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For a few hours, young women were taking snapshots of their nakedness and uploading it to twitter for the WORLD to see.
To say that I was shocked is a severe understatement, and I am surprised that it did not have any more people standing up in arms over this. Perhaps we were too busy reeling from Max and Montle’s audacity.
Instead, people seem to have accepted that this is the degenerative state of our society whereby we tolerate whatever bullshit we are exposed to.
But, no. Because just the week before, we were out on a public lynching mission with FHM’s Max and Montle being our desired victims and they jumped on the “Open Letter to South Africa bus” and we turned our back on them after spitting on their ‘apology’ and carried on with our merry lives.
Meanwhile, your daughter could have been instagram-ing her vajayjay and uploading it to Twitter while you sat in your comfy chair by the fire, reading your paper and wondering if Kate was going to drop this royal baby yet. Well, she did. Kate, not your daughter.
So, yes, there it was, a number of illicit photographs being uploaded to the Twittersphere while we sipped our tea and complained about the weather. Ye gads, some girl has managed to give us a shot of her boobs in the same picture. Is this the free and easy porn that they speak of? No, man. Put that shit away. I certainly do not need to see your coochie in the various filters Twitpic now offers us. No thank you.
More importantly, though, what does this say about us as people? Is this really freedom of expression? Yes, you may have the option to take naked pictures of yourself, and yes, you may share them with whomever you want, and fine, go ahead, upload them to Twitter and Facebook – no problem. But do you actually want to be that person?
Your private parts are private for a damn reason. It’s not meant to be splashed across Twitter timelines along with blatant coaxing to your followers to come and ‘have a go’ and/ or descriptors that belong in hardcore pornos. No. Stop it.
How about you Twitpic your integrity? Oh wait, you’ve lost that along with your self-respect.
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To say that I was shocked is a severe understatement, and I am surprised that it did not have any more people standing up in arms over this. Perhaps we were too busy reeling from Max and Montle’s audacity.
Instead, people seem to have accepted that this is the degenerative state of our society whereby we tolerate whatever bullshit we are exposed to.
But, no. Because just the week before, we were out on a public lynching mission with FHM’s Max and Montle being our desired victims and they jumped on the “Open Letter to South Africa bus” and we turned our back on them after spitting on their ‘apology’ and carried on with our merry lives.
Meanwhile, your daughter could have been instagram-ing her vajayjay and uploading it to Twitter while you sat in your comfy chair by the fire, reading your paper and wondering if Kate was going to drop this royal baby yet. Well, she did. Kate, not your daughter.
So, yes, there it was, a number of illicit photographs being uploaded to the Twittersphere while we sipped our tea and complained about the weather. Ye gads, some girl has managed to give us a shot of her boobs in the same picture. Is this the free and easy porn that they speak of? No, man. Put that shit away. I certainly do not need to see your coochie in the various filters Twitpic now offers us. No thank you.
More importantly, though, what does this say about us as people? Is this really freedom of expression? Yes, you may have the option to take naked pictures of yourself, and yes, you may share them with whomever you want, and fine, go ahead, upload them to Twitter and Facebook – no problem. But do you actually want to be that person?
Your private parts are private for a damn reason. It’s not meant to be splashed across Twitter timelines along with blatant coaxing to your followers to come and ‘have a go’ and/ or descriptors that belong in hardcore pornos. No. Stop it.
How about you Twitpic your integrity? Oh wait, you’ve lost that along with your self-respect.
To read more from Lauren, click here.
You can also Follow Women24 on Twitter.
