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At first I wasn’t particularly inclined to watch Matt Walsh’s documentary What is a Woman? I know the answer to that one already. Everybody does.

A woman is someone who isn’t allowed a final say on what a woman is. Pretending not to know this — that defining “woman” is incredibly complex and bewildering — is an age-old tactic deployed by non-women, usually in order to excuse treating us badly. 

Are women fully human? Do they have souls? What do women want? Far greater men than the host of The Matt Walsh Show — Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Sigmund Freud — have tried and failed to answer these questions (they could always have asked an actual woman, but first they’d have had to establish whether women can think, and then they’d have been back to square one).

As Matt himself says at the start of his film, “I like to make sense of things. Making sense of females is a whole other matter”, noting that “even astrophysicist Stephen Hawking” was “completely dumbfounded by women”.

Even astrophysicist Stephen Hawking! Honestly, ladies, if the author of A Brief History of Time hasn’t a clue what the hell we are, what hope do any of us have? 

The thankless nature of the task may be why the twenty-first century version of The Woman Question has now been allocated to those somewhat lower down the male intellect hierarchy: Edinburgh fringe comedians, disgraced MPs, right-wing shock jocks, Owen Jones and Billy Bragg. 

The proposal that a woman is anyone who defines themselves as a woman — and that no woman may say anyone isn’t a woman — has led to a particularly unimpressive stage of the debate, one which can only be described as the Summa Theologica meets incels r us. 

On the bright side, it’s clear the men are bloody loving it. If you’re left-wing, it’s your chance to put those TERFs in their place after years of having to “do feminism” as part of the right-side-of-history package deal. If you’re right-wing, it’s your opportunity to own all those feminists who suggested female bodies weren’t inferior and that pink, fluffy ladybrains were a myth. As Walsh declares of his film, “the movie makes utter fools of educated elite liberals”. I’m guessing that’s the point. 

I confess to having known very little about Matt Walsh up till now. “I’m a husband, I’m a father of four, I host a talk show, I give speeches, I write books,” he tells us by way of introduction. Hey, that sounds nice! Alas, a quick perusal of his twitter account shows that he’s the kind of renaissance man who tweets things like “feminism is an ugly and bitter ideology” and “rapists love abortion. It helps them cover up their crime”.

He’s also the kind of man who, should feminists show themselves to insufficiently appreciative of his recent woman-defining efforts, tells us we would “rather be a victim than win the fight” and that we “just want to sit on the sidelines and whine”. He’s been, like, getting death threats due to his challenge to contemporary gender mores! Would you risk that, eh, feminists? What’s anyone ever done to you, JK Rowling, you massive coward? 

I first wrote about the problematic nature of a gender identity-based definition of women over eight years ago. Other women, such as Julie Bindel, were sounding the alarm far earlier, and with little support. I know we’re supposed to be eternally grateful to Matt for stepping into the breach. What a gent! As the Onion once put it, Man Finally Put In Charge of Struggling Feminist Movement (admittedly it’s a man who thinks feminism is an ugly and bitter ideology but hey, we can’t have everything). 

In any case, I gave in and watched Matt’s film, just on the off-chance I’d missed something (more fool me; I read Gender Trouble on that basis, and look where that’s got me). There was little in What is a woman? that I didn’t already know from the work of feminists themselves, but that’s no reason to discount it. What’s wrong with alerting the normies to the excesses of trans activism too?

Perhaps the most difficult thing about conveying the absurdities of extreme trans activism to anyone who hasn’t yet encountered it, is that you either sound as though you’re making it up (usually in order to “stoke moral panic”) or the person to whom you’re talking concludes you must have missed some essential point (it would indeed be horrific if teenage girls were having their breasts removed due to social contagion and “progressive” institutions were cheering it on, therefore it can’t be happening. There must be something else afoot).

One of the great things about Walsh’s film is that he shows, first, that harmful things are indeed taking place, and second, that there is no hidden meaning behind them. The therapists, surgeons, academics and politicians to whom he speaks don’t suddenly pull back the curtain and reveal, yes, this is the reason why it isn’t total bollocks to claim that no one really knows what sex anyone is. That moment never comes (and believe me, I’d have loved it if it had. Being a Known TERF is a pain in the arse).

Instead they say things like “a chicken has an assigned gender” and that the word truth is “condescending and rude”. Ha! Aren’t liberals ridiculous? At one point Matt interviews someone who identifies as a wolf (or some other animal. I got bored and went to the kitchen for a biscuit at that point). What’s striking is that you sense his interviewees know on some level that they’re bullshitting. That’s why a number of them end the interview early, citing Walsh’s alleged bad faith as the reason why. 

There are some genuinely moving sections to the film, such as the interviews with female athletes cheated out of prizes by the inclusion of males in the girls’ categories. The contribution from Scott Newgent, a trans man deeply concerned about the impact of medical transition on young females, was incredibly engaging. I could have watched a whole film on Newgent alone, as someone clearly driven by both personal trauma and compassion for others. 

