incredibly strange to me. Why and how is this everyone’s business? Why are people so fucking passionate about Amber vs Johnny? But yeah, people’s misogyny is definitely jumping out— if feels like a hall pass for woman hating. Especially people attacking Depp’s daughter wtaf??

Are all these “we love you Johnny!!!” people long time Depp fans? Or are they overcompensating for the fact that they were so anti- Johnny a few years ago, no questions asked? People change sides so easily, it’s almost hilarious.

Ughhh. Also the fact that people seem to get WAY more up in arms about a man being wronged as opposed to a woman. Although, maybe it’s just because it’s Johnny Depp and he’s HUGE. Maybe if the roles were reversed people would be mocking him just as much. Idk anymore.

But people need to shut the fuck up with the public mockery. It’s helping absolutely fucking no one.

I dunno. Frankly, I'm tired of hearing about this because it seems like both sides are just ignoring the bad shit that's coming from the side they support. The Livestream have been giving me bits of information about what's going and from the looks of it, Amber is someone I would not sympathize with. She and her team are horrendously inconsistent, with minimal evidence to back their claims as well as out right changing the story around or straight up denying it when shown evidence of the opposite of what she said. I'm sure Depp isn't as innocent either, but his claims and stories at least are what he said based on evidence and claims.