Patricia Grisafi
It’s been a long two weeks for women. The Supreme Court took away the federal right to abortion, creating chaos and fear across the country. As women struggle to figure out what to do next and how to secure their right to reproductive health, folks on social media are also taking time to talk about other issues that affect women — such as domestic violence. After all, women who are pregnant are at a greater risk for abuse by their partners. According to March of Dimes, domestic violence can increase during pregnancy.
A Twitter user named Kamilla took the time to revisit the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard defamation trial and create a thread of the most damning evidence against Depp, which she says was “suppressed or ignored by social media.”
“Since we’re all feminists again, can we revisit the Depp v Heard case?” she asked.
“Johnny sent texts about wanting to rape, drown, burn, and ‘smack around’ Amber before they even got married,” she writes.
“Johnny’s biggest accusation against Amber is that she cut his finger off, but here he is on tape (in a private conversation with amber) saying, ‘I’m talking about Australia the day that I chopped my finger off.'”
“Two months after Amber filed for divorce, they had a meeting in which Johnny brought a knife with him and threatened to self harm. He tells Amber to cut him or that he will do it himself, she refuses.”
Kamilla also points out, “Amber describes an assault in which Johnny held her down on a counter top and her arms were cut with glass, you can see the scars of those gashes on several red carpet and paparazzi pics after the alleged assault.”
“Amber has years of time stamped pictures documenting the abuse, which all line up with the incidents of physical violence she describes. All proven by metadata. Abuse victims are told to document their injuries, Amber did.”
Speaking of how Depp fans framed the narrative as a “conspiracy theory,” Kamilla noted how “absurd” that was. “And people know that. That’s why abusers are so excited about this, because they’re seeing one of them get away with abuse by using a victim’s reactive violence to make themself a victim.”
Many people might be saying, “get over this” but honestly, it’s just another example of how the country enables abusive men and further tries to discredit women when they stand up to violence and try to assert their personhood. We’re in a backlash, and this is only one example of how a backlash manifests.
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