This whole thig is interesting on a lot of levels, and has made me have to re-evaluate a lot of stuff. Honestly, I really don know how I feel about this.
My first inclination was to get on board with the whole "this is so incredibly wrong!" shtick. Then I started really wondering what Jennifer Lawrence looked like naked, and I think I tried to rationalize looking at it.
Then I ran across a reddit post talking about whether or not this will start a conversation about candid pornography. Large amounts of the amatuer porn on the internet either gives no reason to believe there is no consent in the posting, or actively promotes the idea that there *isnt* consent (like those "revenge porn" sites). Ironically, the latter usually has consent and is just a gimmick, but there is a LOT of amatuer porn out there that does not have consent.
Thing is, I enjoy amatuer porn. Not because it doesn't have consent, I just like real amatuer stuff.
So it begs the question. Is it worse that if it's a celebrity or a nobody? Why? Does that even matter? If not, why weren't we talkin about this before?
Because let's be honest, while the scope of this leak is unprecedented, conceptually it's nt that different from paparazzi sites or celebrity sex tapes that have been leaked before. Lots of people actually used the Ke$ha pics as an excuse to call her a nasty slag.
Anyways. This whole thing has been weird for me, because all of what I said may seem like an argument for it being ok for me to look at JLaws funbags, but they are also an argument for me giving up all the amatuer porn I like. I just don't know which way to go with this.
If it had just been one celebrity would it have been easier to ignore?
I still haven't looked at the pics yet....but I probably will. I think it's good that the conversation is happening though, and I hope it goes beyond a conversation lamenting the plight of these celebrities, who, while they have absolutely been violated, are a very small drop in a very large bucket of non-consensual amatuer porn.
Ed: maybe it's like the Freddy Mercury/Rock Hudson thing. Even if there are lots of victims, celebrities being victimized helps spread awareness. So maybe, in a weird way, there's a silver lining.