Hap2 said:
otakon17 said:
I am not victim blaming here.
Except you're going to do just that:
I simply feel that if she should not have taken compromising pictures of herself in the first place.
You're sending a lot of mixed messages here, at one point you're condemning those people for saying the exact same thing you said at the end of your post:
And to all those that downloaded said pictures and use "Well she shouldn't have taken them in the first place.", fuck off that's not the point of the argument to justify your invasion of a woman's privacy.
What a person does on their phone is their own business, whether it's sending messages, sending nude photos to someone else, or something else not illegal or dangerous to the public, full stop. Breaching that privacy is wrong, regardless of whether the person is a public figure or not.
To the last point, yeah it is wrong. I said as much in my first post so why are you reiterating? If it was something concerning an illegal matter or lives were on the line or some other kind of extenuating circumstance then it's different. This is not any of those things. I thought I made that clear.
As for my condemning, it's people using this statement to condone their actions. This is not a statement that condones this kind of thing and I am NOT condoning the actions of the thief or the downloaders of the photographs. But I still feel that if you don't take nude pictures of yourself, period, there is little chance of the possibly incriminating material getting out into the world.
I am not saying she does not deserve sympathy and I am not okay with this whole series of events. I am only saying that she did not think through of possibility of this happening. She's an actress, a public figure. She is more or less scrutinized and watched 24/7 by the zealous and obsessed. You have to be extra careful when you're in that kind of spotlight.
I can hear the counter argument now of "Well then no one should do anything for the possibility of being struck by lightning/mugged/have an airplane toilet fall on them." That doesn't really apply in the case where you perform actions that can potentially embarrass you.