Venom

Imagine Johnny Depp telling Amber Heard, “I didn’t punch you. I was hitting you.” He’d be condemned. His career could be destroyed. We’d call it abuse. Now reverse the genders. Amber Heard says those exact words, and suddenly people want to debate the difference between hitting and punching. Since when does abuse depend on who’s throwing the punches? And let’s not forget Heard’s Washington Post op-ed. Depp said it devastated his reputation and career. A jury later found three statements defamatory, false, and made with actual malice. But here’s the part that really gets me. Johnny Depp had the money, attorneys, and resources to fight back. What about the average man who doesn’t? The man who loses his job, reputation, friends, or family over an accusation he can’t afford to challenge? Does he just spend his life labeled an abuser? Listening to this recording genuinely makes me sad. If a man hitting a woman is abuse, a woman hitting a man is abuse. PERIOD. Women deserve to be heard. Men deserve to be heard. And everyone deserves due process. Being a woman doesn’t automatically make you truthful. Being a man doesn’t automatically make you guilty. That’s not equality. That’s a double standard. #EndMisandry #Himtoo #HeToo