Teacher loses her job after her boyfriend(a fellow teacher) exposed a private, topless photo she sent him to her young students. He faces no repercussions but she loses her career. The importance of her winning her case for equality and civil rights for women should not be underestimated. The boyfriend should be on trail for exposing porn to minors and using revenge porn but when are men in the US held accountable for anything 🤷♀️
This also perpetuates the idea to children that women are inherently sexual objects. Once our breast’s are exposed they “no longer respect her[us]”. We are more than a pair of tits. Lauren Miranda is renowned in her community for being the best algebra teacher there is but suddenly, once they’ve seen her breasts - she no longer has the intellegence or worth as a woman to teach.
This is what they are teaching to the children of that school. That a man can be shirtless can still hold value but women can not. Women are sexual objects seen by the state and teaching that to young girls is detrimental to their self-worth and understanding of their bodies.
Even more wild is the fact that it’s actually legal(it’s fucked up there’s laws for breasts right?) for women to walk around topless in the state of NY where she teaches. It’s one of seven states in the US.
A case like this is also very important in the context of deepfakes: automatically computer generated images which superimpose an existing person’s face over a different body in a believable way. The technology was most famously used to create videos in which an actor was able to wear a famous person’s face and voice files generated from existing audio, to say and do things which the subject never did.
For regular people, the concern is that they can be weaponized, especially against women. When done manually, it takes a digital retoucher many hours to create a single believable fake still image. Using AI, a large number of fake still images and possibly even short videos can be automatically generated for any number of targeted individuals, in order to disrupt and distract. Most likely, these fakes will be used for blackmail purposes, or to remove that person from a position of authority. This teacher’s case shows that even if it is determined that the victim had nothing to do with the image in question being released, they still suffer a negative effect from the picture being exposed. This is a dangerous precedent, and once again women suffer disproportionately.
Men aren’t immune though, because even a fake image of a male politician engaging in heinous behavior like pedophilia or rape could still work as a disruptive element especially during a political campaign. (Unless that politician is right wing, in which case it could boost their popularity).