Amber Heard-Johnny Depp trial does not undermine the MeToo movement | Letters
Why are some feminists buying into the narrative that the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial verdict is a? We have always known that there would be false allegations of abuse among genuine #MeToo disclosures. Some women lie, just as some men do. And we knew that women would continue not to be believed. #MeToo is about removing systemic barriers that prevent the abuse of women being treated seriously. It is about treating women as believable and their allegations as important.
Fighting that good fight is not helped, however, by some commentators’ willingness to skate over evidence that Heard herself was repeatedly violent towards Depp. Dismissing this with terms such as “imperfect victim” is troubling. And, ironically, it risks reinforcing toxic ideas about masculinity – take it like a man, stop being a baby – that anti-violence advocates deplore.
Hinsliff finishes by stating: “All women really ask of men – and, arguably, vice versa – is the chance to be heard without prejudice.” Heard was. The jury gave up six weeks of their lives to painstakingly go through the evidence in detail. It indicated that Heard was not telling the truth. This should not create a challenge for the
, if it cares about the truth, and not condoning the egregious defamation of an innocent person, who happens to be a man.
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