Anyone in Ireland and listen to the Louise McSharry podcast? She and Cassie Delaney are completely of the view that this is all based in misogyny, men have the power, feminism has never been more important, etc. They say it has been proven that Depp physically abused Heard on multiple occasions- which, eh, the whole point of the outcome of the trial was that that was not proven at all?! Isn't this podcast further defaming him?
It just doesn't sit right with me that certain sections of the media seem incapable of viewing this case as an outlier. Even legal experts have said it's highly unusual in a number of respects. It's not indicative of the progress or lack thereof of any movement, it's not setting women back, it doesn't mean women won't be believed. Why must we view it in the context of all women everywhere?!
All it means is that in this particular case, Heard was not deemed to have told the truth, and therefore she had defamed Depp by saying he abused her. If you accept that that is the case, then surely the only logical conclusion is that it is Amber Heard setting women back (even though she isn't, because again, she's not representative of all women everywhere), not Johnny Depp for trying to clear his name.
The nicest thing I can say about people who view it this way is that their natural instinct is to believe women, because why would someone make up something so horrible? But you should really never sit on a jury if your default stance is to believe everything a woman says, purely because she is a woman. It doesn't mean you start out suspicious of her or default to *not* believing her, it just means you assess the facts dispassionately to determine whether something has been proven. I do believe that's what this jury did.