So why, overall, did the film leave a bad taste? Am I just an “ugly and bitter” feminist, peeved that a man has come along and claimed a number of feminist observations as his own? Am I a purist, unwilling to accept any support from anyone whose views don’t align precisely with mine? 

I don’t think so. The problem for me is that Walsh never acknowledges the role his own rigid beliefs play in creating and perpetuating the current situation. 

He finds countless people convinced that the only way to avoid imposing harmful social norms on individuals on the basis of their sexed bodies, is to pretend we can’t define said bodies or impute any social meaning to them at all. Yet he does nothing to suggest one shouldn’t impose said norms, or that his own pink/blue fantasies of girlhood and boyhood might be leading those who don’t conform to feel they are somehow “wrong”. 

“Give my son a BB gun and that’s just about all the emotional support he needs,” he muses over a children’s party scene, all boys in blue jeans, all girls pink princesses. “My daughter on the other hand … I’ve heard people say that there are no differences between male and female. Those people are idiots.”

Hmm. I have three children, all biologically male, all of whom have played with dolls houses and worn dresses. Two of them have Frozen-style long blonde hair and I’ve never bought any of them a toy gun (nor have any of them asked for one). 

According to Walsh’s own gender ideology, I’m on the slippery slope towards the erasure of any stable definition of “male” and “female” at all. This is the mirror image of the absurdities of trans activism. Both Walsh and the people he interviews conflate sex difference denialism with the rejection of gender stereotypes. He thinks we should suffer the stereotypes; they think we should suffer the surgery. Feminists believe we shouldn’t suffer either. 

There’s a particularly grim scene where Walsh attends a Women’s March, and delights in harassing female protestors who don’t want to give a precise definition of the word “woman”. Much as this reticence frustrates me, too, I know where it comes from. The polarised politics of the day has told these women they must choose between denying their sex and accepting an anti-choice, conservative vision of what it means to be an adult human female. It’s a vision Matt Walsh shares.

These women are caught between two forms of misogyny but to Walsh, it’s all “own the libs” fun and games. This man is not on our side, nor will he win over the women he lazily misrepresents as not knowing what’s good for them. 

At the end of the film, Matt returns home from his gender odyssey to his waiting Penelope. She is, of course, in the kitchen, and happens to be struggling with a pickle jar. 

“What is a woman?” he asks her.

“An adult human female — who needs help opening this!” she responds. Got it, ladies? He’ll defend our right to exist as a sex class, as long as we can all agree it’s the weaker one. 

In the end, I’m just so fed up with the machismo. Last year I spoke to one of the founders of Woman’s Place UK, who told me sex-based rights will ultimately be defended best by those in it for “the victory, not the glory”. The people, mainly women, often lesbians and women of colour, who do the dull, behind the scenes work of compiling data and challenging unfair practices one by one. The people who aren’t seeking to reimpose other, equally oppressive beliefs about sex and gender. 

It may be that What is a Woman? helps, by showing some still on the fence that the problem is real. Others, it may push in the other direction. Either way, women themselves won’t be thanked for their own hard work and significant risks. 

"White women" had to fight for the right to vote, and obtained it after black men did.

"White women" had to fight for abortion to be a right in the first place.

"White women" had to fight for marital rape to be juridically acknowlegned.

There can be no other logical, rational basis for women’s oppression; unless you think men were just being “mean” or something.  No, it was for a very real, profit-centered reason.  Men without families and heirs could not build empires (or even working farms) and without this centralized, religiously-sanctioned consolidation of the family, the state could not have evolved.  The state then effectively empowered men to be women’s keepers until very very recently in human history.  

THIS is the origin of women’s oppression.  

So yes, women’s oppression is because of vaginas.  Also: uteri, ovaries, ovum and menstrual cycles.  That is just a fact.  This is what got us consigned to the lower class, and our vulnerability during pregnancy and childbirth is historically what kept us weak and dependent on men.  And this is how patriarchy evolved.  

To write “vaginas” (or other female body-parts necessary for baby-making) out of the history of patriarchy and the evolution of the state, is flatly incorrect.  

It is also anti-feminist, since this account effectively erases the one thing women were allowed to do, the one exception to our limitations:   birthing and raising children.  Anything women dared to do, had to be somehow connected to that.  So, the first women artists and writers were women who painted their children’s portraits; sang their kids songs or made up stories and poems for them; knitted/crocheted/sewed their clothes, created pottery for the family to eat on, etc.  Women’s creativity was harshly limited to domesticity like this, and yet, we found ways to express ourselves regardless.  It is a story of SURVIVAL.  To explain to our daughters (as Virginia Woolf did) why there is no female Shakespeare or Chaucer, is to go back to….. VAGINA.  We were only allowed to have babies and failing that, teach or take care of some other woman’s babies.  Period.  

Because yes, that is the historical reason we were oppressed.  BODIES.  VAGINAS.

