“…So, to recap: a man has emerged out of a trial concerning allegations of domestic abuse with his career not just intact, but flourishing. The woman at the centre of the case, however, has ended up fleeing the country after vicious abuse. Sounds like an incredibly familiar story, doesn’t it? Sounds like a story as old as time.
…Let’s not forget that the actor lost a UK libel case against the Sun in 2020 after the newspaper described him as a ‘wife beater.’ (The UK, by the way, is famously plaintiff-friendly in cases of defamation.) In the ruling, the judge, Mr Justice Nicol, said: ‘I have found that the great majority of alleged assaults of Ms Heard by Mr Depp have been proved to the civil standard.’
…Depp may have won his US lawsuit but who can forget the misogyny that ran through it? Who can forget the viciousness of the text message he sent to a friend in 2013, joking about killing Heard? ‘Let’s burn Amber,’ he wrote in that text. ‘Let’s drown her before we burn her!!! I will f–k her burnt corpse afterwards to make sure she’s dead.’ This wasn’t some one-off joke made in bad taste; Depp routinely described women in crude, misogynistic terms. In texts that were shown to jurors, Depp described women as ‘sluts’ and ‘fat ugly whores.’ In one text he called Heard a ‘filthy whore’ and said he’d ‘smack the ugly cunt around’ before he let her in; in another, he described his former partner Vanessa Paradis as a ‘withering cunt.’ And then there was the time he referred to Heard as a ‘gold-digging, low-level, dime-a-dozen, mushy, pointless, dangling, overused flappy fish market.’
…Do you think that if a woman had made all those comments a perfume company would be throwing money at her? I’ve got a funny feeling the answer is no.
…As we’ve seen time and time again, misogyny and allegations of abuse are rarely a detriment to a man’s career. Allegations of sexual misconduct didn’t stop Clarence Thomas or Brett Kavanaugh from becoming Supreme Court justices. They didn’t stop Donald Trump from becoming president – indeed they may have even helped. During E Jean Carroll’s defamation trial against Trump she was asked why she hadn’t gone public with her allegations when Trump first ran for president. ‘I noticed that the more women who came forward to accuse him, the better he did in the polls,’ she answered. Misogyny rarely ruins a man’s career; often it supercharges it.”
A year later and I’ll never forgive the brain dead misogynists who sided with the most obvious wife beater in the world and acted like they were committing an act of gender equality and social justice by doing it. There is nothing new or brave about believing women are evil, maniacal bitches who lie about abuse or vehemently defending men who commit violence against women
And he said this at Cannes:
Depp told the BBC people should look at their own family members before they judge him.
"I suggest before people start pointing fingers and making judgement on others that they have no idea about, I would say, everybody, take one day off of work, stay at home, start your investigation of everyone in your family," he added.
"Start with your father. Look way back. Dad always been just a wonderful guy, has he? Your uncles, look at your brothers. Look around you first before you start passing judgement on someone that you have no idea what that person has been through, who they are."
His "defense" is not that he didn't do it but that all men do it.
Joke's on you, Johnny, I hope the abusive men in my family rot in hell, too <3
Sorry not sorry but it's absolutely incredible how every time women open their mouths about the reality of misogyny, men and women who think internalizing misogyny will save them go "NOT ALL MEN!!!!"
And here's one of the most famous wife beaters in the world going "don't judge me for beating my ex-wife because basically all men do it." It reminds me of men saying that Trump bragging about sexual assault is locker room talk and all men do it.
Imagine if you'd defended this guy last year and then he just comes out and says this lmfao 🤡
