I read an article yesterday about Jennifer Lawrence, in regards to her nude photos being leaked to the public. Long story short, she is not happy about it - but who would be? There were two quotes that kind of frustrated me, so let me share them.
- “I started to write an apology, but I don’t have anything to say I’m sorry for. I was in a loving, healthy, great relationship for four years. It was long distance, and either your boyfriend is going to look at porn or he’s going to look at you.”
- "It is not a scandal. It is a sex crime. It is a sexual violation. It’s disgusting. The law needs to be changed and we need to change.”
Here is my question: Can this really be deemed a "sex scandal" when Jennifer Lawrence posted her photos on internet based storage, with the knowledge that this is 2014, and pretty much anyone can access those photos if they wanted to? I don't want to go "off" on this, because I easily could (I have very strong opinions on this, and cannot believe she said what she did). Take a look at the link below, and then keep reading.
Nude Photo Hacking Sex CrimeFirst thing: This is not even the same thing as child pornography - she was a consenting adult! Second: Technology is crazy! Media is crazy! We all have access to it, and anyone with basic hacking knowledge can access anyone's "cloud" or online storage.
Definition of "sex crime": A statutory offense that provides that it is a crime to knowingly cause another person to engage in an unwanted sexual act by force or threat.
Jennifer Lawrence knowingly posted nude photos of herself on an internet based cloud account. This was not forced upon her. In fact, she did it to keep her boyfriend happy, and so that he would not look at porn. Unless he looked at porn in addition to her nude photos. Violated, maybe. Sex crime, hardly.
What are your thoughts? Is this a sex crime? How is media changing our view on things like this?
It's hard to say. She seems pretty upset about it, so I think perhaps it could be a sex crime since what ended up happening wasn't her original intention, AKA it was "unwanted." But, like you said, she wasn't smart about it. Posting anything to the internet pretty much makes it public for anyone, no matter where it's posted. What happened was nasty and terrible and inexcusable, but everybody should know better by now.
ReplyDelete(Also, her comment about being a "healthy relationship" is ridiculous.)
I would agree. It's a sex crime as far as her not wanting those photos to go public. However, she shouldn't have been putting photos like that online in the first place. If she feels like she needs to put up nude photos of herself online to keep her boyfriend's attention off other pornographic material, she needs to hunt for someone else to date.
ReplyDeleteIf she's taking nude pictures (or is getting them taken) then it's her own darn fault they ended up online. This is 2014. Of course something like that is going to spread like wildfire. It's just the world we live in. So she may not have chosen for them to spread, but she DID choose for the pictures to be taken in the first place, and in my opinion, by doing that she inherently chose the latter. She would have to be naive to assume they would stay private. You have to be so careful with what you photograph, video, upload anything etc. these days, the possibilities of where they could spread in a matter of seconds are endless. Even I know that. I'm not saying it's right, I'm just saying it's the reality.
ReplyDeleteWow! Thanks for the comments you guys! I get that she is upset about it (who wouldn't be) but we also live in the 21st Century where anything you put on the internet is accessible. I will leave it at that, because I think she chose to do something, and because it backfired on her, she is flipping a lid. Not mature. But read the link below; they make some pretty good arguments, and I have to say, I agree with them.
ReplyDeletehttp://blog.fightthenewdrug.org/post/99504840786/dear-jennifer-lawrence-whats-up-we-are-writing