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Creepshots and revenge porn: how paparazzi culture affects women

This business about “creepshot websites” and “revenge porn” is disgusting and unbelievable. Whether a celebrity or not it’s unforgivable and inexcusable behaviour. The sad idea that when confronted with this issue a lot of people jump to the “well she was stupid” frame of mind is ridiculous.

“…a sense that female bodies are public property, fair game – to be claimed, admired and mocked.”

“Even in a completely private setting, within a marriage – it couldn’t be any more innocuous than the Middleton situation – and yet people are still saying things like: what was she expecting, she’s famous and she’s got breasts, and therefore she’s got to keep them covered up all the time. I do think it’s a rage against women being sexual on their own terms. We’re perfectly fine with women being sexual, as long as they are objects and they’re passive, and we can turn them on, turn them off, download them, delete them, whatever it is. But as soon as it’s women who want to have any kind of exclusionary rights about their intimacy, we hate that. We say, ‘No, we’re going to make a whore out of you’.”

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