I do not want to oppress trans women, but I do not want to erase the history of the SOURCE of women’s oppression.   In your comments and in the comments of certain other Tumblr trans women, I see a continuous attempt to do that.  

Why?  

It is deliberately anti-feminist and seeks to erase women’s history.

Like… real feminists and LGB activists fought tooth and nail to get these privileged, western (and often white) children easy access to birth control pills, condoms, abortions, divorce, custody, maternity healthcare, gay marriage, single/gay couple adoption and economical independence, plus legal bans for other bodily autonomy violations such as FGM, rape, sex trafficking, pedophilia, arranged marriages and child marriages. All those because they were linked to women’s bodies and reproductive capabilities.

And now TRAs and libfems have enjoyed these privileges long enough to start stupidly believing that misogyny exists because it just, for no apparent reason, targets certain disembodied internet identities and zodiac personality types.

The reason for oppression is not body parts, it is how people and societies see, read, judge and treat these body parts. Having a hysterectomy is not a get out of misogyny based oppression card. Being infertile is not misogyny based oppression card. Neither is not having your period, be it due to excessive sports, eating disorder or any other kind of reason. Reducing women to their bodies and productive abilities is taking away spotlight from all the fates of women that could not be utilized as “means of production” and the particular kind of misogyny these women faced and face.

If we say women are adult human females and are oppressed for their reproductive abilities, how is that parroting the oppressor’s definition of womanhood? There is nothing within misogyny that doesn’t stem from this basic dynamic, and saying it exists doesn’t reduce women into anything, it reveals the link between all misogynistic acts that might otherwise seem just coincidentally happening to the same group of people.

If I say black people are oppressed for the amount of melanin their skin produces, do I parrot a racist’s definition of black people? Do I imply that there’s nothing more to these people other than their blackness?

If I say people in wheelchairs are oppressed for them not being able to use their lower body the same way other people on average can, do I parrot an ableist’s definition of people in wheelchairs? Do I imply that there’s nothing more to these people other than their disability?

Why do you think that saying women are adult human females means I say they’re vaginas and nothing more? Doesn’t that say a lot more about how you view females, deeming them somehow “reduced”, or less than actual people? Why can’t women be adult human females AND people? Unique complex human beings with their unique personalities, desires, upbringing, social class, ways of moving, talking, thinking and behaving, all while being females?

And which part of the latter - them being complex and unique individuals - separate them from men, by the way? If our biology (the way our reproductive parts are being organized) isn’t what brings us together as a class of people, what exactly does? Not all women understand what you mean with the word identity. Not all women like or enjoy being women. Within the class of women, there is more variability in personalities, life choices, fashion choices, worldviews and behavioral characteristics than there is between men and women, on average, and the same applies for men. When we remove the reproductive structures (and the patriarchal socialization) from the picture, there is nothing that truly separates us from men.

And that’s what actual feminism is about. Recognizing that while we DO HAVE female bodies, we are not less human than men. Similar to how homosexuals said that while they indeed ARE attracted to their own sex, they refuse to believe they’re less human than heterosexuals. Or how black people said that while they indeed DO HAVE darker skin color, they refuse to believe they’re less human than white people. The fact that they talk about those qualities and categorize themselves via them doesn’t somehow mean that that’s ALL they are.

“Discovered to be a woman, Pauline Cox, age 26, of Dallas, Texas, who had been masquerading as a man for the past five years, stated that she is reluctant to return to her feminine attire again. She prefers living as ‘a man’ so that she can receive a higher scale of pay.”

I'm sorry but the sex focused radical feminism is the only truly relevant feminism in the 21st century for women.

Women's reproductive capability (uterus): Natalism is used by the state/ruling class to produce progeny to populate a nation. This has led to control of women to ensure that men have ways to continue their family lines. In reverse, when a minority or oppressed group is targetted it usually results in forced sterilisation of the women. Outside of using them out of utility, men are both fascinated (sexually) and revulsed of the female form, periods are seen as unclean or even cursed - many cultures and religions condemn it. Outcomes: Period huts, forced rape, forced sterilization, period stigma/isolation, anti-abortion, forced abortion, surrogacy, lack of maternity/leave, economic equality or poverty due to job discrimination around pregnancy and child rearing. Housewife life with kids leaving women economically vulnerable, infertile women being shunned, childless women being pressured into "biological clock" marriages.

