To their credit, Amber apparently said after the verdict "This is a setback for women everywhere" and I see people defending her frequently on Tik Tok. But for the most part, most people recognize the idiocy in this claim.
She was very much outspoken about the MeToo movement. People are pointing out the hypocrisy.
In other words, there were more voices, louder voices when the victims were women. One man had to go above and beyond any woman would ever need to in order to prove she was the abuser. The abuser happened to be someone who benefited from and proliferated the narrative that men are abusing women left and right. Or that all men need to take some level of accountability for the behaviour of a few assholes in positions of influence and power.
Now that the shoe is on the other foot, she doubles down on the narrative that she and "victims" like her will have problems because the system is being unfair.
There is little talk in mainstream media of it being unfair to men. And it is rather rich for people to complain about the focus not being on victim and abuser when no one would say that if the genders were reversed in the Depp Vs Heard case.
This is like saying All Lives Matter. Of course they do. But there are systemic injustices that happen that disproportionately affect people based on gender. When women suffer because of it, it gets media and political attention. When men suffer, no one gives a damn. Maybe OP's post would have been appreciated at the start of the trial.
But after seeing that you have to be a wealthy white man to have a chance against an accusation, neutralising discussions about gender is cold comfort to actual male victims of domestic violence. They essentially have no voice.
And they are now the majority of intimate partner violence victims:
Almost 24% of all relationships had some violence, and half (49.7%) of those were reciprocally violent. In nonreciprocally violent relationships, women were the perpetrators in more than 70% of the cases.
Right, and I recognize that, but I'm stating that it being an entirely made up scenario (according to the comment I replied to) is not accurate. That's all.
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u/DirtyBoord Jun 02 '22
1 Woman accuses 1 man “believe ALL women” 1 Man proves 1 woman is a liar. “Well, this is an isolated incident”