“We know that our legal system is biased in a lot of ways toward victims of gender-based violence, and a lot of them were very clearly on display in this trial,” one sociologist says.
“All of these attacks on women’s autonomy are connected,” said Nicole Bedera, a sociologist who studies sexual violence. “This is a hard moment. There is no way around it. It does feel like women are losing rights that previously felt pretty well-established.”
With Heard and Depp’s case, progress that may have been made in encouraging domestic violence survivors to speak may now be on pause, Bedera said. Even before the verdict, the way Heard had been portrayed in social media throughout the trial appeared to some to represent a backlash to the progress made by #MeToo.over the weekend, it ripped into critics who it said mischaracterized the #MeToo movement during the trial.
Before the verdict, survivors who supported Heard said they would, in some cases, refrain from posting much about the case on social media out of fear of being attacked by Depp’s fans. Hunt said that after she tweeted her concerns about the verdict, she began getting backlash.“After seeing the way that social media turned and the public turned on Amber Heard, this was a stoning. This was a modern-day stoning,” Hunt said.
It is rare to lie about being a victim of domestic violence, said Twahna P. Harris, the founder, CEO and executive director of The Butterfly Society, a nonprofit domestic violence organization in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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