The juror's appraisals of Amber Heard and Johnny Depp's 'sincerity' echo familiar ways of delegitimizing women who say they've been harmed.
, president of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, told Jezebel in May. “It’s so complex, and that term, ‘mutual abuse,’ is very harmful.”The term “does not work when we’re talking about domestic violence,” she added, because “there is always someone who is the primary aggressor.”
More than that, accepting the idea of “mutual abuse” often puts victims in jail. When abuse escalates to a point where victims respond with violent resistance or self-defense, they’re often arrested or threatened with arrest when law enforcement gets involve. A 2015 found that that was the experience of nearly 25% of women who called the police to report intimate partner violence.divorce settlement as one of the reasons the jury didn’t find her credible. Even if her description of the donation was deceptive, that’s beside the point. Heard should not have to be perfect to avoid being torn apart and dehumanized on top of the abuse her ex-husband had already allegedly subjected her to.
The evidence Heard provided to demonstrate that she had been physically and emotionally harmed by Depp—witness accounts, photos of injuries, text messages, threatening audio—is significantly more than what the vast majority of victims could even dream of providing, short of wearing a body camera at all times. But in theHis admission shows that there’s no possible threshold of evidence that a victim can provide and know they’ll be believed.
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