Johnny Depp’s testimony, part 7.

Before we start, I shoud point out why he sued Amber Heard. It was because of the Oped in Washington Post,  which was written and published in December 2018 by Amber Heard where  she talked about domestic and sexual violence. She never named him in an article.

THAT’S IT.

hey just so everyone knows, It Was A Draft

the supreme court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is not official yet. someone leaked a draft of the opinion that the members of the court have been circulating and revising (the draft was created by justice samuel alito).

which is insane by the way. it’s the first time that a draft of a supreme court decision has ever been leaked in the entire history of this country.

it makes perfect sense to feel grief or panic or dread or sadness or anger or whatever you’re feeling right now. this is fucking terrible and scary. just for the sake of avoiding misinformation, i wanted to clarify this because i think a lot of the headlines have been misleading, and the info gets even more misconstrued when it’s rephrased on social media and stuff

I did my thesis on eugenics and forced sterilization in Canadian history (indigenous specific) and the next cis woman to say that men should collectively be forced to get vasectomies for points on some kind imaginary scoreboard of rights is getting sent a copy of the records I had to sift thru of men, mostly indigenous, racialized, developmentally disabled, or poor men, being sterilized against their wills and often without their knowledge.

I once again must remind people that "don't like abortion, get a vasectomy" isn't the gotcha you think it is, and that reproductive justice means supporting people who are targeted by the state both for forced birth AND for sterilization and child apprehension, as they're linked closely.

This Johnny Depp trial is showing a fascinating overlap between mid-30s white women who still haven’t gotten over Jack Sparrow and Sweeney Todd and hardcore anti-feminist incel men who are busting the fattest nuts at Amber the Bitch being dragged through the mud in a misogynistic media spectacle

And it is an intensely, deeply misogynistic media spectacle. I don’t follow celebrity bullshit and I don’t know all of the “facts” of this case and I don’t care: the only reason this is getting so much fucking press - aside from the braindead celebrity gossip aspect - is it’s a woman being legally tried for allegedly lying about domestic abuse and defaming her poor wittle ex-husband, because our society still has a deep-seated hatred and contempt for women who survive abuse and assault and speak out about it, and The Bitch being on very public trial is a chance to reaffirm and reify those beliefs against whatever meager gains were made (and then shat out by the collective media betrayal of Tara Reade) by MeToo. It’s really not fucking complicated.

[Q. I am just going to ask you a question. Just say yes or no, please, to the next question. Have you seen any confidential statements that Ms. Heard has made in these proceedings? A. No, sir.]

love is the most important thing ever

not just romance . just having love in ur heart

Please stop this amatonormativity ;-;

what exactly is wrong with this post genuinely what problem is there like are u good do u need something

It’s amatonormative because it says “love is the most important thing ever.” No exceptions, no caveats, no “this is how it is for me but hey you do you.” Amatonormativity is the idea that everyone wants love, that everyone is hardwired for it, and it’s so pervasive that when the aromantic community said “maybe don’t put love on a pedestal?”, everyone went “we’ll just add all the other types of love to the pedestal, you should be happy now!” and then got mad when we weren’t.

If love is super important to you, then that’s fine! Still examine yourself for amatonormative impulses because they’re probably there, etc, and you may even find something else is more important to you. But don’t tell other people that it has to be important to them, too.

And. . . love really isn’t the most important thing ever. Yes, even platonic love. Even familial love. Even just “having love in ur heart.” Nothing is the most important thing ever, because everyone has different priorities, and that’s okay! It’s absolutely fine if you find fulfillment in kindness or compassion or happiness or a combination of those or something else entirely. You’re not doing anything wrong.

shut the fuck up and go outside

Colorado Republican Representative Lauren Boebert has suggested an age limit of 21 before people be allowed to make “life-altering decisions about their sexuality and identity”.

“We require people to be 21 to purchase [alcoholic] beverages, and 21 to purchase tobacco products,” Ms Boebert tweeted on Friday.

