Depp-Heard verdict's potential implications on the Me Too movement 

The verdict shows that 'no-one' should be able to lie and ruin anyone's life.

If Jodi wants to safeguard the MeToo movement it HAS to represent ALL victims because neither victim nor abuser has a gender. As women we have to admit that our own gender is capable of being abusive, even physically. Claims HAVE to be accompanied by truth.

This is crazy. Imagine someone accused you of abuse, someone who you have never even met, and you're guilty just because you're a man, and the accuser is a woman. It's insane.

I love how she tried to make Amber heard a victim of this “online hate machine” without addressing the fact, she lied numerous times. She contradicted herself numerous times. She admitted to being the abuser on audio. You keep hearing her talk about misogyny but it sounds like there’s a serious bias case of misandry. It’s disgusting how they try to spin this.

How hard is it to just understand that both men and women can be victims of abuse, why is justice for one not seen as justice for all 🤦🏽‍♀️

What Amber Heard did was a setback to REAL domestic violence victims. She sacrificed the progress of the MeToo movement for financial gain. Amber Heard was not attacked, she was not demonized. The public just saw what kind of vile person she is - someone who is willing to say and do anything for her own personal interest/gain and to ruin someone else’s life. SHE DESERVES THIS LOSS. Johnny Depp got the justice he more than deserves.

I'm happy to see a lot of actual DV victims speaking out and contradicting this asinine take. Jodi is a perfect demonstration of just how far people will go to perform the dizzying levels of mental gymnastics needed to overlook very clear and very obvious evidence that opposes their views. Notice how she minimizes JD's abuse at the hands of Amber by saying that it was "messy on both sides". Meanwhile, she is a lot less conciliatory when speaking about Amanda's abuse claims. In fact, for her to think that this is a setback for the MT indicates that she believes Amber. She isn't interested in the truth - she just wants validations for her beliefs.

It offends me when people suggest I didn't find Amber credible only because I was jumping on some social media bandwagon. I'm an IPV survivor who watched every minute of this trial and reached my own verdict in favor of JD. Unsubstantiated bias against this male victim if DV is what would harm the credibility of the "Me too" movement.

This lady's speech is very scary for everyone experiencing DV. Heard lied , period.

It’s strange it’s 2022 and no one believes men too can be abused what a SHAME!!!

We aren’t Johnny Depp “fans”. We watched the trial, saw the evidence and clearly saw she was lying 😂 Simple as that.

Wow. Just unbelievable. Obviously they have not watched the whole trial. Does any media do real fact check? No wonder Amber was so confident she was going to win. So proud of the jurors who weighed the overwhelming false evidence by Amber to give justice to the truth to Johnny.

"For whatever reason, Amber Heard was not believed. How will that affect the MeToo movement?" You cannot consider the question without going back to what you deliberately ignore---the reason she was not believed. She obviously lied, over and over and over. Those of us who watched the trial decided based on what we saw. Engage with the facts, first, then ask your questions.

"Tell the world, Johnny, tell them,'Johnny Depp, I, a man, I'm a victim of domestic violence'. And see how many people believe or side with you."

Im a survivor of physical abuse, and I watched this trial from beginning to end never missed a minute of it and the story you should be talking about is that violence and domestic abuse is simply the same no matter what gender. Heards team didn’t have the mounting evidence that Mr.Deeps team had, I became engrossed in this trial because I couldn’t believe that someone would lie about such a serious thing such as abuse. But as the trial went on it was clear that she lied. My partner is a man who Ive seen first hand suffer abuse from his ex girlfriend who has now turned around on social media accusing him of the emotional and physical violence she inflicted on him. Im a women and a survivor and barely made it out alive from my past relationship, which is why Im sickened and think it is a gross injustice to lie about a story that so many people -both men and women have endured. But yet you don’t report what truth Mr. Deeps team has brought to light, that is women abuse too and lying about it is wrong and is ethically immoral to those TRUE VICTIMS of domestic and sexual violence. Your reporting is completely biased. I was on Ms. Herds side at the beginning but over the course of the trial it was clear she was the violent and emotional ABUSER. It was a toxic relationship but she lied. I don’t understand why the conversation that ABUSE IS ABUSE NO MATTER GENDER. I am woman and don’t think this is a set back for #metoo this is different she took advantage of a movement and was held accountable for it. Let her and him move on and heal and let’s recreate the narrative that abuse to people is abuse period.

The “me too” celebrities are afraid to criticize any woman who makes allegations. The “believe every women” who steps forward has not aged well.

I am a woman, and I STAND WITH JOHNNY.

Undeniably there is definitely a lack of empathy for abused men. This has to change.

