Inconsistent testimony doesn’t mean what you think it means.
, Slate’s podcast about gender and feminism, I talked to Nicole Bedera, a sociologist who studies gender violence, about where that certainty comes from, how the case is playing out on TikTok, and why even empathetic people can have trouble believing survivor testimony. Our conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Slate: As a society that enjoys true crime, we love to dissect every little bit of evidence.
This was a mess. The way that I found out about this was on Twitter. And everyone had made it sound like Amber Heard had held up this makeup palette and lied about using it, and she got caught in this lie because the makeup didn’t even exist. And so the Twitter discourse around this has actually turned into, “Well, did she make a mistake? Did she forget what kind of makeup it was? Maybe she grabbed the wrong palette.
What we’re also seeing in the Depp-Heard trial is how “likable” an accuser or a victim is in any given domestic violence case will go a long way in whether she’s believed, be it by millions of people, by her friends, or by a jury.One thing that I say to my students a lot is that we all support survivors up until we know the perpetrator. When people start to name names, you see the support disappear. They say, “But I know that person. I’m really good friends with your perpetrator.
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