Women's sexuality (sexual characteristics, vagina) Women are used as decoration or sexual entertainment for men, heterosexual men see women as objects to sexually possess and control. This can lead to violence, trafficking and rape. Men in competition with other men due to the patriarchy, and see their own worth and status in society based on how many women they have dominated or acquired, men who feel they "own" women try to control their sexuality and limit how many partners she has had. They also see that women should be "conquered" and consider innocent/virgin women to be non-threatening object to obtain compared to a woman with experience (as not to compare his experience with another man's) - this also leads to higher than average paedophilic tendencies towards teenage (or younger) girls, which makes women more likely to be victims of paedophilia. On the flip side, other men can also be exasperated by women not "putting out", and shame pressure women into giving unto them. Others even have a Madonna/Whore complex. Men are also consuming more pornography than ever. Our media has increased use of photoshop/editing and models who are pressured to have surgery - this has given rise to unrealistic body standards which has been consumed on social media which has caused generations of women to develop with body dysmorphia and/or eating disorders. Outcomes: Increasingly rigid media driven beauty standards, infantilization sexuality, kink, pornography, human sex trafficking, higher female child abuse rates, prostitution, incel shootings, sexual abuse and harassment, rape, marriage, virginity culture, prude shaming, double standards on "body counts", FGM.

In real life, high school is all about boys torturing girls.

I can count the girls who were unkind to me on my hands. I remember their names, exactly what they said and did and when.

But from fourth grade until eleventh grade (non-americans: age 10 to 17ish), school was a constant experience of sexual assault and harassment. Every single day. I remember a few names and faces - the most frequent or most egregious perpetrators. But most of them blur together. I can't even pick out single events. Boys snapping my bra straps, unhooking my bra when they sat behind me in class, slapping my ass, putting their hands up my skirts, groping, touching, hurting. Making comments about my breasts, my ass, my hips, my clothes, my legs, my face. I particularly remember one young man who had a tendency to pull out his iPod Touch, watch porn, and jerk off in class or in the cafeteria right next to me.

It's also worth pointing out... The girls who were mean to me were mostly academic/athletic/social rivals. These were girls I was competing with for something. Every nasty remark, social snub, or rumor spread was for a purpose. They were mean for a reason.

I have listened to "trans women". I spent the vast majority of my undergrad calling myself queer, even identified as non-binary, I was employed in the lgbt center on campus, I was the president and co-president of the "gsa" group on campus, I attended the trans group every week, I spent countless hours doing presentations on how to be a good ally to gay and trans people. I have a degree in women and gender studies. I was there, I was you, I screamed trans women are women, I organized a march for tdor.

I watched as our resources shifted. As the presentations I was required to do shifted. As my classes changed. I watched as I couldn't complain about my period with several other fellow natal women in the lgbt center without being taken aside and scolded after a TIM stormed off and complained to our director. I watched as our groups shifted our focus to trans people, who got so many protections on campus meanwhile I was being harassed in my dorms for being a lesbian.

I watched as I could no longer say "woman" in my women studies courses because it was 'exclusionary' even when we were discussing female genital mutilation. I watched as my fellow lesbians were told we were equivalent to nazis for not interacting with penis. I among at least 4 other women, both lesbian and bisexual, were sexually harassed by a TIM in the lgbt center and when we complained it was ignored. I listened to the "transwomen" there make fun of natal women. Hear how they talk about women, about how their hormones make them stupid, how they think it's so sexy to be catcalled. I watched as I began to see the same conversation therapy rhetoric I saw in the church.

I watched these people reduce womanhood to stereotypes. To makeup. To sitting with legs crossed. To a tone of voice. To "femme people".

I heard them talk about women like men do. That's why I am the way I am.

I watched a man I know with a lesbian fetish identify as nonbinary to try and date me and a friend of mine.

I have talked to "trans women"

I was friends with "trans women"

One day, I decided I was done watching. I was done standing by.

I will not liken them to women. Because they aren't. I will not feed rhe narcissism. I will not play into the idea that men can be women. Because they can't. They will never be. They will always see womanhood as a series of stereotypes. As a fetish. As a fun game. As nothing but parts.

Womens rights are being deteriorated. I will not stand by and watch.

It's not "decency" to use the pronouns they demand we use, it's bullshit, it's lies, and I will not feed into it.

Not when I am watching my rights and others be broken down and widdled away as a direct result of this "movement".

I am the way I am as a direct result of listening to "trans women".

VIOLENCE/ABUSE:

Heard has proven 12 out of 14 incidents of abuse by Depp “to the civil standard.

Texts from Depp’s assistant shows his assistant saying Depp kicked Heard; “He was appalled. When I told him he kicked you, he cried…It was disgusting. And he knows it.”

Depp is on audio telling Amber Heard to cut him. He continues to tell her to cut him while wielding a knife, and she is heard begging him to put the knife down.

Texts from Depp to Paul Bettany joke about murdering Amber and raping her dead body. 

Texts about him talking about smacking Amber Heard around.

Audio reveals Depp shouting and calling Heard a “fat ass” a “cunt” and Heard telling him to put his cigarettes out on someone else.

“‘Her lip was swollen and busted up a bit, and she also had these horrible cuts on her arms – like gashes … The she told me that the cuts on her arms were from the broken glass that was from him throwing bottles and smashing glasses all over the place.’” (Heard’s sister, Whitney). 