Imagine wanting someone who lied about SA with a broken bottle to be part of your movement. You can't just go about lying about people in the worst most filthy way and expect to walk away Scot free.. imagine she was accusing your son...brother.. dad.. you still got pity for it???

I am a woman... and I find it disgusting the idea of "believe all women". I understand hat ANYONE claiming abuse should be allowed to speak and have their voices served, regardless of gender. Her intro was on point for the fact that this was not a cut and dry #metoo case. Amber Heard was not the best poster child for that movement as she had her own dirt. And that was what ppl responded to. She came in picture playing victim, but never showed her own issues and p did not like it. Unfortunately in this age of SM their is massive group think, but if you want to use such waves of SM to support #metoo youu also need to accept the downside of it especially if your closet isn't clean.

When she claimed she was assaulted with a liquor bottle and then had no medical or law enforcement evidence to back it up, not to mention flew to the states the next day, she totally lost me. She's a liar, a manipulator, and she's abusive. I'm glad she lost.

This case was particularly different because looking at the evidence, SHE was the abuser.

If MeToo was truly, TRULY faithful, there would be as much talk about abuse towards men as much as it does with abuse towards women. It really made me scratch my head the way Ms. Kantor basically not acknowledging the abuse Johnny Depp went through. Yes, for all of the salaciousness of the trial, Johnny Depp was an abused man, so why wouldn't people want to see the trial, have views on the trial? Because it's not everyday or even every year we hear about a male celebrate, much less a man in general being abused by their female significant other.

So a man defending himself when a woman threatens his reputation with lies is being inconsiderate? That's ridiculous, this has nothing to do with the me too movement.

Wow, what a bitter woman. The ONLY “implication” is that if you lie about abuse you deserve the consequences.

An overwhelming amount of people believed Amber when she announced that she was donating the 7 million dollars. After watching her on camera, as someone who worked directly with survivors of DV, she did not convinced me that she was the victim in this case

It’s hilarious how hard these folks are trying to defend an abuser and liar

She was "not believed", Cuz she was caught lying and FALSELY accusing an innocent victim of her machinations, in front of the whole F world!

This woman is clueless. Amber can not tell the truth. Ever. It’s that simple She set it back

This case showed that men can be abused too and should come forward about it instead of staying silent. AH relied on Johnny being too ashamed to come forward, but he did and the public believed him. AH was proven to be a liar on the witness stand several times based on evidence and her own testimony and that of her friends. The jury couldn't believe anything she said.

Amber lied. Changed her testimony several times. This will help the *me too* movement also represent men who have been abused. It will prevent women from lying. Simple.

This is gaslighting facts. As a survivor Im appalled that she lied, it deeply concerns me that these so called professionals did not watch the trial. You can hear her lie literally on the witness stand. To agree with the jury and facts does not mean Im a FAN of Johnny Deep. It means Domestic Violence affects EVERYONE. I don’t agree with bullying anyone -let’s address this but please media address the TRUTH she lied. That affects DV survivors like myself and others that want to come out w their truth. Amber Heard is doing more damage to the real story that the media just wont bring to light, that DV has no gender and affects woman, men and people of ALL backgrounds and why we have to start shifting our perspective on what abuse looks like. Please her PR team just face the truth and have her stop lying. It was a toxic relationship they both did awful things to one another-but the facts showed throughout the trial that she was the AGGRESSOR. Not Johnny Deep that is the difference and why the JURY found her guilty.

3 things to recognize in this case: 1. People saying this is too public and had became a circus to humiliate Heard - WHEN - it was Heard that wrote a defamatory op-ed about Johnny and tweeted that she did in fact wrote it AFTER Johnny had already paid her in the divorce and settled this privately. It was Heard that wants this to become a public circus in hope to humiliate Depp. The real victim wanted to move on peacefully and quietly but the abuser wanted the victim to be entirely ruined, therefore, the victim fought back. 2. People think that defamation lawsuits keeps victims from speaking out in fear of legal action is an infringement to free speech, but free speech does not mean you can take advantage of it to reputably ruin someone with lies and go unpunished. Real victims will always have evidence as strong as Depp does, where as lies are not evidence and can never win the court of law. 3. People thinks it is a an odd and unreasonable thing that Heard was not believe when it is just as odd and unreasonable that they do not believe Depp just because they are relying on prejudices and stereotypes against a gender.

The only ones who should be worried about this case and its outcome are liars, whether they be male or female. I can't imagine a true victim of DV, such as myself, and SA as looking to AH as an example. I don't condone any of the violence towards her, but maybe she and other potential false accusers will be more cautious before attacking their victims going forward. We can only hope.

