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I’m Against ‘Revenge Porn,’ But . . .

Posted on | September 24, 2013 | 43 Comments

. . . proposals to create laws against it strike me as troubling:

Revenge porn sites feature explicit photos posted by ex-boyfriends, ex-husbands and ex-lovers, often accompanied by disparaging descriptions and identifying details, like where the women live and work, as well as links to their Facebook pages. The sites, which are proliferating, are largely immune to criminal pursuit. But that may be changing. California lawmakers this month passed the first law aimed at revenge porn sites.
With cellphone cameras ubiquitous and many Americans giving in to the urge to document even the most intimate aspects of their lives, revenge porn has opened up new ways to wreak vengeance.
The effects can be devastating. Victims say they have lost jobs, been approached in stores by strangers who recognized their photographs, and watched close friendships and family relationships dissolve. Some have changed their names or altered their appearance. . . .

What is so difficult about, “Don’t share nude pictures of yourself”? And if you’re not going to share them, why take nude photos of yourself?

Of course, guys who seek revenge by publishing their ex-girlfriends’ pictures are worthless scum, and if all the operators of “revenge porn” sites were beaten to death with ball-peen hammers, I wouldn’t lament their deaths. But legislating against this practice, and then spending taxpayer dollars to enforce anti-“revenge porn” laws, seems a bit much, just to protect women from their own stupidity:

He was a muscular guy with “kind of a nerdy kind of charm,” Marianna Taschinger recalled, a combination that proved irresistible to an 18-year-old girl in a small Texas town.
They dated, broke up, dated again. He asked her to pick out a wedding ring. He also made another request — that she take nude pictures of herself and send them to him.
“He said if I didn’t want to send them to him, that meant that I didn’t trust him, which meant that I didn’t love him,” Ms. Taschinger said.
The photos would never be shared with anyone else, she remembers him promising. And she believed him — until last December, more than a year after the couple broke up, when a dozen nude images of her popped up on a Web site focusing on what has become known as revenge porn. She is suing the site and her ex-boyfriend.

OK, so she’s suing the creeps. Good for her. Pursuing a civil lawsuit is her right. But whose fault is it that Marianna Taschinger is (or once was) such a fool for muscular guys with nerdy charm that she sent him a dozen naked pictures of herself?

Is making the world safe for dumb girls a national priority?

 

Category: Crime, Sex

Comments

43 Responses to “I’m Against ‘Revenge Porn,’ But . . .”

  1. rsmccain
    September 24th, 2013 @ 2:04 pm

    I’m Against ‘Revenge Porn,’ But … http://t.co/ZxSeP9zc30

  2. aewlabode
    September 24th, 2013 @ 2:04 pm

    RT @smitty_one_each: TOM I’m Against ‘Revenge Porn,’ But . . . http://t.co/XsZFvW9IlM #TCOT

  3. rsmccain
    September 24th, 2013 @ 2:08 pm

    “Is making the world safe for dumb girls a national priority?” http://t.co/ZxSeP9zc30

  4. PATR2014
    September 24th, 2013 @ 2:08 pm

    RT @rsmccain: “Is making the world safe for dumb girls a national priority?” http://t.co/ZxSeP9zc30

  5. RS
    September 24th, 2013 @ 2:09 pm

    With all the Feminist Ideologues running about unsupervised and indoctrinating young women, it’s a wonder said young women haven’t learned rule 1 about respect: Nobody’s going to respect you, if you don’t respect yourself, as exemplified by disseminating incriminating photos and video of yourself.

  6. M. Thompson
    September 24th, 2013 @ 2:10 pm

    If you’re a Feminist, then you’re all about protecting women from their follies while demanding “Equality!” And “Empowerment!” at the top of your lungs. Dead Dick, about where in Hell do they end up?