“Ms Pennington said that she could see gashes on Ms Heard’s arms from her wrists to her elbows. In cross-examination Ms Pennington said that one arm was cut worse than the other. Ms Heard told Ms Pennington that the soles of her feet were also cut. Ms Heard said that Mr Depp had thrown a bottle at her; there had been broken glass all over the ground which was how she had cut her feet.“

Johnny destroying Heard’s closet: “Good morning sir … So …. um Johnny destroyed Amber’s closet”.  (page 82)

“As Ms Lloyd said, ‘We had to restrain both of them.’” Depp supposedly instigated the violence, Heard retaliated. (page 81/82)

Diary entry by Heard talks about Depp strangling her and hitting her in the head: “Our fight was terrible. J [Mr Depp] finally at one point found himself with his shirt wrapped around my neck… He hit me several times. I don’t even know how I wound up with this huge rather annoying knot on the back of my head?” (page 84)

Depp refers to the fight on the train as getting “physical”: ‘..other than the fact that we had a fight on the train, which was physical…’ (page 83)

Text message from Heard to her publicist; “ I’m really bruised and might have a black eye or two tmrw – same with my nose. Nurse on the way to make sure I don’t have concussion.” There are also texts to her psychotherapist saying it’s an ‘emergency’ and a text to a friend in which she says “J beat me up pretty good”. (page 87)

Photos of Heard bruised “which the metadata shows were taken on the morning and afternoon of 16th December 2015”. (page 88)

Makeup artist recalls having to cover up bruising on Heard’s nose, eyes, and her lip injury with red lipstick. (page 89)

Although Depp claims Heard hit him at a party in 2016, the photos of injury Depp claims happened in 2016, where found to be from 2015: “This version of the picture has a date stamp of 23rd March 2015. It could not have been taken after the birthday party on 21st April 2016.” The photo instead was from a previous occasion in which Ms Heard already admitted that she punched Mr Depp. (page 99)

Despite police claims, photos of Heard injuries with meta data show she did sustain injuries by Depp: “There are the photographs. The metadata is not disputed and shows that one of the photographs of Ms Heard’s face was taken before the first pair of police officers arrived.” They also show damage to the apartment. (page 107)

Depp texted Bettany that he “pounded and displayed ugly colors to Amber on a recent journey”.

HEARD’s CLAIMS: 

Heard has previously admitted to hitting Johnny and throwing things at him to defend herself in her original 7hr deposition. (2016)

“She admitted that in the course of this argument, she struck Mr Depp in order, she said, to protect Whitney.” (page 80)

In regards to the donations: “Amber has already been responsible for seven figures in donations to charitable causes and intends to continue to contribute and eventually fulfill her pledge. However, Amber has been delayed in that goal because Mr. Depp filed a lawsuit against her, and consequently, she has been forced to spend millions of dollars defending Mr. Depp’s false accusations against her.”   

“Please tell people it was a fair fight and see what the jury and judge think. Tell the world, Johnny. Tell them, Johnny Depp. I, Johnny Depp, …. man*, I’m-I’m a victim too of domestic violence and I, y’know, it’s a fair fight and see how many people believe or side with you”.

[*NOTE: Heard is using “man” as in “oh, man”, not in reference to Depp’s gender.]

“Full audio shows Heard talking about how their relationship is not “fair fight”, he scoffs and replies “it doesn’t matter” and “fair fight, my ass”, Heard responds “exactly” and that Depp is “bigger and stronger”. Heard goes on to talk about why she felt the need to call 911 after he threw the phone at her face and laid his hands on her.

THE FINGER CLAIM:

Deuters (Depp’s friend) admitting that the story of Depp’s injury was a public relations disaster and saying: ‘Just make sure you say you aren’t sure how he hurt his hand. (page 75)

Depp’s texts to his doctor states he cut his own finger off. Another text is found of Depp again saying he cut his own finger off. Doctor’s notes show the injury is more suggestive of a crushing mechanism. In fact, Depp told three separate people that he cut his own finger off.

Depp heard on tape stating, “I’m talking about Australia. The day I chopped my finger off”.

“Nor did Mr Depp say that Ms Heard had been responsible for the injury to his finger in either of his two texts to sister Christi on 8th March 2015.” (page 78)

FECES PRANK/CLAIM:

Heard did not defecate in Depp’s bed and the previous judge ruled it unlikely. The judge in the previous case ruled it likely it were the dogs, as there was evidence it “had an incomplete mastery of her bowels.”

“Ms. Heard gave evidence that Boo had in the past defecated on the bed and that she herself had cleaned it up rather than leave that task to Ms Vargas.” (page 100)

Furthermore, Depp is on text’s with his assistant’s suggesting to him to defecate and tell Amber it was the dogs as a prank

DRUGS/ALCOHOL:

Texts from Depp’s daughter (Lily-Rose Depp) and Depp himself show that Amber helped him stay sober. Depp talking to his mother-in-law, Paige Heard about Amber helping him.

Texts from Heard and Lily-Rose Depp show the two had an amicable relationship. 

