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    Team Rocket GruntErin Gloria Ryan
    9/05/14 1:36pm

    Done and done. Thank's Erin!

    Unrelated, anyone want to hangout tonight at the graveyard? I'm feeling... thirsty.

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      Erin Gloria RyanTeam Rocket Grunt
      9/05/14 1:48pm

      I AM SO SCARED RIGHT NOW

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      thisisamazonmanTeam Rocket Grunt
      9/05/14 1:52pm

      Please tell me you made that. I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

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    ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ : Riot GRRR is RUNNING WILDErin Gloria Ryan
    9/05/14 1:44pm

    I wonder how many of those dudes advising women to never take nude photos of themselves would call their girlfriend a prude bitch if they requested nude photos of her and she said no.

    *pssst* the answer is all of them

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      Morbid_HateBeingGrey_Realitiesʕ•ᴥ•ʔ : Riot GRRR is RUNNING WILD
      9/05/14 1:54pm

      Shit....I request them from my wife all the time. Her reply is the same every time. "Haha, no." She's no prude either.

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      ad infinitumʕ•ᴥ•ʔ : Riot GRRR is RUNNING WILD
      9/05/14 2:05pm

      A misandrist, too!

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    andsmokeit is mrs tormund giantsbaneErin Gloria Ryan
    9/05/14 1:38pm

    If a doctor or medical professional asks you to do it, nice try, Dr. Feelgood, but these clothes are staying on. Use your x-ray machine to diagnose skin cancer.

    GIF
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      MyrnaMinxandsmokeit is mrs tormund giantsbane
      9/05/14 1:44pm

      Came here to post something similar. #nevernudesunite

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      andsmokeit is mrs tormund giantsbaneMyrnaMinx
      9/05/14 1:51pm
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    nerdybirdyErin Gloria Ryan
    9/05/14 1:36pm

    How about not auto-uploading everything from your phone to the Cloud? Any time I get a new phone, it asks me if I want to automatically sync everything - like uploading every picture I take to Facebook. What?! NO. Are you kidding me? BAD IDEA.

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      All Corgis All the Timenerdybirdy
      9/05/14 1:53pm

      I reset my phone and it wanted to sync Facebook and Google + with my SD drive and I was like NO GOD NO (and all I have there is a few photos of me jogging with my dog).

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      thisisamazonmannerdybirdy
      9/05/14 1:54pm

      On a practical level? Yes.

      On an idealistic level? Why should women have to worry about having their nudes stolen from their private cloud accounts?

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    ImsorrywhatnoErin Gloria Ryan
    9/05/14 1:50pm

    I think VICE actually put out the best article about this whole Fappening issue:

    http://www.vice.com/read/roisin-kiberd-fappening-332

    Nudity is no longer intimate enough: what we want to see, most of all, is failure. And this is where the trolls get off: because they view the leaks as confirmation that the women in these pictures are stupid. "The Fappening" confirms their tenet that men, not pretty girls, are what makes the world—or at least the internet—go around. It confirms that they know more about technology, and privacy, and basic iCloud maintenance. It reassures them that the web is a patriarchal place, that the biggest risks in online life apply not to them but to nubile young women, who, granted the power of sex appeal, risk losing it all when that sex appeal is publicly distributed. You'd have to wonder if these men – who you can find in your nearest Fappening-related comments section – get off more on lecturing women about online security than they do on the actual pictures.

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      ad infinitumImsorrywhatno
      9/05/14 2:12pm

      This should really not be gray.

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      CPR14Imsorrywhatno
      9/05/14 2:18pm

      This is spot-on. Replying to hopefully get it out of the greys eventually.

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    falconflyer1Erin Gloria Ryan
    9/05/14 1:41pm

    One more: stop caring about nudity. Flaunt it! Accept it. Just like you know, catcalling is flattering and sexual harassment doesn't happen unless another white man is there to see it. So just stop caring and bask in the amazing attention.

    /s

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      crystalskullfalconflyer1
      9/05/14 1:43pm

      You touched my blackened, embittered heart with this one.

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      mxyzptlkfalconflyer1
      9/05/14 3:39pm

      That actually raises an interesting point — is this mainly an American or English-speaking-world issue? Of course sexism isn't, but in countries where nudity isn't such a big deal, I wonder if there are as many hackers trying to get their rocks off stealing private digital property.

      (Went to the west of Ireland once with some German and French college students, male and female, and was a little shocked at how unclothed they got at the hostel and how few fucks they all gave about it. No one cared, they were just brushing their teeth and getting ready for the day, planning itineraries. Then I was shocked at my being a little shocked.)

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    bob_dErin Gloria Ryan
    9/05/14 2:28pm

    Not owning a computer/phone doesn't help given that there are peeping toms, toilet-cams and camera-equipped drones (for those inaccessible windows and walled celebrity properties). Not being naked at any time doesn't work - with infrared and terahertz cameras, you can sometimes get apparently "naked" pics of clothed people. Avoiding success only means that your photos will not be so widely distributed (maybe). So that leaves not being a woman or being a supernatural entity that doesn't register in photos*. Good luck with that, ladies!

    *Well, I suppose there's also "don't distribute other people's naked pictures without consent," but that's just totally crazy.

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      Gigglewatersbob_d
      9/05/14 2:31pm

      :/ this is a very depressing scenario you just laid out

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      bob_dGigglewaters
      9/05/14 2:49pm

      Oh, it's way more depressing than that. Loss of physical privacy and loss of control over one's personal images is just the tip of the iceberg. We've entered an era when there's no control over any personal information whatsoever, and not only that, by mining that information you can uncover secrets that people have never revealed to anyone. Worst of all, the impact is disproportionately felt by whoever is already the most vulnerable within society. Such as, in this culture, all women.

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    peanuttyErin Gloria Ryan
    9/05/14 1:39pm

    Ugh, stuff like this just makes me terrified to bring children into this post-apocolyptic world.

    Also, am I the only one who is not part of the sext/nudie zeitgeist? I have like 2 pics of my boobs somewhere in my iPhoto and that's pretty much it.

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      andsmokeit is mrs tormund giantsbanepeanutty
      9/05/14 1:41pm

      I also do not take part.

      Mostly because, if a gentleman suitor would like to see me naked, he can come the fuck over and do the work himself.

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      smashtag hashbrownsandsmokeit is mrs tormund giantsbane
      9/05/14 1:58pm
      GIF
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    bosscheddarErin Gloria Ryan
    9/05/14 1:35pm

    Avoid being sexually attractive

    CHECK!

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      thisisamazonmanErin Gloria Ryan
      9/05/14 1:52pm

      This list is brilliant.

      GIF

      Also, that last one makes me want to host a True Blood watch party this weekend.

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        Lisbeth Salamanderthisisamazonman
        9/05/14 2:32pm

        Am I invited?

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