  7. CatO9Tailz
    September 24th, 2013 @ 2:14 pm

    RT @rsmccain: “Is making the world safe for dumb girls a national priority?” http://t.co/ZxSeP9zc30

  8. keithh1981
    September 24th, 2013 @ 2:17 pm

    RT @smitty_one_each: TOM I’m Against ‘Revenge Porn,’ But . . . http://t.co/XsZFvW9IlM #TCOT

  9. Frankly Bored
    September 24th, 2013 @ 2:18 pm

    Make the world idiot-proof and the world will produce a totally new breed of idiot…

  10. Russwkoch
    September 24th, 2013 @ 2:19 pm

    RT @rsmccain: “Is making the world safe for dumb girls a national priority?” http://t.co/ZxSeP9zc30

  11. Bob Belvedere
    September 24th, 2013 @ 2:20 pm

    All we need is another Special Snowflake law.

  12. LN_Smithee
    September 24th, 2013 @ 2:23 pm

    Gotta disagree. You wrote:

    guys who seek revenge by publishing their ex-girlfriends’ pictures are worthless scum, and if all the operators of “revenge porn” sites were beaten to death with ball-peen hammers, I wouldn’t lament their deaths. But legislating against this practice, and then spending taxpayer dollars to enforce anti-”revenge porn” laws, seems a bit much, just to protect women from their own stupidity…

    Don’t think of it as “protect[ing] women from their own stupidity,” think of it as a ball-peen slap on the wrist (and wallet) for worthless scum.

    California Dems are blind squirrels who found a nut on this one.

  13. Ken in NH
    September 24th, 2013 @ 2:34 pm

    We must enact reasonable laws against female infatuation and general stupidity. That will stop all these bad things from happening; just like gun laws have stopped all violence.

  14. LibertyUnyieldi
    September 24th, 2013 @ 2:37 pm

    RT @rsmccain: “Is making the world safe for dumb girls a national priority?” http://t.co/ZxSeP9zc30

  15. BobBelvedere
    September 24th, 2013 @ 2:43 pm

    RT @rsmccain: “Is making the world safe for dumb girls a national priority?” http://t.co/ZxSeP9zc30

  16. richard mcenroe
    September 24th, 2013 @ 2:49 pm

    And while we’re at it, can we admit that whole giving them the vote thing really just hasn’t worked out.

  17. robertstacymccain
    September 24th, 2013 @ 2:53 pm

    It’s about “Nerf World,” where everything is padded with foam to protect us from our own stupidity.

  18. richard mcenroe
    September 24th, 2013 @ 2:54 pm

    You know, there’s an opportunity here for an entrepornoorish type, you know, like someone with access to their own servers or something, to really make a pile with a “My Shitbird ExBoyfriend” site where young ladies could return the favor. Make some money AND strike a blow for fair play.

  19. MeasureForMeasure
    September 24th, 2013 @ 3:18 pm

    The dumb clucks who agree to send their boyfriends nude photos are only marginally less stupid than they ones who are emotionally blackmailed into having sex before marriage-and uncomfortable about it-cause “you would if you loved me.” Let lover boy jack off in his bunk to somebody elses nude photos

  20. thatMrGguy
    September 24th, 2013 @ 3:36 pm

    I’m Against ‘Revenge Porn,’ But . . . http://t.co/qvSg7lrDxR

  21. Quartermaster
    September 24th, 2013 @ 3:56 pm

    By the way, why ball peen hammers? What’s wrong with hatchets?

  22. rmnixondeceased
    September 24th, 2013 @ 4:05 pm

    The lovely asbestos beach surrounding the everlasting lake of fire, wherein they will spend endless hours making inchoate sounds as their blood boils and their flesh crisps, blackens and peels away … eternally.

  23. M. Thompson
    September 24th, 2013 @ 4:10 pm

    There’s more pain with the hammers.

  24. markaminc
    September 24th, 2013 @ 4:34 pm

    I’m Against ‘Revenge Porn,’ But . . . : The Other McCain http://t.co/gT47iUU2Wc

  25. Finrod Felagund
    September 24th, 2013 @ 5:08 pm

    Well, the hatchets don’t have to be sharpened.

