By KATE LEAVER
“What a silly, silly girl.”
“If you take naked photos of yourself, of course they’re going to end up on the internet.”
“I expected better from Jennifer Lawrence.”
When naked photos of “J-Law” hit the internet this morning, that’s what people were thinking. It’s what people were whispering over their morning coffee, gossiping on the way to work, tweeting. Moral superiority is our quickest shortcut to feeling OK about ourselves when stories like this break.
But the more details you know about this case, the more shallow those initial gut reactions appear.
This is not the kind of “nude photo scandal” we’re used to – it’s more sinister than that. We’re talking about a 24-year-old woman who took photographs of herself, in her own home, for an audience of one. It was an intimate, consensual act between two people that happened to have involved a camera. She even deleted those photographs from her phone.
Then an anonymous man hacked into her computer system, illegally retrieved deleted files, stole up to 60 naked and semi-naked photos, and published them online without her permission or her knowledge. What Jennifer Lawrence did in taking photos of herself was entirely legal and acceptable. Everything that’s happened since is not.
Top Comments
Oh, Jennifer Lawrence is not an idiot with regards to her naked pictures getting leaked. She is however an idiot when she runs her mouth, saying things like 'fat jokes should be outlawed' when she feels butthurt about what people say about her. And she's an idiot when she says that she's the victim of sexual harassment. Having your nudes leaked is a terrible thing yes, but it can not be compared to something like being raped or stalked. Having your intellectual property vandalized is not sexual harassment. Someone harassing you directly physically or mentally, that's harassment. Teens with your nude pictures is something else entirely.
Jen lawrence IS an idiot and you are an imbecile. The girl can not act to sqve her life and her nude pix were hillariouy unsexy.
JLaw is definitely the victim of a terrible CRIME here. And for everyone "Blaming the Victim" just imagine if it was you or your mum / wife / daughter. We should adopt the old French principle that you image belongs to you and anyone who misuses it is subject to Libel laws
My mom wouldn't be stupid enough to upload pictures of herself to the Internet, even if it is "protected". Only a fool trusts others with something so important to them. She uploaded photos to a random computer somewhere...seriously, how dumb do you have to be to do that?