Texts show Depp’s constant use of alcohol and drugs, mentioning his “blackouts”. More texts here, and here. Texts show Depp referring to his addiction as the “Monster”, even to Elton John who was helping him with his sobriety. 

An audio shows Depp telling Heard he will never get clean or sober.  Amber can be heard crying. Another audio shows Heard crying and saying, “All the coke you’ve done today, and all the booze you’ve drunk today, has it helped us?”

PREVIOUS LIBEL CASE:

As stated, the previous judge ruled Heard has proven 12 out of 14 incidents of abuse.

“For all of these reasons I accept that the Defendants have shown that the words they published were substantially true in the meanings I have held them to bear. The Claimant has not succeeded in his action for libel.” (2020)

Depp’s previous lawyer, Adam Waldman was accused of dishonesty, and was thrown off the case for leaking confidential information to the press and social media which was protected via court order. 

Depp’s team was accused of using bots to influence opinion of social media.  Bot Sentinel, a group that uses artificial intelligence to detect and track troll bots & suspect Twitter accounts, found the actress “had been a victim of an ongoing targeted harassment and smear campaign”. 

(Waldman is a long-time US lobbyist for Russian oligarchs.) 

OTHER OPINIONS/LINKS:

Depp in texts talking about wanting to cause “global humiliation” for Heard.

Depp defending Roman Polanski: “Roman is not a predator. He’s 75 or 76 years old. He has got two beautiful kids, he has got a wife that he has been with for a long, long time. He is not out on the street.”

Depp is close friends with Marilyn Manson, who has his own abuse allegations against him, and who is also suing his victims for defamation. 

PREV. LEGAL ISSUES & CAREER:

Depp was arrested in 1989 for assaulting a security guard after the police were called to end a loud party at his hotel room.

He was also arrested in New York City in 1994 after damaging a hotel room he was staying in with Kate Moss.

Depp brawling with the paparazzi. 

In 2018, Depp assaulting crew member on the set of City of Lies.

In 2018, two of Depp’s former bodyguards sued him for unpaid fees and unsafe working conditions. The suit was settled in 2019.

Depp was constantly late and drunk on the set of Pirates of the Caribbean. 

Depp will also supposedly receive his full salary for the third Fantastic Beasts movie, despite filming only one scene for it and being asked to leave the project.

Texts show that Depp told Heard she was not to take roles, stating “No goddamn meetings. No movies”. 

Depp admits to getting, “irrational”, “crazy”, and “jealous” when Heard is filming.

Charges against Heard for bringing her dogs to Australia were dropped; it was a supposed mix-up with her staff being dismissed who were to do the paperwork. Heard apologised, and admitted to her wrongdoing, pleading guilty.  

Heard sought a restraining order from Depp in 2016. She also sought an order requiring Depp to attend 52 weeks of anger management courses. (page 19)

PREVIOUS RELATIONSHIPS: 

Depp started dating Winona Ryder when she was a minor, and 17 years old to his 25 years. (Depp is 23 years older than Heard.)

Depp called his ex-wife a “French extortionist ex-cunt” and a “withering whore”. 

Heard was granted a restraining order against Depp. 

Depp was the one to originally ask Amber to settle outside of court, and the couple issued a statement that, “Neither party has made false accusations for financial gain.”

Heard’s previous girlfriend has come to Heard’s defence, saying that Heard never abused her and that the police officers who claimed it had misogynistic and homophobic attitudes once they realised Heard and her were partners.

Ellen Barkin, Depp’s ex, testified Depp threw a wine bottle at her during an argument between Depp and his assistant. (page 43)

DEPP’S JEALOUSY:

Depp has used abusive language towards Heard for her sexuality and her past relationship with women, calling her a “lesbian camp counsellor”. He was also jealous of Amber’s female ex, Tasya van Ree, calling her “Van Pee”, he also “tried to set fire to another of Ms van Ree’s paintings”.

In fact, Depp’s homophobia and jealousy didn’t stop there, he then attacked Heard’s friend, iO Tillet Wright, by misgendering him and mocking his transition, calling him a “dike bitch” and “wanting to be a man now”.

Depp also makes unfavourable comments about Heard’s relationship with Elon Musk: “But she sucked Mollusk’s [I assume a reference to Elon Musk] crooked dick”. (page 126)

He also accused her of having an affair with Billy Bob Thornton, writing about it in graffiti. (page 76)

THE CURRENT TRIAL:

The trial is a not a criminal trial, but a defamation trial. Depp is suggesting Heard ruined his reputation in her article about domestic violence, despite not naming him in it. In fact, Depp was requested to leave the project after he lost his libel case.

Depp is suing Heard for $50 million, over 7x the amount they originally settled together. Heard originally attempted to get the suit moved to California and dismissed, and only filed a counterclaim when it was refused.

Virginia has less strict anti-SLAPP laws and as a result has drawn questionable legal cases in recent years. SLAPP lawsuits are also known as intimidation lawsuits and often used to censor, intimidate and silence critics by burdening victims with the cost of legal defence until they abandon their criticism.

