Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Questions about "tradition"

If Princess Diana started allowing people to take pictures of her children soon after they were born, how is that necessarily a tradition?

I have read a couple of articles about the latest broo-ha-ha; each of them either quotes reporters saying that this indulgence of the press is a tradition or says "it's a tradition."

If two people in a row do something, does that make it a tradition?

What if one person says something every day for years, say, "STOP FILMING ME IN THE BATHROOM!"  Is that a tradition?  Does the sheer number of times that I have said it make up for the fact that it's only me saying it against everyone who's doing it?

I was 8 in 1982, which is the year given by the media for when the "tradition" of standing on steps outside when you've just given birth, having people scream things at you and your baby and demand that you turn this way and that, smiling in the midst of residual pain and fatigue, essentially offering your work of 9 months and however many hours of labor up to billions of people as if it's theirs and not yours, began.

As has happened with all of my previously described reasons (in addition to it being DISGUSTING AND CRIMINAL) for why it's wrong for me to be targeted for voyeurism and involuntary pornography, everyone who knows that I'm telling the truth about hidden and illegal cameras that continue to violate me AND EVERYONE AROUND ME every day is ignoring me when I say "I'll be 45 this summer.  It's DISGUSTING AND CRIMINAL to do this to anyone, but don't you think I'm getting old and your sickening, misogynist excuse that I'm so beautiful that there's nothing wrong with visually raping me is less credible every year?"

So, is something that a couple of people did every once in a while in a 37-year time span a "tradition," while someone whom powerful people have decided deserves to be bullied to death isn't too old to be filmed in the shower when she's almost 45 years old?

Also, just because a famous person did something that the media liked doesn't give the media the right to demand that every other famous person do the same thing. 

What about things that the media doesn't like?  For example, if I'm not mistaken, it's not atypical for famous people who are sick and tired of the media to extend the middle finger of one or both hands to said media on days when it's all too much, or to otherwise express less-than-flattering opinions about having cameras shoved in their faces and other parts of their bodies.  That's a tradition, isn't it?