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5/8/2022 - celebrity news
Mood: Aching. Perturbed.
Have you guys been following the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard situation right now? I haven't. However, everyone I know seems to be talking about it just endlessly. I don't really use Twitter all that much anymore, but I seriously had to go ahead and block it because it's getting to be a bit much to see on my timeline every single time I check in.
What compels someone to be this interested in a celebrity's personal life like this? I'll admit: I am blessed to not have any opinion on this or real actual awareness of the situation. I know this is a domestic abuse case and that the narrative has shifted over the years, but that's about it. I imagine this has something to do with an interest in what this case must represent... Like, it's big talk coming from the guy who was super invested in the Drake/Pusha beef. However to me, that beef had the more immediate effect of forcing Drake to become a father instead of another black absentee parent + the added cultural spectacle of being some INTENSE rap beef. I digress, though. This whole situation with Johnny Depp and Amber Heard seems to have some BAD conversation surround it though and ends up making a spectacle of two a couple's history of domestic abuse.
This leads in to my main question: Whyyyy do we all have to talk about it?
Why do people expect me to have some kind of opinion on this? The fact of the matter is that I am not an affected party by whatever may or may not have happened between them. As a result, I don't have all the necessary details to have what I believe is a well-informed take on the situation. The fact that people seem to have shifted between supporting Amber to supporting Johnny speaks very clearly to that fact. Moreover, it's not my business. What do they gain from having some random guy's support, especially since I will only be offering it through distanced Twitter threads not even directed towards them?
I don't really wnana fully make this about these two, because I kinda have the same beef with the Ye/Kim/Skete situation. This a bit of an issue I don't enjoy hearing nonblack perspectives on because of Ye's general cultural significance, especially to black folk... But the thing with them is like, it's more airing out of their dirty laundry. Specifically their divorce, Ye's access to his children, the whole "Kim dating Pete Davidson" thing... I won't act like I haven't been following this but its moreso because I'm shocked how THEY THEMSELVES are making so much of this shit public when it really doesn't need to be. Even Kim herself has made it clear that she doesn't like how Ye makes this shit public. Imagine how these other celebs must feel when they're going through traumatic situations and all these internet denizens are just sitting around throwing hot take after hot take into the larger cultural conversation about it.
It SUCKS.
I won't act like it's not important that victims of abuse get to talk about abusive relationships through the lens of this recent trial. I can understand why people might wanna do that. But I'm a victim of abuse myself and I think it's pretty invasive and inappropriate the way many people are going about this discussion. Thankfully I've left out the "fandomification" of the wider discussion, at least on the net.
Hopefully this blows over soon. I hope people will mind their own business. And I hope that the affected parties reach a conclusion that gives the most closure to them.