Depp fans are heavily affecting the way social media is reacting to the trial, by indulging in edits on social media, fabrications of events, pseudoscience.

Heard has had to hire more security. Some Depp fans have attempted to chase vehicles with Heard and her team inside as they return home from the courthouse. 

One of Depp’s witnesses (Gina Deuters) was dismissed from the stand after admitting to watching the trial online.

Depp fans were barred from the court for violent threats against Heard. Most attendees are Depp-fans and have had to have been told, “Order in the court of I will have you removed”.

CONCLUSION:

The suit is not to determine whether Heard was violent, or whether their relationship was mutually toxic, but as to whether Heard lied in her op-ed, and there is plenty of evidence of Depp physically harming Heard multiple times; regardless of Heard’s retaliation, he has been proven to be a domestic abuser.

[DISCLAIMER: This post is purely in relevance to the Heard vs. Depp case, to fact-check claims made by Depp, his team, as well as opinions on social media. They are not meant to be a remission on Heard’s part of any potential wrongdoing.]

*Trans”woman” doctor who drugged and raped his patients *Trans”woman” who had over 80,000 “indecent” images of children

*Trans”woman” who raped a female inmate while incarcerated and had it covered up by the authorities *I can’t even begin to summarize this shit, its that bad

*Trans”woman” pedophile attacking a young girl in the women’s bathroom

*Trans”woman” literally beat a baby to death, article makes no mentions he’s actually a man

*Trans”woman” who sexually assaulted his own daughter when she was THREE YEARS OLD, now gets to go to female prison

*Man who tied a couple to an anchor and dropped them into the ocean now a “woman”

*Trans”woman” who molested multiple women insists he shouldn’t get charged because he’s just soooo dysphoric

*Trans”woman” the size of a monster truck rapes a woman hired to take care of him, article doesn’t even bother to mention the fact that he’s actually a man

*Yet another pedophile

*Again, can’t even summarize this one

*And another pedophile

*Oh, guess what… yet another pedophile

*Trans”woman” who claims the reason he’s a rapist is because of his dysphoria, so we should all, like, totally feel bad for him,,,

*To the surprise of no one, yet another pedophile

*Yet another pedophile

*And another

*Trans”woman” who raped two women outside of prison, moved to female prison, where he proceeds to rape the female inmates Want more? Just go to r/thisneverhappens on Reddit. Here, I’ll even make it easy for ya!: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisneverhappens/

There’s literally hundreds of links to sources of violent MEN- excuse me, trans”women” (and, hey! even a few trans”men” too!)- who have raped, assaulted, stalked, tortured, or murdered people. Its all right there at your fingertips. Many of these men are pedophiles. Many of them are now currently being transferred to female prisons. The ones that are already in female prisons are currently raping the vulnerable women- overwhelmingly women of color due to systemic, institutionalized racism- incarcerated with them. Again, keep in mind that this is literally the tip of the iceberg. This isn’t even .01% of all the violent men who call themselves women who are being moved into female prisons. Moving on. Here’s a fun link! It’s of you freaks attacking women for daring to attend a women’s only speech!: https://www.womenarehuman.com/police-do-nothing-as-rowdy-transgender-activists-terrorize-attendees-scream-kick-windows-at-womans-place-uk-meeting/ Or maybe some other relevant links, hmm?

*Woman of color fired from position as president of Planned Parenthood for believing in biological sex. She gets replaced by a white trans”woman”

*An article about the white man who replaced her as the president of Planned Parenthood

*This ones about women in a homeless shelter being forced to shower with a trans”woman” who continuously sexually harasses them

*Here’s one about two women- survivors of domestic violence- being kicked out of a homeless shelter for daring to be concerned about the behavior of the trans”woman” they were forced to share a room with

*A breastfeeding mother was arrested in front of her young children and detained for hours without access to feminine hygiene products, all because she “misgendered” a trans”woman” online

*This is a great writeup summarizing several different cases of trans”women” being fucking awful, to put it mildly

*A man was investigated by the police for retweeting a limerick about transgenderism

*A young mother was thrown out of a bar and has since been harassed by the owners, all because she wore a shirt that stated the dictionary definition of “woman”

*Woman of color was fired from her job because she wouldn’t call an entirely gender-conforming white man a “woman” (This is an older article but it’s the only one I had on my phone- she ended up losing her case in court. This is the woman that JK Rowling tweeted out her support to, in case she sounded familiar)

*Trans”woman” who binds his feet to be more “feminine”, appropriating the sex-based oppression Chinese women faced with foot binding

*A bomb threat called into a Woman’s Place meeting

*A teenage boy with Asperger’s has been arrested and fined for “misgendering” a trans”man” cop

*Another article about the boy with Asperger’s

*Trans”woman” elementary school teacher demanding to have access to his female STUDENT’S bathroom. He already has full access to the female staff’s bathroom. Now he wants in with the little girls, too. Mind you, NO staff is allowed into the students’ bathrooms

