The charade of nudity

So, apparently, the Facebook world has come alive over leaked photos of Jennifer Lawrence and articles have condemned the hacker's view of "women who have nude photos are sluts and whores". Rightly so. But, I wonder, if they realize they have glorified his point of view to the world even through denunciation. Who on earth would care two hoots about a hacker's POV on who sluts and whores are? Male chauvinists?

I haven't seen the pictures as yet. May be someday I will google and have an opinion such as 'okay' or 'nice' or 'absolutely delish'. Of the little bit Jennifer Lawrence that I have seen, she is absolutely ravishing and appears brilliant.

I say, as far as the human race goes, men women alike, sexual fantasy is going to excite us. Not just with celebrities but with regular people who cross our paths and invoke chemicals in our body. We also have a word, apodyopsis, the act of mentally undressing someone, to articulate that innate beginning of lust. Why otherwise would Pamela Anderson's leaked sex tapes make headlines? Some of us may have well passed that phase and some of us never will.

I support that Jennifer's private matters shouldn't be leaked online and she or any other woman is entitled to click as many nude photos of themselves as they like, even strut around naked on the streets, as long as it doesn't offend larger public sensibilities on those streets or is illegal. Also, I am with her in solidarity because it can be a traumatic experience (as revealed through Anna Scott's character in Notting Hill).

However, the first thing that bothers me of this episode is the hypocrisy. During the FIFA 2014 worldcup, nude photos of the Croatian team appeared online. Some media photographers put them there. Are we saying that the hacker and these media photographers have similar sensibilities and while we are striving for an equal world, why is the treatment of leaking out female nudity to male treated differently?

I realize that women, even today, are perceived as objects of desire but we have seen movies like disclosure where a woman can play the 'victim' to her advantage. In real life, I have met a few Indian husbands, whose wives fucked them as part of divorce settlements and also alleged that the father abused his own child to win full child custody. That is the world we will come to live in if we don't look at facts and simply favor somebody on basis of gender.

In response to all this marketing fluff that has appeared on the Facebook world, which I am not sure if is aimed to liberate the women species, I simply point out that we have actresses who have played the nudity card as a symbol of liberty and freedom: the lethal Catherine Tramell of Basic Instinct who sensationalized the screen in her skin and Gia who trotted like a naked child outside an elevator compelling her lover to stay back. Both did so in such candor, caring two hoots of worldly perception, giving some men, some women and a certain gender identities the definitive meaning of "You are somebody's reason to masturbate".

Now, after I have given two hoots to this entire charade of nudity, I am going to delve over more important things such as my Saturday and what to do with it.

p.s. I hear Jolie got married with a veil that had illustrations of her kids' drawings. That woman is PERFECT.