In one swoop these women have been reduced from individuals with complex personalities and wills of their own, into objects of sexual pleasure, without their consent. The internet in this instance has removed any sense of restraint and any notion of empathy for the victims. This is a blatant example of the false and dangerous idea that men cannot and should not be asked to control their sexual desires. And this behaviour is often accepted as normal by themselves and by those around them. So many people, mostly men, have seen these images, not just as passive viewers but as active sharers too. The whole situation says a lot about the state of our culture and western society at this point in time: how we view celebrities, how we view privacy, and how we view women’s bodies. They either think the celebrities deserved it, or they simply haven’t thought about it at all. People who share or look at the images are from the latter two camps. The third is made up of those who just don’t care. The second camp is occupied by those who think this sort of thing comes with the territory of being in the public eye and those girls should have known better. The first camp is the one I have pitched my tent in – this is not only a breach of privacy and theft of personal property but a non-consensual form of sexual violence and those responsible need to be stopped and held accountable. The reactions of the public can be roughly grouped into three camps: Why? The hackers were hoping to make money from their finds, and deduced that the target market most likely to pay for images online would be heterosexual and male. In fact, out of the hundreds of stars to have images of their naked bodies paraded through social networks and sharing sites, only one (American reality star Nick Hogan) is male. Except for the obvious: they have mainly targeted female celebrities. No one can accuse the hackers of not being thorough. Jennifer Lawrence has somehow become the face of the saga because of her status as Hollywood’s current “it girl”, and because frankly, there are too many victims to list every time the situation has been discussed in the media.īy doing some research into the rest it seems as though every young, attractive female celebrity has been included. I say flood rather than leak because of the sheer quantity of celebrities who were involved: Jennifer Lawrence, Selena Gomez, Rihanna, Kaley Cuoco, Vanessa Hudgens, Ariana Grande, Anna Kendrick, Cara Delevigne and Kirsten Dunst are just a small fraction of a huge list of household names. Unless you’ve been living under a wifi-less rock for the last couple of months, you know about the celebrity nude photo flood.
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