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Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026

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Do you honestly not see why using pictures of real people to create sexual images might be offensive, even if the woman in question was sexually active? Would you not care if someone used a photo of you to create something like that and distributed it? You can call it a figleaf, but unhappily there are real guys out there who would indeed use a photo of the neighbour's four year old to create images of that child naked and sucking cock, and pass such images around.

Perhaps you don't object because if you got an AI-generated image of some hot chick you know, or a famous woman, or that bitch who refused to go out with you when you were seventeen, and she is used for porn material you can jerk off to, you'd be quite happy to use it that way. Perhaps you wouldn't care if such images were created and disseminated of you, because what harm is done? You never really got fucked by a stallion in real life, who cares if the kinksters are using your beach photo to show you taking horse cock? Maybe you think the guy who persuaded a 12 year old into sending him nudes, then tried to blackmail her with those and she eventually committed suicide, did nothing wrong (some people did comment along those lines before). After all, she freely gave him those images, so it served her right if he showed the world what a horny little bitch she really was, yes?

One of the victims, 12-year-old Cimarron Thomas, from West Virginia in the US, killed herself in May 2018 after McCartney threatened to share intimate images with her father.

After retrieving electronic devices from McCartney’s home, investigators discovered three years later that the girl died by suicide three minutes after the blackmail conversation.

The court heard that Cimarron had become deeply distressed and told McCartney she would go to the police and take her own life. But he said he did not care and gave her a countdown for when he would share the pictures.

Her body was found by her nine-year-old sister, and 18 months later her father, Ben Thomas, a US army veteran, also died by suicide, never knowing what had led his daughter to take her own life.

Some people do care, though. Personally, I think any woman who provides nudes or the like for a boyfriend is extremely stupid, but the betrayal there is that these were supposed to be intimate images for one specific person in the context of a relationship, not to be shared around or used to do reputational harm. That is what feels the most hurtful.

I'm cynical. Of course I think "don't trust men, they only think with their dicks and are vicious when not getting what they consider their right to get laid" but some women don't feel that way - until they get slapped in the face with it.

Do you honestly not see why using pictures of real people to create sexual images might be offensive, even if the woman in question was sexually active? Would you not care if someone used a photo of you to create something like that and distributed it?

I absolutely think it is offensive. I don't think society should protect women from being so offended because society refuses to protect men from it. Nobody gave a rat's ass when girls were distributing pictures of 5-year-old me naked in high school, using them to openly sexually harass me. They wouldn't even confiscate the pictures. Women demand gender equality, which means they can either grow a fucking thick skin and ignore it like we expect men to or kill themselves in shame like men who can't do.

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