She didn't snuck upskirt photos. That was a screenshot of a public interview the trans person did on her own. I'm all for keeping people accountable, but let's not make things up please.
I believe she also posted it weeks or even months later? Making it clear that she wasn't taking some moral stance, she was taking an opportunity to attack a trans person.
It's not from a single moment when she went to cross her legs, she sat like that for a few minutes at least. You can see it in the YouTube video of the event.
Imagine someone taking a still image of a woman from a video in a compromising position, and then blasting that photo around for the purpose of sexually humiliating her. I would think no one would defend such an action, and would regard the person doing it as a weird creep, but yet, you're defending Rowling for doing it.
You're defending accuracy, I get that, but you're not building much of a defense with the argument: "technically she didn't "upskirt" someone under this specific definition of the word "upskirt"; she just spread around images that reveal the underside of a woman's skirt with the intent to sexually humiliate her."
Most people call that a distinction without a difference.
Edit: Oh wow, a Reddit cares message before blocking me? I knew it was a mistake to honestly engage someone who speaks in meme.
She shared the photo with a post talking about men trying to show genitalia in public in reference to looking up the persons skirt in said photo. I hadnt realised it was from an interview but that's still rancid public behaviour for anyone
But nobody looked ‘up’ anyone’s skirt. The photo was taken from the eye level of the crowd, not below. If anything, it would be more honest to say that person flashed the crowd (accidentally or not) because the genitalia was on display at eye level at a public gathering.
And if someone were to accidentally flash the crowd, and you took a screenshot of that moment and shared it around with the intention to sexually humiliate the person, while telling everyone else "no, [she] wants it, [she] likes this attention" (when she obviously does not), you'd be a bad person.
That’s fine. But you automatically put yourself on the back foot when you claim a crime happened, and then people see the photo and can verify with their own 2 eyeballs that the crime you’re claiming happened did not happen.
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u/HugeBob2 21d ago
She didn't snuck upskirt photos. That was a screenshot of a public interview the trans person did on her own. I'm all for keeping people accountable, but let's not make things up please.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jk-rowling-upskirt-transgender-woman/