I was doing my thing on the Internet this morning when I came across a bunch of sites peddling a photo of an allegedly-topless Taylor Swift. Naturally, out of morbid curiosity, I clicked on the NSFW link and was brought to a photo of … well, not Taylor Swift. It was unquestionably not Taylor Swift. I’m not even a Taylor Swift fan who spends hours staring at the girl’s concert photos, and even I could tell you that the girl in the photo was not Taylor Swift. But hey, that’s Hollywood, nude photo leaks are the new fad, and now Taylor Swift’s lawyers are suiting up for defamation or something technical that I wouldn’t understand in a court of law (or anywhere else) anyway.
Though I’d read various pieces from a variety of websites about the news, in no article I found, however, did it mention that the girl in the photo (you can Google it; I don’t really feel all that comfortable peddling the picture, and you won’t see it over on Evil Beet either) could possibly be underage. Read? My thoughts are that the girl in the photo could easily be a very young girl in high school – fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen years old. Could I be wrong? Sure. But the girl looks pretty adolescent to me. But moreover, why circulate a photo that could possibly be of a young girl who’s not even *legal* yet? Why is no one paying attention to the fact that the photo in question is undoubtedly not Taylor Swift, but is of a young girl who may or may not be making some pretty unwise, unguided decisions as a teenager?
Why? Because the world as a whole doesn’t care. The world has women like those on Jersey Shore and 16 & Pregnant and Teen Mom. The world has seen every boob available to see via “nude leaks” and isn’t ashamed of seeing every other boob possible, even if there’s a slight chance that it might be the boob of a young girl who may, or may not, turn out out like the aforementioned “women” on the aforementioned reality television shows. And you know what? That actually makes me pretty angry. Our society is content to sit aside and point and gawk at these maturing young men and women and watch them actively self-destruct and the worst part is, our society enjoys it.
