Amber Heard's popularity has suffered significantly throughout her ongoing authorized battle with ex-husband Johnny Depp, along with her each transfer being scrutinized by thousands and thousands.

The multimillion-dollar defamation go well with has dominated conversations on social media for the previous month, with Depp showing to garner better sympathy than Heard, despite the fact that each events have made critical allegations of abuse in opposition to the opposite.

Depp has sued Heard for $50 million over a 2018 op-ed she wrote for The Washington Publish, during which she stated she was a home abuse survivor. Whereas Heard, who's countersuing for $100 million, didn't title Depp within the article, his attorneys have argued that it was apparent she was referring to the actor.

A sociologist has delved into the response in direction of Heard from many home abuse survivors, and why so many have stated they don't imagine Heard.

"When you're following the Depp trial, you've gotten in all probability seen loads of ladies saying some model of, 'I am a survivor. And as an actual survivor, I can let you know that you just should not imagine Amber Heard.' Why is that this occurring?" Dr. Nicole Bedera, a sociologist who research sexual violence, started in a prolonged Twitter thread this week.

"First, it is value noting that survivors are a heterogeneous group," Bedera wrote. "Perpetrators don't decide victims primarily based on their political views and experiencing violence will not be all the time a radicalizing occasion for ladies."

A have a look at social media conversations about Heard and her accusations in opposition to Depp backs up Bedera's assertion, as plenty of people have stated they're home abuse survivors, and they don't imagine the actress' allegations.

"Amber Heard has lied underneath oath in VA for a number of days. She made a mockery of #DV victims and survivors. Turd DOES NOT converse for me, ladies, BPD, HPD, survivors in ANY capability. She belong in jail #AmberHeardDeservesPrison #JusticeForJohnnyDepp," reads one tweet with greater than 2,000 likes.

Whereas one other added: "I've been extremely triggered watching Amber Heard talking over the previous two days. As a DV survivor I anticipated it, however not on this means. It is simply complicated, it would not really feel proper. She is telling a narrative, abuse is not a narrative. It is a listing of traumas."

One other individual posted: "As a feminine DV survivor, I are inclined to imagine ladies after they say they're survivors. After watching the Depp V Heard trial for myself and never going by the media, #IBelieveJohnnyDepp."

Furthermore, Heard's allegations have been extensively mocked on-line, with many individuals taking to TikTok to lambast her testimony.

Bedera stated she carried out her dissertation work in a conservative state and there have been many conservative victims who insisted that she ought to imagine them however not different ladies.

"These ladies are significantly prone to categorical anger at different ladies who converse out as a result of they're "ruining *my* credibility,'" she stated on Twitter. "Survivors who maintain these ideologies are significantly prone to be elevated by teams like Males's Rights Activists. They see sexist ladies as legitimizing their motion as 'not about gender' and 'not about hate.'"

She additionally addressed one other situation, saying that "survivors are specialists in *their* expertise, however not essentially *all* experiences of gender-based violence. And a few will start to rank different survivors' tales primarily based on how comparable they're to their very own."

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A sociologist who research sexual violence lately defined on Twitter why plenty of ladies who determine themselves as home abuse survivors don't imagine the allegations of violence by Amber Heard in opposition to her ex-husband Johnny Depp. Pictured, Heard arrives on the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, on Might 26, 2022. MICHAEL REYNOLDS/POOL/AFP through Getty Photos

"It may be scary--and for victims, re-traumatizing--for ladies to empathize with an abuse survivor," Bedera added. "If violence actually *is* in every single place and if it *feels* like it may well occur to anybody, then loads of ladies will begin to fear that they are going to be subsequent."

In the end, Bedera stated she will not be stunned that plenty of ladies are defending Depp.

"So is it shocking that loads of ladies are coming to Depp's protection? In no way. It is utterly in keeping with the tutorial literature on how (many) ladies reply to disclosures of sexual violence--especially after they have some relationship to a perpetrator," she stated.

Newsweek has reached out to Bedera for additional remark.