I will admit that I watched it, couldn't help it. Reminds me of when I was about 12 years old, we went to some old guys house to go swimming for a field trip. He had a giant indoor pool. Dude lived out in the country but somehow he made money renting out this pool or something. I don't remember much but I was a young kid then. Anyhoooooo.... He had home built changing rooms that could only fit one person at a time. They had lights but were made out of plywood. Kinda rickety if memory serves. So, I brushed up against the light switch and the light turned off. Before I could find the switch to turn it back on, I noticed light coming through a crack between the boards. I COULD SEE RIGHT IN THE GIRLS CHANGING ROOM. Anyway, after about 20 minutes people were banging on the door telling me to hurry up As I got older, I realized that the old perv had to have known about this. Believe it or not, whenever I am in a hotel bathroom taking a shower I randomly flip the bird at the mirror and the corners of the room. Just want them to know that I know I might be being watched. I bet they flip the camera off right quick when the get a sight of me.
You are such a good person. Did you look at your "What Would Jesus Do?" wrist-band before you decided if you would watch it or not?
"Privacy, it seems, is the new nudity." New? Voyeurism has been popular for a long, long time. The writer is, bizarrely, trying to explain something that has been common knowledge for...ever? There's an allure for many in getting to see something you weren't supposed to see. I actually think she gets it wrong. She says this: I think it's a lot more than that. It's not just a desire to see that "stars are just like real people." It's a desire to take something. Most people can't have sex with Erin Andrews, but they can, now, see her naked against her will. It's a (fleeting) sense of power.
I don't go to church and I'm not religious. I do recognize consent versus a lack of consent for a video, however. What was your point? Did you get your jollies watching some poor woman have her privacy invaded by some pervert? I bet you did...
It frankly says more about the person viewing it than it says anything about Erin Andrews. Kind of a litmus test for common decency for me. I realize that's extreme in this environment, but I see nothing at all that can be gained by validating the voyeurism in this video. It's a basic assault on privacy, and I hope Andrews deals with the heckles she'll be getting from morons at sporting events this fall who viewed her. Edit - not that viewing the tape makes one a moron. I meant that the hecklers, which will appear, are morons.
Absolutely. It says nothing about Andrews, except that she was unlucky. I probably wouldn't go that far, since I think mere curiosity is also pretty prevalent. What drives this as a story is the "desirable woman in a helpless position" which I do think is a pretty unfortunate part of human nature, the excitement generated from seeing someone helpless or humiliated (and it's widespread...in a more minor form, it's part of why lots of sports fans enjoy seeing Ewing getting posterized by Jordan). But once it's become a big story, I don't think anyone who gets curious and views it is a bad person.
IMO, people like you who say they wont watch the video, and you are such a good person for not watching, and you are a moral hero, and you would never do anything so bad in your life, and you just go on and on and on about how bad it is to watch a video like this, how dare us... you are the person I would watch out for. Not someone who watched the video. Beware the chi-mo!
So my opinion on an assault on privacy upset you this much? I don't think people watching it are bad people, but they certainly are voyeurs. I suppose I could join in talking about how hot she is, and what she is doing in the video. Then I could be cool! I never said I was a good person, either. Making stuff up to project on me to validate/rationalize your own guilt for watching it? Perhaps...
Why? Because I don't want to watch a woman unknowingly be filmed naked through a peephole? OK boss, whatever you say.