Twisting everything to claim people where against amber for being a woman, instead of the reality that she's an abuser and liar, is more harmful to the me too movement than anything that happened in court. It's shameful. The case is an example that if you're honest, you will get justice, but if you lie your gender won't save you. The people who lie about these things, and those who defend them are the ones who do the harm.

Basically Jodi has said that even AH made false allegation against Johnny, she should not be sue because other victims would be scared to come forward. This is just unfair. Justice and fairness should be served to men and women alike.

How people could still be on her side is insane. The evidence literally shows her to be a guilty, evil and a horrible person. Well, as we see from this case, they're are a lot of people like Heard, and they're the ones supporting her.

The setback for women isn't Johnny winning the case, it's Amber lying about domestic violence. What Amber did for real DV is catastrophic, shame on you, Amber.

She was attacked on line because we were able to watch ourselves and see who the abuser was

I lost any potential future respect for Jodi Kantor here

Are you guys serious. She lied! She tried to ruin the man’s life! The evidence is OVERWHELMINGLY in JD favor. She couldn’t take 1 picture out of all the pictures and videos she took of her face beaten and bloodied? Because it didn’t happen. This sets back women because now they have to have picture proof of their wounds or they won’t be believed….. BECAUSE OF HER.

My cousin was sent to prison because his ex girlfriend and mother of his daughter accused him of rape all the while she was cheating on him. Her sister even backed up her story which made him look guilty. It wasn't until a few years later that new evidence and actual witnesses came forward and he was released and found inocente of all charges. He now lives peacefully with his daughter trying to be the best father for her. As for his ex and her sister I really don't know what happened to them. I think he refused to press charges as long as he had full custody of his daughter and never get to see her ever again. Johnny Depp was right that we need to go back to Inocente Until Proven Guilty.

If your castle will tumble down because justice was served or the truth was told, you don’t have a castle, you have a house of cards.

I wish MSM would stop inviting guests who haven’t seen the entire trial. Guests who have not watched the trial should just not speak. PERIOD.

This is INSANE. The law is the law, public opinion and social media played absolutely no part in the findings of the jury and the way people keep trying to spin this in that direction is disgusting. This woman seems to imagine that every man should face the trial of public opinion, that the mere accusation of abuse should be enough to destroy someone and no jury, no evidence, no legal process is necessary. And you'll all notice that this woman doesn't give a damn about the torrent of abuse and humiliation Depp faced when Heard made her false allegations, and that wasn't from just a few Twitter accounts, that was the ENTIRE MEDIA. I'm a bleeding heart liberal but I want no part of a "social justice" movement which attacks the rule of law and claims that all men are abusers and all women are incapable of lying, even after a trial in which the woman ADMITTED to abuse, failed to produce any evidence that she was a victim and even presented blatantly falsified photos in an attempt to lie. This MeToo movement has destroyed itself, assisted by Heard and women like Kantor who seem obsessed with a narrative that all men are evil and all women meek and innocent beings incapable of lying. Believe all victims, but require a legal process.

The verdict isn’t a “setback” it’s a step forward it is a signal that no matter your gender or sex you cannot falsely accuse someone of something they didn’t do, you cannot use your status to weaponize hatred against the opposite sex, amber heard is a liar and an abuser. This trial showcased that men can be and are victims of abuse at the hands of women and to ignore that is disgraceful

Why is this woman (in blue) looking at domestic violence as a man doing it to women problem. If she was a real feminist or for equal rights she would be against domestic violence period in spite of who the perpetrator is. This is why we have a judicial system and people have the right to defend themselves.

The anchors tried to keep her accountable somewhat, but didn’t really press her and allowed her run her mouth, not wanting to do much than thank her for coming on her platform and running some views for the channel, not wanted to deter others. But she runs her mouth and really does perpetrate defamation here, there has been a verdict on this. If Depp was more litigious, he would sue this channel, and he’d win. Same goes for her lawyer’s appearance on the show; they should be taking legal advice because allowing people to defame Depp with respect to a decided case on the same matter puts their channel in hot water. It’s of course very unlikely Depp would take action, but the other obvious result is that the channel and its anchors lose all credibility, which is a shame because some of them probably have some real talent. The comments to this and other videos say it all.

The lesson anyone should take here is 1) don’t abuse your partner, 2) don’t lie and make up bs about others, definitely not under oath on court and 3) men can be victims in DV too

Everyone is missing the point. The public will not support people who take advantage of using "Me Too" allegations! She was caught lying numerous times and used the "Me Too" standings to earn browny points. This is why the public is outraged and side with JD.

