The blog post is right to point out that if this were reversed in gender, it would absolutely not be tolerated. This would be all over Jezebel and Feministing et al. It would stir outrage.What do you mean it would not be tolerated? Not tolerated by whome? Sites like People of walmart (and their sister site, 'beach creeps') exist solely to make fun of ugly people, and that gets a lot of press. Those sites are mixed-gender but I'm sure you could find sites dedicated to pictures of surreptitiously photographed hot girls.
...founders - four young professional flatmates from south London who wish to be known only as Stephen, Andy, Gemma and Michael,.Three of those names are male, as are many of the submitters' names. It seems to be primarily "men objectifying men", not "women objectifying men."
a recent court case upheld a right to eat a meal in a restaurant in privacy even though the restaurant owner had consented to the photography, because in the court's view it was a customer's normal expectation not to be photographed there. If in doubt, this is probably the question to ask yourself.Why yes, yes I do have, and everybody I know has, a normal expectation not to be unwittingly close-up photographed while taking public transportation. (And re people's likenesses being submitted for collective online judgment, well, it's one more legal way for assholes to exercise their legal rights to open up wide & take a dump.) Being photographed as one of a crowd taking public transportation, fine.
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