![]() While we don’t have to buy into it, we can’t ignore it either. Even as we work to change the paradigm, it’s still being played out in social media, music videos, commercials, print ads, reality TV and what sociologist Frank Furedi has called the “pornographication” of popular culture. But something so entrenched can’t be erased overnight. Now, of course, we’re ready to be done with it. ![]() It was a sad business and both men and women have suffered because of it. Today we can’t talk about power or empowerment without considering the larger context, the fact that we are just now emerging from millenniums of gender inequality, a situation in which women were reduced to the role of object or servant. The first question to ask is why girls believe they have to share naked pictures of themselves in the first place? I’ve heard it dismissed as either “no big deal” or “empowering,” but neither of these responses go deep enough. Through open, honest conversation, all things return to balance. Our challenge is to look beneath the surface and learn from it, to use this situation as an opportunity for growth. And yet, like so many problems, it’s only a symptom of something else. I would like to salute the courage and leadership of Miramonte’s journalism student, Sofia Ruiz, for her important work in researching and writing the article, “Lamorinda Nudes Dropbox Must Come Down.”Īs The Atlantic Monthly established several months ago,* the practice of teen sexting has become a national epidemic from which no high school is immune. As cliché as it sounds, whatever goes on the internet stays there forever, and if a guy uploads a photo of you to a site, it will never go away. Girls should never feel pressured to send compromising pictures of themselves. To stop this trend, girls also need to understand that private photos they send to boys may not always stay private.Īlthough it would be nice to trust everyone, taking people into our confidence is a risk because they can violate that trust. But one must have respect for others, especially people that have shared photos of themselves. If someone trusts you, respect that.ĭelete the photos if the urge to post them is too great. When a guy uploads a picture a girl has sent him he is breaking the trust she placed in him and shows a lack of empathy and morals. Boys must respect girls that trust them enough to send intimate photos. The main problem lies in the boys that upload the pictures. Whoever created the Dropbox hosting all the photos could reportedly “face possession and distribution of child pornography charges, which carries a minimum sentence of 10 years in prison under Massachusetts law.“Federal law prohibits the production, distribution, importation, reception, or possession of any image of child pornography,” and therefore, this dropbox is illegal, and “convicted offenders face fines severe statutory penalties.” ‘We’re going to pull out all the stops and hold them accountable. ‘We’re clearly identifying these girls as victims, because that’s what they are.’Ĭlancy said police are ‘aggressively’ going after who created the page. ![]() ‘At the end of the day, these are children and they’ve made a mistake,’ Clancy said at a news conference on Wednesday. Some photos even appear to be fake, according to CBS Boston. (via)Īccording to Daily Mail, Police Chief Matthew Clancy believes that the selfies were sent to the boyfriends of the girls involved and that there is “no indication any of the photos were taken of the girls without their consent.” Investigators immediately had the San Francisco-based company take the page down, and have since served a search warrant on the site to determine through forensic testing who created the page in the first place. Police said many of the photos of the Duxbury High School students appear to be selfies and said the girls’ names also appeared on the Dropbox page, which has since been shut down.Ī student who feared she was on the list informed school officials of the page’s existence the file sharing and storage website on Wednesday. These rules aren’t arbitrary, y’know – they’re meant to keep your naked body yours to look at and no one else’s to peep, ya hear? You don’t want to end up like the FIFTY Duxbury High School students who got hit with a nude photo scandal from a Dropbox account…or do you? That violates rule #1 but not rules 2 and 3, so we’ll allow that. That’s not too bad, right? Maybe you’re taking a few nudes just to see how your ass looks in natural lighting. Rule #3: Sure as hell never send them to anyone If you can’t handle that rule (and come on, how hard is it to NOT take a naked picture of yourself), then there are only two rules left you need to follow: There are three rules when it comes to taking nude photos of yourself: ![]()
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