I'm a DV and SA victim and it has no effect on anyone. There's no facts in lies and this shows if ur telling the truth u will be believed but if u make terrible allegations u will be found out and there should be consequences for them

I thought the word "misogyny" would start to be tossed around in the absence of any real evidence. In my experience, a lot of the anti-Heard commenters were female survivors of abuse who recognised their own abuser in Amber Heard and saw themselves reflected in the experience of Johnny Depp. There was also a ton of male survivors of female abuse who were saying, "Yes, Amber Heard is exactly like my abuser." This was not a tirade of misogynistic toxic masculinity, so quit this nonsense while you still have some credibility.

Oh please they didn’t need a campaign, the way she behaved and how there was no tears showed people her true colors 🤷‍♀️ It’ll help MEN who have also been abused to come forward. Why aren’t we considering what this means for them? Metoo is never going to disappear but we also need to support men who are abused.

Supporting a liar weakens your cause

This was a setback - to people wanting to claim false allegations.

I wish she commented on how prejudicial it is to real victims when someone lies about being a victim/survivor. If there's anything from this case that truly harms true survivors, it's not the defamation case, it's the mess Amber created that will deter anyone from coming forward out of fear of not being believed. Or even abusive partners referencing this case whenever their victims consider exposing them. Amber Heard is a disgrace.

If the MeToo movement does go away. Then it will be on Amber. She chose to lie about the horrific abuse, especially when it's revealed she was the abuser. She personally made it hard for 'actual' victims to come forward. Justice was served in this trial.

To the contrary, abused women are happy the abuser is punished. When you have been abused you recognize an abuser anywhere. It is not about being a women or a man.... ( by the way, I thought nobody knows anymore what a woman is).....

The “verdict” didn’t hurt the me too movement. A woman lying about being assaulted did though.

This case showed that not every "me too" woman says true...

Please stop victimizing all this. No one is cheering for the home team, people were cheering for the truth and justice. Amber had NO credibility.

This verdict will make ME TOO movement even stronger. It will include men into the movement. Men can be victim too. But these toxic feminists don't want men to get justice.

-A victim of abuse does not chase around ones abuser and call them a "baby!" for complaining about getting physically abused. -A victim of abuse does not take embarrassing photos of ones abuser and share them because that would potentially put one in dangerous situation -A victim of abuse does not give ones abuser a knife as present that contains a message that could be interpret as a death threat. -A victim of abuse does not need to lie all the time and fake evidence -A victim of abuse does not laugh and smirk at ones abuser ...

This is not a setback to women at all! Its justice for both Men and Women. Abuse has no gender!! I was mentality abused and I stand with Johnny!

Bless these poor reporters. First Elaine, and now this lady. These reporters are trying so hard to be polite and politically correct. They all know that Amber is a pathological liar, but they have to suppress their true feelings. I wouldn’t work in this environment for a million dollars.

The implications is that ME TOO backed the abuser so it's fair to say she wrecked it and people will question if ME TOO is defending abusers now. They keep expecting people to support Amber just because she's a woman and we should ignore her abuse of him.

Why the media does not say "this is a step forward to protect men from false accusations"?

Me too should stand for all the abused, women or men! Why not say that this verdict encourages men to come forward to tell their stories? The gender bias is so flagrant!

Wow Jodi Kantor is in denial! The look on everyone’s faces (1:53) when she said it was unclear who won…priceless! Did she even watch the Trial??? She should’ve consulted with her PR before speaking here.

This only hurts the women who are lying

Why would it hurt other women coming forward? This one involved a newspaper article blaming a man for DV against a woman. 99.99% of cases of DV don’t involve outing abusers in the media so it doesn’t conflate with the overwhelming majority of cases.

I don't know why it is difficult to believe that men can be recepient of Abuse and they can be a victim too.....Why the mainstream focus is on women who might not come out but rather it sets an example that women who are abusers and liars cannot hide behind and claim themselves to be a victim of Abuse.....Also more men needs to come forward like Johnny Depp did. As for Me too movement...... everything had its course and seems like this movement has run its course.

When I listen to this interview I see her ducking and dodging the question that they're asking. This verdict did not set back the me-too movement. This verdict let victims know you will be believed and your abusers will be held accountable so don't give up fight as hard as you can. What all of these people on these clown panelists don't understand is victims come in all shapes, sizes genders, sexual orientation Etc. And the me-too movement doesn't necessarily just be about woman it's about victims coming out telling their story and seeking justice. Women are not the only ones who go through this men do as well but it's harder for them to step out in the spotlight and tell their story

Do they not realize to falsely accuse someone of rape and torture is so evil and cruel.

