Blac Chyna is bringing the revenge porn conversation to a national audience on GMA
While you probably already know everything there is to know about what happened between Rob Kardsahian and Blac Chyna last week, it’s safe to say that the general mom, dad and grandparent population is pretty clueless.
Or at least they were before Blac Chyna and her lawyer Lisa Bloom went on Good Morning America today to talk about revenge porn and why Blac Chyna is asking for what GMA correspondent Linsey Davis called a domestic violence restraining order against her ex.
This is a huge deal — revenge porn can and does affected the general population, not just celebrities. This conversation happening on GMA will make the world much more aware of the issue and how to deal with it.
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Sitting down for an exclusive interview with Good Morning America, Blac Chyna showed she wasn’t afraid or embarrassed to make a public statement about Rob’s decision to harass her and post her nudes alongside degrading, slut-shaming comments on social media.
“I was devastated, of course,” Chyna said, describing her mindset after she learned what Rob had done. “I’m like, how could somebody, like, post these pictures of me? And I’m like, ‘Wow, okay.’ This is a person that I trusted. I confided. I felt comfortable, you know, with even sending these pictures and even talking to him about certain things, you know. I just felt… betrayed.”
Asking a question likely on the lips of every conservative person over the age of 40, Linsey Davis asked Blac Chyna, “Where do you draw the line? Because you do expose a lot of your life,” which includes “some semi-nude photos”
Confidently Chyna replied, “I draw the line. I am Angela White. I am Blac Chyna. I can do whatever I want. It’s my body.”
And then her lawyer chimed in to point out that, “any explicit photos that she may have chosen to post in the past, that’s her choice. That’s like saying a woman can’t be raped if she previously chose to have sex with someone. It’s her body, it’s her choice, each and every time.”
Which is a powerful point to make.
Just like women don’t deserve to get raped because they’re wearing loincloths and crop tops, women don’t deserve to get their nudes leaked just because they post thirst traps all the time. Or even because they send those nudes in the first place.
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Asked why she chose to seek legal action instead of just dealing with the dispute privately between themselves, Blac Chyna explained that Rob gave her no choice.
“The moral of the story is, he doesn’t respect me,” Blac Chyna said. “So if you can’t respect me you have to respect the law.”
Blac Chyna ended by addressing all the women out there who might be going through something similar with a psycho ex saying, “To all the women out there, you know, you’re not the only one that’s probably going through something. So I feel as though if one person speaks up, maybe it, hopefully, it will be a domino effect.”
And that’s exactly what needs to happen in order to start stripping away the stigma of being a target of revenge porn. High-profile women need to start talking about it and how it’s not okay on the biggest platforms they can find.
Because it is embarrassing to have your nude photos leaked or to find yourself getting harassed on social media by an ex who won’t stop harassing you. And a lot of women don’t seek legal action in these situations because they feel like it’s pointless or they don’t want to draw any more attention to themselves.
Even if Blac Chyna doesn’t get granted a restraining order against her ex, at least she succeeded in putting the full force of her celebrity behind the issue.
It won’t solve the issue, but maybe it’ll help make more women feel comfortable seeking help when it happens to them.
