THE PROBLEM WITH PRINCE HARRY’S BUTT PHOTOS VS KATE MIDDLETON’S TOPLESS PHOTOS.
Sigh.
Predictably, a worldwide kerfuffle of epic proportions, has broken out over the publication, by the French magazine, Closer, of topless Photos of HRH Saint Kate of Middleton.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are suing and no-one has dared make any jokes about it at all.
Aw.
Poor Harry.
His Sibling Persecution Complex, must be on high alert, right now.
Or maybe he’s relieved…
Why is his escapade in Vegas an escapade, and hers, in the South of France, a violation?
I wonder if it is only me, who feels somewhat perplexed, and not a little bit irritated by, not only the D and Duchesses response (sue, and claim great personal damage,) but also that of the media who have been quick to leap to the “poor” Duchesse’s defence and claim similarities (again) to Princess Di?
In my ideal world, no-one would give a toss about what the DOC either looked like when she was clothed or unclothed, and no-one would be more interested in seeing her naked, than wearing a teeny bikini, but the world is not configured that way.
There are 161 000 000 hits on Google for the term, “Kate Middleton Topless,” just for e.g.
So, like sport, porn and kittens, like it or not, we are interested in Kate’s mammaries.
And she, if you don’t mind me saying, should be quite aware of that fact.
It was inevitable that at some point or other, those breasts were going to pop out, somewhere.
And this is skanky and an invasion of her privacy and shouldn’t happen … but.
Would it be too onerous to … just pop on a bikini top, if she didn’t want them seen?
And, now, seeing as they have been seen, can’t we all just make some jokes and move on?
I don’t know about you, but I think it’s much more harmful to all of us, her Royal Highness, included, to react to these blurry and boring pictures, as if paparazzi had photographed her at the gynecologist, or mourning the death of a family member or close friend.
Treating her like a vulnerable, damaged victim (her poor deceased Mother-in-law’s official royal role,) because we’ve squinted at her sporting body parts that 50% of the rest of have, anyway, is what’s really harmful.
It’s a double standard that is both patronizing, and infantilising to her.
Is it because she is a woman?
And are women too delicate to deal with a situation such as this with … oh … savoire faire, for e.g? She was photographed in France, after all.
Yes. It’s really unpleasant that she’s had her privacy invaded, but warriors come back fighting, not “distressed.”
And I wish she was acting like more of a warrior. That would be better, for us chicks.
Enough, with the Victorian calls to “stop treating her like Princess Di,” and “Causing her extreme distress?”
Enough of The Daily Mail, for e.g,: “The couple have launched legal action against Closer France, but managed to put their concerns to one side as they attended a tea party held in their honour in Kuala Lumpur,” and ” As sources close to the couple said she felt ‘violated’ by the pictures, there was mounting fear among royal aides that the Duchess faces being relentlessly stalked like the Princess of Wales. A strongly worded Palace statement compared the photographs to the ‘worst excesses of the Press and paparazzi during the life of Diana’.
Here’s an idea for us, first: Let’s treat her a little more like Prince Harry.
The world should, of course, treat the images with the contempt they, and the people who took them and who published them, deserve. (Doesn’t what we learned in first year economics still hold true? Don’t buy the bloody magazine, ignore the pictures. Those actions should lead to less pictures.)
But since they’re here, let’s (instead of tearing our hair out, smiting our brows and calling for the smelling salts,) make a couple of jokes and diminish the notion that a very privileged woman is somehow incapable of dealing with the consequences of her actions.
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