"It is not a scandal. It is a sex crime," Lawrence declares.
Following "The Fappening," as Reddit unceremoniously dubbed it, Lawrence admits she was tempted to write a public statement, but "every single thing that I tried to write made me cry or get angry. 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.
"Just because I'm a public figure, just because I'm an actress, does not mean that I asked for this," Lawrence continues, referring to the victim-blaming that occurred in the wake of the leak, some of which came from fellow celebrities such as Ricky Gervais and Clay Aiken. "It does not mean that it comes with the territory. It's my body, and it should be my choice, and the fact that it is not my choice is absolutely disgusting. I can't believe that we even live in that kind of world."
What do you think of Jennifer Lawrence's comments?
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What do you think of Jennifer Lawrence's comments?
I think Jennifer Lawrence doesn't have any problems in the looks department.
I think it is a crime that someone that stupid is allowed to wander around unsupervised.
Hey dummy, how did those pictures get taken then uploaded? Any "criminality" involved with that? No? Well then, sod off.
No dear, he's going to look at porn and at you too. There is no either/or.
Sweetie, the Internet is a public place.
Sixty Grit said...
I think it is a crime that someone that stupid is allowed to wander around unsupervised.
I think we have a caretaker volunteer.
Shameless PR hounding!
I owe this one to Steve Sailer, although I'm paraphrasing:
Feminism is now whatever any particular woman feels like bitching about on any particular day!
Being a public figure means the FBI gets involved. Everyone else is on their own.
Porn photos of minors are a sex crime. The minors did not consent (they are below the age of consent) to the photos.
Assuming Jennifer Lawrence and the rest of them did not consent (and this isn't a big sneaky publicity grab) to making these photos public, the same principle applies.
Yes, cloud storage is highly hackable. But so is your house. Would you care to be berated and mocked for leaving expensive personal property in your house and then complaining about it being stolen? Okay then.
The part about the photos supposedly substituting for porn is rather lame, though.
"The part about the photos supposedly substituting for porn is rather lame, though."
I wonder what patriarchy quashing feminists have to say about that.
Doesn't it sound like exploitation? Unless there was a reciprocity "yes means yes" click for click arrangement we don't know about because... privacy.
It sounds like she went fishing for a politically correct reason for the apparently quite large number of nekkid photos that were taken. And, bonus, throwing her ex- under the bus. Lame.
The modern day Puritans/Gladys Kravitzes of the internet are berating her for being slutty for having this many naked photos but that just seems to me like adding needless insult to injury. Her privacy was violated. While I've never understood the urge to photo/video the sex act (like, do you think if you take a picture it will last longer?) it's not hurting anyone so who cares, right?
if you take nekkid photos, expect them to be made public at some point. (duh?) because they will be public at some point. (duh?)
and again, you are in the movies without clothes most of the time anyway, thrusting and heaving in Hollywood's soft porn industry, also known as "the movies". What's the big deal?
While looking for the pics of Kate Upton, I inadvertently stumbled on the Jennifer Lawrence pictures. She's got a terrific body, even better than you would expect. I can't imagine anyone thinking less of her because of those pictures. I don't think beautiful people have anything to fear from dropped towels......I suppose Playboy would have given her a few million to pose, or a Hollywod producer would have paid extra for a bathtub scene, so perhaps now her nudity as a commodity has been devalued. I would consider this more as theft than as a sex crime......This is definitely wrong, but the world has far greater wrongs. She's young, rich, beautiful, talented and likable. It's hard to generate much sympathy for her plight.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not pro hacking. It's basic theft. However, this is going to happen if you are a celebrity. Don't these people watch tmz?
" And, bonus, throwing her ex- under the bus. Lame."
I first read that as "boner"
that would have been a bummer
had she thrown her boyfriend under the bus with a boner.
I'm just saying.
"if you take nekkid photos, expect them to be made public at some point. (duh?) because they will be public at some point. (duh?)"
I'm just not convinced that's a "duh." A lot of people would LIKE it to be a "duh" so they could have a look at the photos, or justify having already done so or feel superior to a movie star or whatever. So there are a lot of arguments for why it should be a duh
BUT
OTOH
don't the cops need a warrant to search your phone?
Oh. Right.
Duh.
So you do have a reasonable expectation of privacy in your phone.
I think it's for the best.
I oppose double standards favoring the famous (FBI attention for property crime) as well as those disfavoring the famous (TMZ attention for naked photos).
Choking your chicken to Rosie O'Donnell would be a crime against nature.
Hacking any photos of Inga would be reasons for psychiatric commitment.
"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."
That's a fantastic excuse. I love it.
I'm not really buying it, however.
If a long distance lover asked me for naked photos, I would be paranoid they would end up public, seen by my parents or something really embarrassing.
I know I am blaming the victim here and that is so politically incorrect.
