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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37882973
Los Angeles police have charged Playboy model Dani Mathers over a "body-shaming" image she took of an older woman in a gym locker room. The picture of the naked 70-year-old was taken in LA Fitness in July without her consent and posted on social media. She uploaded the photo to Snapchat alongside one of herself and the caption: "If I can't unsee this then you can't either". Ms Mathers faces a charge of invasion of privacy. She could face up to six months in jail and a $1,000 (£800) fine if convicted.
Ms Mathers, 29, apologised soon after uploading the image, saying she thought her Snapchat post had been a private conversation and acknowledging that "body-shaming" is wrong. However, her lawyer, Thomas Mesereau, is quoted in the Los Angeles Times as saying his client did nothing illegal, neither invading anyone's privacy nor violating any laws. Announcing the decision to charge the model, Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer took aim at "body-shaming", calling it "humiliating, with often painful, long-term consequences".
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 06 2016, @09:11PM
If it had been a guy taking a picture in a public change room he would be charged as a sex offender, just sayin'.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 06 2016, @09:18PM
Same if he took a cute female child as a bride.
Which is allowed under the Law of the God of the 5th lawbook in the Torah.
Ch 22, verses 28-29, in hebrew.
He also says to kill anyone enticing one to follow another judge/ruler/god.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday November 06 2016, @09:35PM
Or could it be you're actually all bark and no bite? Could it be you're another homebound mental cripple like Roosh, living in his mother's basement and subsisting on Hot Pockets and all-consuming personal inadequacy? Could it be you're...small time?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 06 2016, @10:18PM
DFTT
(Score: 4, Insightful) by julian on Sunday November 06 2016, @11:54PM
I feel like there's an entire world of insider politics on this site that I know nothing about.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 06 2016, @11:59PM
Makes me that little bit happier that I'm an AC.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday November 07 2016, @12:15AM
Our AC here is also known as MikeeUSA, Mikhail Kvaratskhelia, FizzBuzz, and a number of other names. He's...how do I put this...he really really likes little girls. He's known for constantly citing Deuteronomy in support of his paedophiliac predilictions, making death threats against feminists, and a bunch more. I'm pretty much everything he hates, and when I decided to see just how nuts he was on IRC a bit over a year ago, he went completely apeshit on me, including death threats.
Which he, of course, hasn't got the stones to follow through on :)
I'll let his ED article speak for itself. Incidentally, I am told he wrote most of this, which...would make me pity him if he weren't such a complete waste of oxygen. https://encyclopediadramatica.se/MikeeUSA [encyclopediadramatica.se]
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by julian on Monday November 07 2016, @02:23AM
I've seen those AC posts before. I thought he was just a strangely persistent troll but apparently he's sincere.
What a strange person.
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Monday November 07 2016, @03:32AM
"What a strange person."
I love this.
This is as far as anybody's reaction should go toward people like the AC in question. I actually laugh hysterically at some of the extremely sincere ridiculous things that MikeeUSA has said online. It's just so unique a mental condition that I can't help but be intrigued.
I look at him like I would look at an 8 1/2-leafed clover. Botanists and moralists might throw a fit about the condition of the soil being irradiated leading to such a mutation, think that something like an 8 1/2 leafed clover shouldn't exist, that it should be "banned", stomped on, etc. when there is really no way of stopping the nature of mutations or the nature of people.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday November 07 2016, @05:19AM
Personally I suspect there's more to it than that. I suspect you sense some kinship here. Yuck...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Monday November 07 2016, @04:37PM
"Yuck."
Oh, if only this were a safe space where everyone cared about your fee-fees...
No, I just spend enough time online to know that he is not truly unusual in his extremism, he is simply more vocal and creative. I see progressives quite literally defending rape based on the race and religion of the rapist on a regular basis, and they are not unsupported. I also see feminists defending provably-false rape accusers, who (I say this as a victim of sexual abuse) ultimately are the girls-who-cry-wolf for the rest of us.
By the way, have you seen Saturday's most recent interview with Julian Assange? You can find it on RT's Youtube channel, it's very informative.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday November 07 2016, @05:39PM
Oh take your "safe space" horseshit and shove it up your ass so hard all four of your grandparents choke on it in hell. You think you're the only one who's been through shit in this world? Too bad it doesn't seem to have taught you even basic human decency.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Tuesday November 08 2016, @02:58PM
[TRIGGER WARNING]
Whoops, forgot to give you a trigger warning before proving you wrong!
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday November 08 2016, @05:46PM
Christ, do you actually think I'm one of those fragile little latte-swilling middle-class jackasses in Ugg boots?
Listen, cupcake, I spent time homeless and still have to eat from trash cans now and then. With two jobs, and a clean lifestyle. I've seen shit that would make you plaster what little brain you have all over the wall of the nearest back alley. Don't you fucking dare patronize me with that idiocy.