She got married at 19

Her husband was arrested for showing his penis to teenagers at a bowling alley

With no due respect whatsoever, if your activism against the Talibans only consist of the oppression of women, then your activism is useless, there are minorities who will suffer and die under their hand and it's repulsive that you give in to western media and never make your own individual research to understand the situation clearer.

you're braindead

scrotes mad

Boo boo won’t someone think of the poor men. Kys

Yeah no, I think getting captured and sold into sexual slavery or as a child bride is way worse. Fuck off moid

It's actually hilarious how I never mentioned "men" anywhere in this conversation, but rather minorities in general.

I was referring to other minority groups such as Shi'a Muslims, Hazaras and other ethnic and religious minorities, since they are never brought up in your activism, but somehow, you brainless monkeys are thinking this conversation is all about men's rights when I'm telling you guys to include other minorities that are being constantly targeted by the Talibans.

I'm so glad you guys proved my point

US politics are so embarrassing holy fuck THIS IS AN UNIRONIC AD NVDHJFJFSJF

Is this really not satire?

it's serious, look up the books

Someone made an engagement map for TERF tweets

Y’all in the notes please be mindful when you say stuff like “it’s time to kill the British.” The people suffering the most from British transphobia are....British trans people.

^^^^^ for serious. British trans folks rarely get to transition at all, and when they don't they're often denied any social transition period. TERFs in the UK aren't here to start laws against people in America, they're trying and succeeding to kill off trans people in the UK. This really isn't the situation to cram on the brits to look and feel better about yourself... the trans body count is tremendous over there. Please have some respect for the people actually effected.

Please do keep this in mind. As much as I find the anti-British memes funny, this is a genuine issue in the UK.

I’m a trans man in the UK, I’ve been on the waiting list to be diagnosed for just over 2 years now, and am expected to wait around another 2 years before I get my first appointment (if the wait time doesn’t increase). I will then wait around 2 more years (at the very least) for my second appointment, and if I’m very lucky and am diagnosed in that appointment (which is not guaranteed in the slightest), I’ll enter another waiting list to access healthcare. The service I’m in is considered around average. There are people waiting 6 years for their first appointment in other services, so I am incredibly lucky with my supportive family (in that I haven’t been kicked out or abused, parents still don’t respect pronouns or name) and I have good friends who respect me, as well as only waiting 4 years for a first appointment.

Maybe you could go private if you had the money, right? Go a similar route to trans people in the US? A diagnosis from a private practice can be rejected by your General Practitioner, and any referral you get for hormones or surgery can be completely dismissed, because you weren’t diagnosed by an NHS practice. You would likely have to go entirely private, which is not possible for thousands of trans people who rely on the NHS. This is an issue within the NHS and a completely lack of funding and training for trans healthcare, resulting in horrifically long wait time and difficult to access help, especially given doctors and surgeons have and are having their practices shut down because they aren’t considered proper by the NHS, despite being one of very very few who commit to this kind of work.

The transphobia in the UK runs far deeper than just tweets, and combining the aggressively transphobic attitude of a large portion of the population with the lack of healthcare due to wait times and difficulties with funding, you set up an incredibly difficult and dangerous position for trans people. Maybe this sounds like a bunch of complaints and nothing to people in the US, but people here are dying as a result of this. Please do keep this in mind when making anti-UK memes surrounding specifically transphobia.

also, our wait times for HRT have gone up to 6 years through the NHS.

^ a clarification, the state of trans healthcare is far more down to how the process is set up than funding. I had an entire appointment where they only asked me about my dead dads. I've had another being interrogated on my hobbies. One appointment was an hour of me being told to get a job.

Aside from totally wasting resources, clinics are also required to make trans people jump through unnecessary hoops and frequently add their own restrictions like "making nb people wait an additional 6 months" or "not allowing parents to transition". Looking like you havent medically transitioned will also get you turned down for medically transitioning, as will making any attempt to medically transition without their approval. Some clinics require you to be in work, some require you to not have sex or relationships, some require you to have sex and relationships. I went to one clinic where the fact that I wore clothes from the men's section was used as evidence that I am not transmasc. And god forbid you be ok with the fact that T will give you body hair, that just means you arent taling it seriously.

Honestly I have little doubt saying that their IS enough funding if the NHS moved to an informed consent model and that wait lists would drop to a few months. As it is people are just wasting time and money to be told no and then we jump on to the next waiting list so everyone else just starting out has to wait longer.

This has never been about money, it is about hurting and controlling us.