I give her a bit of a pass as a young person, prior to celebrity incident. (if that is the case here) The lack of privacy stinks and it's not fair, but - well- welcome to celebrity. I hope she finds the hacker and sues em'.
You've been hit by a Smooth Criminal!
She is just angry because she is not profiting on photos of her naked twat and tits. If she decided to be naked in a movie she would be more than happy to have people look up her cooze as long as she got her rice bowl filled.
ndspinelli said...
Choking your chicken to Rosie O'Donnell would be a crime against nature.
Also proof of insanity in all but 2 states.
Well hot dang...I am quite proud to announce I had, and still have, no idea who Jennifer Lawrence is ... and I could care less anyway. She be purty? Yeah, so are lots of women.
This is how you know when you be old. Trust me.
Nah...my better half is still the most beautiful lady in the world to me, and if I may say so, she works at it...weighing the same now with the same body dimensions as she had at 20.
I should be so diligent myself...maybe after this go round with the oncology folks I will take it seriously..e.g, get in better shape and stop being a dickhead about it all. Pbbbbfffftt!
Spengler’s Universal Law of Gender Parity:
"In every corner of the world and in every epoch of history, the men and women of every culture deserve each other."
Her comment on porn acknowledges that she, like all Western women, will be used and not loved. So she makes her own porn, becomes a sex object, she thinks a private one, but nevertheless reduced to a generic graphic of genitalia.
The men are no better off. Ravaged psychologically by women, told that they are evil for simply being men, no wonder they go gay or transgender or drift off into porn and video games.
Neither side is terribly happy.
So no, it's not a sex crime, just another installment of the slow suicide of the West.
either your boyfriend is going to look at porn or he's going to look at you.
That's it? Just two choices? I don't think so Jennifer.
Is that a cockatoo on her arm?
Hey, someone had to say it!
Whatevah.
More importantly, buoyancy is a beautiful thing and it's a known fact that early exposure to the physics of boobies in water is what propelled Archimedes into his study of science, from which we still benefit today in the form of provocative magazine photos.
Funfact.
"So no, it's not a sex crime, just another installment of the slow suicide of the West."
"Knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light" ~ Christopher Hitchens
That's it? Just two choices? I don't think so Jennifer.
There's a lot of Jennifers in the sea.
Look at me!
Don't look at me!
Look at me!
Don't look at me!
You pig!
Change clothes in your bedroom and if your bedroom has a window, at some point, you're going to get peeped.
Does that excuse the peeper?
That taking naked pictures has a few sure results and sending them with your phone or over the internet is *stupid* doesn't make it less of an assault or a crime if someone hacks you.
With technology going the way it's going, soon we're going to effectively only have the privacy afforded by good manners... if that's not already the case.
She sounds jaded.
she sounds like a stripper...
I posted Vanity Fair’s Jennifer Lawrence newest photo (same as your photo) on Imgur. The submission was remove with in 15 minutes, due to down voting
@Synova,
I agree, it's no less serious than stealing credit card data.
However, taking nekkid pictures of your lonesome and sending them digitally is somewhat different than simply getting dressed.
It's like getting dressed in a department store in downtown New York, on the first floor in the display window, and your ex-boyfriend (or some random dick) can decide when he wants to pull the curtain back.
Like I was taught with email: imagine it being printed in the newspaper.
I saw "Silver Linings Playbook" one rainy Saturday afternoon and found Jennifer entertaining and funny, well worth the price of a senior citizen discount ticket.
In my day a nearly naked Raquel Welch was something to look at. All her boyfriend would have had to do is buy a Playboy.
Were nekkid polaroid's all the rage at one point?
I have a client with 2 teenaged boys. The stories I hear.
Girls will do anything to keep their boyfriends interested. Any Clinton maneuver, naked photo - whatever. And the stuff spreads like wildfire on social media.
I can't believe that we even live in that kind of world."
Believe it honey. It is that kind of world. Always has been. Always will be.
Your little protective bubble has been popped. Smarten up sweetie or else you are in for a whole lotta disappointment.
Allen S - thank you.
If your loving relationship requires naked photos, perhaps its not the loving relationship you claim.
OK...I'm going to confess here. When I was in my 20's my boyfriend took naked photos of me. Nothing explicit. Just posing nude on rocks by the river and waterfall and other nature outdoor photos. This was back in the stone age when you had 35mm film. These were also done in black and white. He had great pretensions of being an artiste. I still have the negatives. Not sure where the actual photos are. They are ancient now and probably disintegrated with time.
Actually, I'm somewhat proud of them and would not be appalled if they were to be on the internet because.....looking now from my 64 yr old perspective....damn. I looked pretty good then.
I had scanned the negatives and did a reverse process on them in photoshop. I showed my now husband of 20 years. And he said "Damn....you were HOT." I gave him the hairy eyeball and he said......"Ummmm of course you are STILL hot....umm ummm umm." LOL (relenting)....I know what he meant though and appreciated the compliment for my 20 year old self.