Also, newsflash: freedom of speech means you're free to say what you wish, and I'm free to ridicule it mercilessly, as it deserves. Of the two of us, it sounds like you're the one who needs a "safe space." gb2/hugbox/, kthx; the grownups are talking now.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Wednesday November 09 2016, @04:35AM
Loving that butthurt. I don't even remember what comment I posted that triggered you, I just saw your online tough-guy post and reacted accordingly. Now you're giving me an oppression olypmics speech? This is why people hate Outrage Culture.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday November 09 2016, @04:56AM
> tough-guy
Um, miiiiight wanna check an assumption or three there. And maybe tone down the projection a little? I'm actually getting embarrassed FOR you, reading this stuff.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Wednesday November 09 2016, @03:36PM
>Focusing on gender instead of content
That really says it all. You are making emotional appeals and grasping at straws, not focusing on the content of my message and forming logical arguments to rebuke them.
You are not a person who derives their views from reason, which is why you voted for Hillary Clinton, why you told a victim of sexual abuse to shove their abuse "up their grandmother's ass," and why you are now trying to "embarrass" somebody online, somehow, by not really doing or saying anything of note to disprove their positions.
Read your comment one more time, critically - as you would a book by Nabokov or Toni Morrison: You did not state a single fact, position, or argument. You gave - in order - an allusion, a baseless accusation (That means without evidence, which I know you don't like), and a petty appeal to some social standing that you imagine I believe myself to have.
You have failed as a critical commentator in every way - by not only being unaware of the subject matter, but by also not being able to directly write about it.
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Monday November 07 2016, @01:16AM
In addition to what Azuma said, personally I think MikeeUSA's just pissed because his god's haircut sucks [wikia.com].
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday November 07 2016, @10:40AM
I don't think so. But there are known characters. Most of them have their eccentricities. Nearly all have their hobby horses--I know I have mine.
This pedophile is a special kind of troll. I don't think I've ever seen a post of his that wasn't modded into a smoking crater. He never contributes anything useful to the discussions here. But SN has the inherited tradition of not censoring user accounts, no matter how vile they are. So he persists. That he does, despite universal opprobrium, tells you all you need to know about his mental state.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 07 2016, @12:59AM
Oh, just move to Iran already.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 06 2016, @09:50PM
> If it had been a guy taking a picture in a public change room he would be charged as a sex offender, just sayin'.
Examples?
No?
So really, you were just telling us a story about who you are, rather than about men not getting equal treatment.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 06 2016, @11:51PM
Here's some of the examples I found with 1 minute of googling. Apparently it is quite common for guys to be put on the sex offenders list for stuff like this. I got tired of pointing out your obvious mistake. I guess, really, it's you making up stories...
http://www.fortmcmurraytoday.com/2014/01/08/man-gets-2-years-for-photographing-girls-in-change-rooms [fortmcmurraytoday.com]
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/twin-secretly-filmed-semi-boys-changing-8221864?pageNumber=18 [walesonline.co.uk]
https://www.hg.org/article.asp?id=23535 [hg.org]
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/11872062.Pervert_who_took_photos_of_teenage_girl_in_Primark_changing_room_put_on_sex_offenders_register/ [bournemouthecho.co.uk]
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 07 2016, @01:41AM
Hello dummy, every single one your examples are of adults voyeuristically filming children.
One of your examples isn't even an example, its just a random essay.
Come back when you have an example of a grown man taking pictures of old men in a locker room without voyeuristic intent.
Oh that's right, there are no examples. Sayonara, shit for brains!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 07 2016, @03:18AM
Yikes! Somebody is off their meds today!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 07 2016, @10:43AM
http://thoughtcatalog.com/james-b-barnes/2014/09/new-study-proves-that-men-dont-slut-shame-rich-women-do/ [thoughtcatalog.com]
Also, men taking pictures of women without consent is by definition sexual assault. Bye bye.
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Monday November 07 2016, @12:15AM
If you are searching for equality, ask yourself why sports coaches can urinate in public (in front of thousands of people) without getting prosecuted for exposing themselves?
(Score: 2) by Sarasani on Monday November 07 2016, @01:42AM
Maybe because sports is kinda like a pissing contest?
(Score: 2) by edIII on Monday November 07 2016, @05:54AM
Some animals are more equal than others. I do recall meeting a man who told me has was a sex offender. When I asked why, he said he urinated in public within 500 feet of an elementary school, and somebody saw him. I didn't get into more than that, but it he made it clear that all he was doing was peeing.
Whether real or imagined, it's a very big threat to men with the idea of accidental exposure and/or bodily functions like peeing making a sex offender out of you (the same situation above was in a movie). Meaning, it has nothing to do with your intentions whatsoever. It has everything to do with the public viewing of your winky.
Considering the insanity of turning young men into sex offenders for receiving a naked pic from their underage girl friend (who they were with before they were 18), it's even more insane to turn the girl into a sex offender for taking pictures of herself.
Those things have happened, and been in the news. It's by no means an intelligent affair when it comes to sex offenders in general. Not all of them are the obvious trenchcoat perverts that the stereotypes would have us believe, and too often it is a blunt instrument like catching Dolphins in Tuna fishing.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 07 2016, @04:58PM
I don't watch sports and don't care to view naked men, but still I must ask: is that really a thing? If so, is it a practice at some podunk college out in the sticks with an open-air "half-potty"? You're making it sound like there's the potential for the Seattle Seahawks coach to be out in front of the stands while indulging the need to whip out and drain the lizard right there in front of everyone.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 07 2016, @04:53PM
The difference is a guy is more able to understand the consequences of his actions than a woman. We can't use the same standard for man and woman any more than for man and kid. There's a reason women can't vote.