The evidence showed that SHE WAS THE ABUSER! No one attacked her or her poor child. People are rather concerned for the safety of her child. And also, weren‘t they not allowed to follow the trial online? So how would they know what happened online???

She doesn't represent woman she lie a lot.she was the abuser this lady doesn't know how is to deal with a narcissistic person.

Amber heard is a disgrace for all those poor woman who truly suffered from abuse.

She's on Amber's side because they would look stupid considering the Me too movement helped Amber write all the rubbish she published

Jus like AH, MeToo movement never takes any accountability! Dont try to dodge the bullet, instead accept your wrong and maybe the movement will continue to truly stand for its purpose! If not, it will fall as quick as AH did!

“For whatever reason, was not believed.” What? Probably because of all the evidence against her….

I did not know how generous Johnny Depp was I learned wonderful things about him in this trial from her side as well

Good thing this trial was televised. Public can form their own opinion based on what they watched rather than relying on the MSM (some are obviously biased towards AH). The percentage of a women being abused is higher than men being abused. But don't forget that small percentage of men being the victim of DV is significant too, they matters too. There are men who are victim of DV who don't want to come forward or report their female abuser because they think no one will believe them because they are man. I hope the people in media should have discuss also the implication of this trial to those victim of DV who happen to be a man.

2:01 that silence was so loud 🤣🤣

Amber is an Abuser but no one is saying this ,they are just blaming Johnny Depp's star power? Amber presented herself as an innocent woman which shes not I cant wait for Johnny's team to give Interviews and debunk all this lies.

What Amber did was make a mockery of those of us who are REAL victims of abuse! It is vile and disgusting that they still are trying to defend her! Have they forgotten the past six years of hate Johnny has received? Amber and her team can shove it!

imagine making a baseless accusation and then facing the consequences for that oh the horror......

Media in general and her lawyers are saying that everyone who believed in Johnny is either his fan or is dumb. This is so presunptious and disrespectful with the viwers. Just watch the trial and make your own conclusions. I'm feminist, I stand by all woman should have the same rights, oportunities and all of it that men does. But I'm not that naive to believe that all woman are 100% right all the time. And all of people, woman and men, were abused should be able to come foward and say so. For me (and to be clear i'm not a fan of Johnny Depp, I admire his work but i'm not a fan), it was very clear that Johnny was abused. I put myself in his shoes, he's been through all of it, was discredited for years and yet is suffering by gaslighting from her and her lawyers. This can't be easy. They just dont know time to stop. Just talk to real victims, they'll say they've triggered by ms. Heard and they will say they identifie themselves with Johnny. I wish her well. And I hope Johnny can move on and doesnt have to stay in the same room with his abuser never again, no victim should be.

Not mentioning the fact she admitted several times on tape that she hit him

While the “me too” movement had some positive effects - the “believe all women” (regardless of evidence) aspect wasn’t very good. I was told that feminism was for everyone, but I am now seeing how toxic branches of it have harmed both men and women. For men that have been mentally/physically abused, this was a huge win.

"For whatever reason, Amber Heard was not believed. How will that affect the MeToo movement?" OBJECTION - leading!

If you are telling the truth there is no need to be afraid. This case brought the truth about how some woman used the me too movement as a weapon against man

The broader implications are that men and women should speak out even when their partner claims, "No one will believe you!" JD the VICTIM, Won the case. AH the ABUSER lost. Justice was served even though the man was the abused. More abuse victims should be heartened.

If anyone falsely accuses someone of domestic violence or rape they should face the same legal consequences as a real perpetrator

There is literally ZERO implications on the # movement. All people need to do is tell the TRUTH and not try to extort or blackmail people and take photos of them as they are sleeping or “out” or arguing. And she was literally the most aggravating thing to watch. Completely unbelievable. I am almost 70 years old and I can tell you if I had been on that jury, she would have been found guilty…of lying and seriously being disingenuous.

How would it be set back? It showed with so much proof that she is a liar. Seems like so many TV shows and so on are forgetting that she was on tape she gave JD black eyes

The ''MeToo'' movement lost the plot when it morphed into ''believe all women.'' Despite the fact that women are far more likely to be DV victims than men, choosing to believe one group based on gender is nonsensical. Heard lost the case because she wasn't credible; she lied and equivated throughout the trial, even when it wasn't necessary.

It’s should hurt women that are thinking of coming forward to lie YES AND IT DAMN WELL SHOULD

All experts aren't experts. She's definitely not one

its Me Too without Heard it only hurts liars who abuse the system.

This woman's comments just made the me too movement a joke in my eyes, especially since I am a passionate advocate for women's rights. Her and Amber are who and what's taking away the movements credibility because no matter what justice and fairness must prevail