BTW. I saw some photos of him...clothed...standing next to his Corvette, when he was the same age and working in the logging industry. Young, studly and muscled up. Wooooheeee HOT!
DBQ - sexy minx. (In the artistic and tasteful 35mm B&W sense.) (shhh - don't tell tmz)
Disgusting set of comments.
Except for Synova's.
Setting aside whether this movie star is, or is not, stupid, naïve, overentitled, dramatic, pretty, sympathetic, etc., the issue remains that either privacy is a concept we take seriously, for everyone, or it's not.
I say again, I think it is a crime that someone that stupid is allowed to wander around unsupervised.
NSA spying on citizens is serious.
IRS targeting is serious.
Leaked naked celebrity photos? I'm sorry if I don't feel inspired to feel whatever it is I am required to feel.
She has recourses, I suggest she use them. Find the perp and sue his ass. Set the example that this is not right! Nobody here is condoning what happened to her.
Meade: you're so perfectly decadent. How can we live up to your high standards? We cannot! Pity.
Got any naked pictures of your wife?
No?
Want to buy some?
ndspinelli said...
Rosie O'Donnell would be a crime against nature.
Fixed it for you Spinelli.
Dust Bunny Queen said...
OK...I'm going to confess here. When I was in my 20's my boyfriend took naked photos of me. Nothing explicit. Just posing nude on rocks by the river and waterfall and other nature outdoor photos. This was back in the stone age when you had 35mm film. These were also done in black and white. He had great pretensions of being an artiste. I still have the negatives. Not sure where the actual photos are. They are ancient now and probably disintegrated with time.
Actually, I'm somewhat proud of them and would not be appalled if they were to be on the internet because.....looking now from my 64 yr old perspective....damn. I looked pretty good then.
I had scanned the negatives and did a reverse process on them in photoshop. I showed my now husband of 20 years. And he said "Damn....you were HOT." I gave him the hairy eyeball and he said......"Ummmm of course you are STILL hot....umm ummm umm." LOL (relenting)....I know what he meant though and appreciated the compliment for my 20 year old self.
BTW. I saw some photos of him...clothed...standing next to his Corvette, when he was the same age and working in the logging industry. Young, studly and muscled up. Wooooheeee HOT!
THE FAPPENING 3.0!!!
Lawnboy never mentioned his disgust when Mealticket posted on this topic[1] a month or so ago (with comments on that post similar in tenor and content to the ones made here).
And both Lawnboy and Mealticket seemed fascinated with studying and fantasizing about[2] the leaked pictures of Anthony Weiner's cock a few years back.
Doesn't that mean Lawnboy and Mealticket should offer to register themselves as sex offenders, since they've viewed, distributed, and tried to profit off of hacked naked celebrity photos?
The wine guzzling has begun early this week, but after a lifetime of being black out drunk they don't know or remember what they have written or posted.
Party on, Garth!
Meade said...
Disgusting set of comments.
De gustibus non est disputandum
And just as we were speaking of wandering around unsupervised ...
DBQ, VA VA VOOM! Could any be used in a "Who's That Girl" post??
60-Grit for the thread winner at 2:30 PM!!
April - Privacy is a very abstract and vulnerable concept. It's not a clearly stated constitutional right; it's been "read in," as needed politically but it's not express in the US Constitution. I think it's generally presumed to be a right because we all individually value it very highly but that presumption is being increasingly threatened by developing technology and other events. Like, for example, TSA Security Theater. Did you EVER think growing up that your government would make you go through a nude scope in order to get on an airplane? Setting aside the unconstitutional search aspect, it's an invasion of privacy. Nongovernmental privacy invasions are just as serious as NSA spying or IRS targeting. You don't have to like or respect or sympathize with the person whose privacy is being invaded to recognize that it's a bad thing ... for all of us. It's a GOOD THING that the police have to get a warrant to search your phone. I think a few more years and the USSC might have decided the other way. IRS targeting and NSA snooping are serious because they are or might be crimes committed by the government against the people. But whittling away at the concept of privacy (like inventing exceptions for celebrities who show it all anyway eventually or for people who "should know better" than to put private stuff on their phones) is just as serious and debilitating to us all, long term. Perhaps, in the future, we will all be nude (instead of famous) for 15 minutes. We're not there yet but dumb episodes like this one are hastening that unfortunate day.
I get it. I know I should, but I just cannot muster much outrage over this.
I lack empathy when it comes to Hollywood. I know, it's a flaw.
Perhaps I should muster outrage because of the bleed over, but peeping toms are out there, and they have been since day one. Now it is all electronic.
I still submit that if you have digital photos out in the universe, there's risk.
You are thusly advised. Please take care of your own security and privacy. Thanks. (actually - get a polaroid! really nifty invention.)
Things must be slow and comments down at the pest hole.
I think the idea is the manipulators of public opinion would have us all feel vulnerable.
I don't see how that's going to happen anytime soon.
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