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@anc wrote:
. . . . As for Princess Di and others, I think they wanted to have their pics taken.
Same goes for Kate and Harry – they’re hardly naiive teenagers . . .
I think her point was that it was a good job that victims spoke up when badly treated as it changed things. I thought your reply was that by speaking up, they were raising the subject unnecessarily and stopping it from dying out, but that’s all done with.
I don’t think these photos are a big deal. Lack of privacy is part of the Faustian pact the rich, famous and powerful make in order to maintain their wealth, position and influence. I guess public fascination is part of it.
Despite their undoubtedly picturesque nature your breasts are not objects of fascination to the general public, so even if you put them on display in the local high street, the international media wouldn’t be interested. So this incident won’t affect your privacy or mine and there will be no change in the law.
Kate’s position is different. How the paps (phnar! phnar!) found out where she was is one question, what would have happened if someone more dangerous did is another. But that’s about security and “they” have probably already dug deep into the matter.
However she does have access to places which cannot be overlooked even from a distance, so her misjudgement on this occasion will sell a few papers and keep us all talking about something other than David Cameron’s plan to take us all back to the 1950’s (just wait for the ration cards and the roll back from HD colour to black and white TV).
Maybe by making a fuss they just make things worse – I think they’d be better off laughing it off and getting on with life. After all intrusive media attention of the rich and famous is only to be expected.
Heartiest Congratulations!!!
Grown woman has breasts? Where’s the news?
Doesn’t making a fuss about it and expressing all that outrage just just raise the premium on the pics and so make it more likely it will happen again?
If nothing had been said about them, wouldn’t they just go away?
@jen_jen wrote:
Every time I read that story it brings a lump to my throat.
You never know what is going on the lives of people you meet and kindness in words and gesture don’t need to cost a penny.
Agreed Jen, in person and online
A famous man once said, “you can’t serve God and Mammon”.
If you define God in the broad sense as goodness, love and wisdom, then it does seem that the worship of money (as opposed to the usefulness of money) is incompatible. Especially when its main icons are arbitrary, politically determined margins or budget figures.
But not enough people vote for goodness, love and wisdom over balance sheets these days, so what are the chances that the Gadarene saunter towards destruction will ever be halted?
The Olympics and Paralympics show what we can achieve materially, symbolically, socially and spiritually when it is decided that a worthwhile goal shall be reached and not allowed to fail because of budgetary limits.
I wonder if the politicians who enabled that will be able to facilitate the same kind of vision in our more everyday concerns.
My kind of taxi ride, thanks Cath xx
It’s the 21st Century, we’ll just bulldoze the whole house, anc’n’all into the swimming pool, chuck some bags of cement on top of it, smooth it over and use it as the foundation for a new drive thru burger bar.