  26. Finrod Felagund
    September 24th, 2013 @ 5:12 pm

    You would think they would be able to sue them for copyright violations. Big companies have been abusing copyright law for forever, it’s about time it be used for something useful. And hey, porn companies have to jump through all kinds of legal hoops to vend their wares, so ex-boyfriends that don’t take the time to go through those same hoops should be exposed to the full brunt of the law.

    I guess it seems to me that there are already legal remedies out there for this kind of thing.

  27. Matthew W
    September 24th, 2013 @ 5:16 pm

    No, they should call the website:
    “My Ex jerk boyfriend with the tiny penis”

  28. Jon Camp
    September 24th, 2013 @ 5:39 pm

    Just drug everyone daily into not feeling anything. Haven’t you seen Equlibrium? It was quite the utopia until Christian Bale’s character had to mess it all up 😉

  29. ChrisDavis2011
    September 24th, 2013 @ 6:00 pm

    as to the very last line in the article….

    All the good people said, Amen, Amen, and Amen

  30. ChrisDavis2011
    September 24th, 2013 @ 6:07 pm

    I presume you are not using the word blow in the pejorative, at least not universally applied to all males even those who do not post nude pictures to revenge sites!

  31. tlk244182
    September 24th, 2013 @ 6:51 pm

    On TV a while back it said the Hell’s Angels like to use ball peen hammers. I defer to their professional judgement.

  32. Lockestep1776
    September 24th, 2013 @ 6:55 pm

    I’m Against ‘Revenge Porn,’ But . . .: . . . proposals to create laws against it strike me as troubling: Reven… http://t.co/W9dcgeMneL

  33. MrEvilMatt
    September 24th, 2013 @ 6:55 pm

    I’m Against ‘Revenge Porn,’ But . . .: . . . proposals to create laws against it strike me as troubling: Reven… http://t.co/G2qv70x7R2

  34. jwbrown1969
    September 24th, 2013 @ 6:55 pm

    I’m Against ‘Revenge Porn,’ But . . .: . . . proposals to create laws against it strike me as troubling: Reven… http://t.co/thn0oZKz42

  35. Quartermaster
    September 24th, 2013 @ 7:09 pm

    You win 🙂

  36. BredRightAndTrue
    September 24th, 2013 @ 7:44 pm

    Our nation has been “suffragin'” ever since. *smh*

  37. BredRightAndTrue
    September 24th, 2013 @ 7:52 pm

    You get what you get. You get what you give. You reap what you sow. Too bad…so sad. Blah. Blah. Blah.

    It all boils down to — Stupid is as stupid does. *pfft*

  38. Italia_Federici
    September 24th, 2013 @ 8:26 pm

    Finally, something to read in the “ball-peen hammer payback against muscular guys w/ nerdy charm” genre RT @rsmccain http://t.co/zRrvJBAz4r

  39. Fareedi al Laayla al Qakhaul
    September 24th, 2013 @ 9:27 pm

    Aren’t the people who publish this stuff required to keep a “18 USC § 2257 Compliance Statement”, and can’t this regulation be used to take these sites down?

  40. trangbang68
    September 24th, 2013 @ 11:35 pm

    There might be a growth industry in the future for counseling people who are dealing with buckets of shame for being such repulsive jackasses in their youth

  41. Good Stuff
    September 25th, 2013 @ 1:01 am

    the inverse is true

    Internet vigilantism and honey traps are on the rise. So far, digital avengers have more or less limited their activities to shaming and exposing pedophiles, con men and giant douchebags. However, one can easily see a future where the moral-minded folks dish their harsh citizen justice out on anyone who steps outside the tight parameters of their idea of acceptable behavior.

  42. Wombat_socho
    September 25th, 2013 @ 5:03 am

    I see what you did there.

  43. McGehee
    September 25th, 2013 @ 10:09 am

    And as examples to support this argument, I give the reader Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi…