Everyone is objectified and sexualized in different ways. I've stood in lines for enough Twilight movies to know that some young girls will practically grope themselves in public over Team Edward and Team Jacob. I've been in enough check-out lines to see that the "who's f**king who" of tabloid journalism is pretty equal-opportunity. Were you crying foul when Levi Johnston was getting porn offers? Jennifer Lawrence is a famous woman of the moment in unfortunate circumstances. The frenzy would be there either way.
The article isn't questioning
why there's a frenzy, rather it concludes that, "Like the rest of us privacy-respecting citizens, [Lawrence's] biggest problem is that she is forced to share the planet with the likes of this excuse for a human being, who used all that talent and creativity for bad, in a world that so desperately needs it for good."
The nature of tabloid journalism is low. Why feed it? Why does Eraserhead have to post this in the frame of a "public service announcement"? Just because other people are doing it, it doesn't mean we have to follow unquestioningly.
And of course men are objectified too, but not to the same extent women are. Women are also disproportionately targeted when you narrow the scope from general objectification to violation of privacy through sharing of unwanted photos of a sexual nature.
There's been a few, but not as many as for female celebrities and they tend to get less attention.
We don't know who they are. Why are you jumping to conclusions?
Wait, I post one article that points out that maybe there is sexism involved in a leak with overwhelmingly female celebrities and you interpret that as saying that "everything that happens to a woman is part of society's grand misogynist bent"? The irony here is that when realisticidealist pointed out that Justin Verlander had his nude photos leaked too, Eraserhead immediately came in to swat him down and assert that his girlfriend's pics were more important.
Alright then, don't accuse me of being motivated by prudishness.
The fact of the matter is, one doesn't have to look at the photos. I haven't looked at them, nor has not looking at them taken a great deal of willpower. Who cares? I've seen plenty of images of womens' bodies, freely offered. I'm sure the bodies of celebrities look pretty much the same. Participating in this kind of violation is privacy is wrong, and not worth it.
