So I am actually really annoyed today. Yesterday some dick with a laptop decided it would be a good idea to hack the accounts of well known female celebrities, find any type of risque picture of them and put it out onto the internet for the whole world to see. Now not only is this a huge invasion of privacy and cause of embarrassment to all the ladies listed and indeed whose pictures have been splashed around the internet, it is also just another case of the warped ideals of how women are 'supposed' to behave.
Now firstly let's look at the list in question, I don't see any male names on there, and if history has taught us anything it is that if there is some way in which to capture/draw/photograph the male form there will be somebody doing it, why? Because if a man was to have naked pictures leak it would be a joke, he would be patted on the back and everybody would have a laugh over it and not at the person in question.
If your a girl though, heaven forbid, you are a slut, a heathen, the reason why society in general is falling apart around our very ears. It seems whenever one of these nude photo leak's happen a large majority of people seem to think we have all suddenly transported back to the 1950's and that a woman's place is in the home, to be seen as an accessory rather than her own self, after all if we had stuck to this ideal then none of this would have happened right? This is what travelling down the dirty road of Feminism will do for you, eh?
It is this ignorant blanket response that annoys me whenever something of this ilk comes out. All these women are strong, independent, successful ladies. Take Jennifer Lawrence, she heads up one of the biggest franchises in cinema, has won an Oscar and is one of the most honest and open Hollywood stars out there at the moment, who should give a rat's ass what she gets up to in the privacy of her free time. Is she hurting anybody or herself? No.
The fact these women are shamed by certain members of society for daring to take such pictures in the first place makes my blood boil - least we forget these are all consenting adults we are talking about, all of whom have made the decision themselves to take these pictures. It is their own private property which somebody has taken such a careless, selfish and criminal attitude to. Imagine if this were pictures or personal letters or diary entries that belonged to you or somebody you loved. Something so private and personal that was never meant to be seen by anybody else, imagine how awful that would make you feel. Being a 'celebrity' does not protect you from that kind of personal invasion.
In the wake of recent headlines there are plenty of other 'celebrities' out there doing things that make your blood run cold, how about we shame those instead of picking on those who are themselves a victim of crime. We should salute these women for being successful, for embracing their sexuality and for not wanting to spread every little detail of their lives in the public domain.
Time will pass and people will forgot this even happened, if only the prejudices surrounding this issue were so easy to make go away.
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