“Laughing at someone crying in court? It was disgusting.”
Phoebe Bridgers has added her voice to the continuing din surrounding the biggest trial of 2022: Amber Heard v. Johnny Depp., the musician shared her thoughts about the trial, calling it “upsetting,” and specifically calling out the meme-fication and mocking treatment Heard was subjected to from people across the internet.
Though Bridgers largely minded her business when it came to the trial, she did let a bit of her opinion slip though in August when she liked a Twitter post in support of Amber Heard. News of her “like” was eventually pick up by, speaking to the extremely, and disturbingly, sensationalized manner in which the trial was treated by the public.alluding to that sensationalism.
Discussing the trial in the context of #MeToo movement, Bridgers was careful to not side with either party, but pointed out the seemingly different standards to which Heard and Depp were held by people watching it all unfold online. “I think that there's been this falsehood — and I think queer people are included in this — of having to be the perfect victim, or the perfect survivor, or the perfect representation for your marginalized community," she said.
In addition to Bridgers, a slew of celebrities have spoken out about the trial including FKA twigs who expressed similar views to Bridgers “I don’t know the whole ins and outs so I wouldn’t want to comment on that — but I definitely don’t agree with the fact that a woman who has said she’s been abused has been meme-ified and made fun of in front of the whole internet,” Twigs toldThe Amber Heard and Johnny Depp trial wrapped up in June with a split jury decision...