it’s “kill your rapist’ when it’s a sticker you can sell on etsy but "she’s the abuser actually” when it’s real life

Actually want to do a case study on the overlap of Gen Zers who turned “Woody Allen die!!!” into a quirky mantra but the second a woman actually puts her hands on an abuser she’s #toxic and #problematic.

I probably wouldn’t be posting about any of this if it weren’t for the alarming reaction I’m seeing from people online and in real life. Again, if this was your run-of-the-mill Hollywood abuse trial, I would share my sympathies for Amber and my hatred for Johnny and move on with my life. But people are acting and speaking about this case and the woman involved in a way that warrants serious concern. I was at Publix last Thursday (my favorite place on the planet) and I’m standing in line while this lady is scanning frozen Super Pretzels I was buying for my grandma, and she goes “I wish I was at home right now so I could be listening to the Johnny Depp trial. That evil woman is going to get what’s coming to her. She is so vindictive” which was pretty tame compared to things I’ve seen online, but it’s like why the fuck is my grocer talking to me about the Johnny Depp trial? I literally don’t have any other social media aside from this and a defunct Instagram account and no matter how many times I select “not interested” on the dozens of recommended ‘Johnny laughing in court’ or ‘Johnny with sick kids in hospital’ videos, I keep having to scroll past them. And even then I wouldn’t really care except for the fact that when you open the comments section of those videos it is filled with the most vicious and brutal language I’ve seen directed towards a famous woman since…I can’t even think of a good previous example. This is just a really fucked up situation and it has nothing to do with intimate partner violence and everything to do with misogny and general cruelty.

It’s interesting that Johnny supporters are obsessed with new age wokeism and body positivity (“how dare Amber call him old and out of shape!”), on top of the fact that they skew more “left” on paper and tend to proudly display their LGBTQIA+ label of the week in their bios considering his rampant history of racism, homophobia, misogyny, pedophilia, etc. Like how do they justify his go-to insults being slurs, “fat ass”, “flabby ass Amber”, and “lesbian camp counselor”? Their refusal to acknowledge that one of the great loves of Johnny’s life was a high schooler he dated when he was pushing 30 is insane because you know this is the #FreeAaronTaylorJohnson crowd. All personal morals go out the window when your teenage centerfold’s image is at stake. What impresses me most about the cult of famous men is that they will consistently alienate and antagonize their target demographic and it only makes fans love them more. It’s some insane cracked out version of textbook negging and emotional manipulation. Some of these people will never stop seeing life in shades of varsity jackets and homecoming dances. To them it will always be: cruel handsome jock = misunderstood, his pretty blonde girlfriend = evil whore. 

It’s just crazy because I literally don’t actually care about celebrity goings-ons outside of like 4 people who I google weekly and keep tabs on but the fact that people are actively publicly laughing about, making light of, yas queening Johnny’s violent misogynistic texts and actions is so hard to stomach like I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about feminism (LDR interested in intergalactic pursuits etc) but people really hate women lol. Like a lot.

I hate how so many people on here and Twitter have been rolling their eyes at this situation and making snarky comments about how they “don’t care about celebrity tabloid drama” as if that’s all this is and not a blatant anti-feminist/#MeToo backlash… between this and the insane response to that Megan thee stallion interview we’re witnessing a wave of explicit misogyny reminiscent of the Obama backlash/Trump momentum in 2015/2016, and if you think you’re above acknowledging it because it involves “celebrities” (as if that’s the reason this blew up to the magnitude it has) then you might as well just shut up. If you don’t think the way Amber, Megan, et al. are being discussed has social and political implications then idk what to tell you.

Johnny Depp is OJ Simpson for they/thems neurodivergents who collect Funko pops