Prediction: Depp will get a new girlfriend. And in a few years’ time we will start hearing reports of abusive behavior that eerily resembles everything that Amber Heard described. Because he might have won in court, but he won’t be able to change who he is.
I have been deliberately ignoring this thing as much as possible, but I did reluctantly read a couple of what seemed to be sober and non-partisan summaries, and they painted a fairly unflattering picture of Depp.
The final ugliness in this whole sordid business is that hating Amber Heard is now part of the whole ‘conservative’ thought-package. Even the people who I used to think of as my ‘sane’ right-wing acquaintances have started reposting articles trashing Heard and praising Depp as some kind of hero for “men’s rights” (because we all know how much men have been suffering at the hands of all-powerful women and the feminist-industrial complex). I hadn’t realized how much the whole MeToo thing must have irked them, but I should have guessed that the backlash was coming.