*Documented pedophile Johnathan “Jessica” Yaniv is back at his misogynistic, racist bullshit once again

*Trans people are less likely to get murdered than the average person, and trans victims who are murdered are actually predominantly killed in domestic disputes, meaning they are rarely the victims of hate crimes These two are about the same event, where a feminist speaker was attacked by a trans”woman”:

*A great writeup filled with other sources

*This one goes into the trans cult’s reaction to the attack, which was, unsurprisingly, horrendous _________________

These are a few tumblr posts about TIM predators and other various trans bullshit, which provide additional sources in their posts. Actually read the posts, and click the sources: *Here’s a link to a post about another prominent TRA whose a child molester

*Just a quick one about how trans”women” love to portray themselves as the victims, even when it couldn’t be further from the truth (again, sources provided in the post)

*This is an excellent post (containing links to sources that back it up) about how homosexuality is viewed across the globe, vs. how transgenderism is viewed

*Excellent writeup with sources about a trans”woman” lies and blatant smear campaign against academics

*This is a link to screenshots from the rape victims of trans”woman” and very prominent “trans rights activist” Eli Erlrick

*And this is a wordpress linking multiple, in-detail, accusations against Eli Erlrick

*Gag-worthy post full of god knows how many screenshots of countless trans”women” shown fetishizing little girls, being misogynistic, being lesbophobic, and being all around vile, disturbing, predatory, male freaks

*Just…ugh. Video of some trans bullshit at a Pride event, with a comment by someone who was actually there

*Screenshots of a discord for trans”women” where they openly talk about their vile rape fantasies

*Post with multiple links talking about a French radical feminist who denounced the misogyny of the trans cult, only for them to put up a banner (in reference to other French protests) that said “TERFs burn at the stake”

*Post with sources, screenshots, and translations, about a white trans”woman” who got a lesbian only event shut down at a lesbian bar in Tokyo

*An amazing post about how trans activism has severely harmed intersex people, and how it is the exact opposite of everything intersex activists have been working for

*This has a bunch of screenshots and links to a Black woman getting ripped to shreds by the trans cult, all because she dared to make art about her own female body

*Here’s a fun post that documents all the crimes that GameStop He-Ma’am from a while ago has committed before he decided he’s a laydee. Remember him? He’s the guy who screamed at a GameStop, frothing at the mouth like a rabid dog, all because the poor cashier accidently called him “sir”?

*And here’s the video of the GameStop bro to refresh your memory

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Now for some videos!

Trans activists assault woman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_d3ozhSE-U

Different video about the same assault above:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL26jtQXSJw

Trans activists shut down speech and interrupt moment of silence for the Pulse shooting victims:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wc6-HikFz4

Trans”woman” whose a known sexual predator, interrupts Rose McGowen’s speech, while Rose was speaking about her own experiences with rape in the movie industry:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW4X_IYDsJc

Trans”woman” attacks radical feminists in Argentina:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tsW0KxX92o

Here is a post that goes into more detail about what happens and translates a bit of what’s being said in the video above. It also provides screenshots from the woman who were there.

Trans”woman” attacks young Black girl:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0svl_5dFUOM

Trans activists harass women at the launch of the launch of the Vancouver Women’s Library:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ4sbNVkJnM

Trans activists setting off a smoke bomb in a London office building:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLrqP7RavlU

Trans activists harassing lesbian feminist at Dyke March:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nblXa665laY

Trans”woman” spits in man’s face, says “go ahead, punch a woman”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrJiIDP8Bhk

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Is all that not enough for you?

What about Cherno Biko, a trans”woman” and trans activist who raped a transman with the deliberate intent of impregnating her, and still got to speak at the Women’s March on Washington AFTER that information was made public.

What about Allison Woolbert, the director of a transgender human rights organization, and convicted pedophile

What about The Cotton Ceiling, a movement created by trans”women” that paints lesbians’ underwear as a bigoted barrier that needs to be broken through

What about trans”woman” Dana McCallum, twitter engineer, who raped his wife

What about trans”woman” Donna Perry, a serial killer who murdered women because he thought they weren’t “using their uteruses properly by being prostitutes”, and claimed that he was innocent now that he’s transition to a “woman”

What about Chad Severance Turner, prominent trans activist and pedophile

What about Dana Rivers, a trans”woman” and Camp Trans activist, who beat an interracial lesbian couple and their son to death because they turned him down

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Here’s some lovely screenshots of trans activists nailing dead rats and spray painting death threats on the doors and windows of a Vancouver Rape Relief women’s shelter! Also screenshots of a Black woman being told by Canadian politician trans”woman”, Morgane Ogre, that talking about her being a victim of female genital mutilation is Evil™️ because it hurts trans”women’s” feelings, some lovely misogynistic lynchings of “TERFs”, a trans”woman” bragging about his (male) privilege, and more! I’m sure you still think this is all totally warranted behavior, right???

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