As a person on the spectrum between male and female, when people have such gender-normative reactions when something jumps outside of their prescribed "men & boys are this" and "women & girls are this" and there's no allowance for deviation from those two, it can be difficult/problematic/dangerous for me because I…

It reads pretty much like the text I routinely write for our images, though. I design and produce content for an education company, and quite a bit of our descriptive text for images is like this - it's a requirement for people with visual impairments. I do the writing, and it's edited by accessibility specialists.…

there are ways of accessing the internet (text readers, Braille keyboards) for the blind.

In case you can't see with your eyes, here are some words Today used to describe the ensemble:

Looking around at other images on Today, it looks like they provide descriptive text for many photos for accessibility reasons. We're do that at my job for people with vision impairments.

But but but, think of the menz. If all of us ladies stop taking pics, WHOSE naked pics will they look at? People who make money off of their pictures? Well, they're whores. People who don't? Well, they're stupid sluts. People who don't take pictures? Well, they're stuck up sex-negative prudes who hate men.

According the NPR today, everything is automatically saved to the icloud when deleted- the more you know. They need to get some 'for reals I want this permanently deleted' double delete system going.

HAHAHAHA! Well, don't you know that ladies are supposed to be whores or puritan princess prudes on command? In all seriousness though, your comment reminded me of the batty old lady I lived across from during college. She used to open her window and scream at me to "put some damn clothes on when you're walking around…

Actually I think your banking analogy is on point. Today we also learned that Home Depot was hacked, but I haven't seen any suggestions that all those customers should have used cash because we all know big box retail servers are vulnerable to hacking. But where's the pleasure in shaming some dude who bought a toilet?

I welcome our new hamster overlords!

Sitting on top of a huge pile of money laughing themselves sick and getting ready to charge exorbitant fees to "attempt" to remove your data from the cloud. That's where they are.

If someone steals your locked and alarmed car in the parking lot a block from your house, he is not less of a thief than the one who breaks into your garage to steal your car. If we want to protect society and punish criminals, we have to put the focus on the crime and the criminal, not the victim's choices.

Or paying 10,000 for untouched Lena Dunham pics from her Vogue shoot, against her consent.

Yeah, this is something that I've wondered as well... if they got these photos from iCloud then where on earth was Apple's security? and more importantly: Why is no-one questioning how these guys got through security and how safe anything else stored on the cloud is.

There have been heaps or articles either slut…

Here's hoping those twits have never sent any women a dick pic. Maybe those should be spread far and wide, if it's not a big deal.

Not to mention that all the dudes who are simultaneously victim blaming/slut shaming these women while furiously masturbating to their photos are totally the type who would freak out if they asked their partner for a naked picture and she declined.

I mentioned it in another comment, but this is seriously no different than staking out in a tree with a super zoom camera lens and waiting for someone to undress and get in the shower. More people would agree that that is a violation of privacy, but really it's not that different than having your private photos hacked…

plus which, if mark had that kind of authority around here, i suspect the rest of the staff would be fired and replaced by a collection of adorable rodents.

Never mind that Mary Elizabeth Winstead took those photos with her husband and then deleted them. It wouldn't be anywhere close to okay, regardless, but she did "everything right" according to these people and her pictures are still there.

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