Interesting story ran today on the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) news site about naked pictures of a Canadian Judge that appeared online, that cites the learned opinion and judgment of the whole unfortunate event passed by the Dean of Law at a major Canadian University as follows: ³"If pictures of you naked end up on an internet site, it's quite difficult to say you have the credibility to be a judge," said Sébastien Grammond, dean of civil law at the University of Ottawa. Grammond said a judge ultimately represents the ideal of justice and therefore the judge's conduct and image reflect on the justice system as a whole. The judge is, in a sense, the embodiment of the justice system, something the Supreme Court has noted in a past judgment.² So Dean Grammond explicitly (a) decouples responsibility for the act of posting an image of a naked person (of a woman) on the net with the person (her husband) posting that image while simultaneously, (b) links culpability for the simple act of representation itself as it were with the person represented in that image... Truly bizarre (while very familiar) reasoning. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2010/08/31/judge-manitoba-douglas.ht ml Predictably, the person represented in those images, who did not post them online, ³requested to be temporarily relieved of her duties as a sitting justice of Manitoba's Court of Queen's Bench.² Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2010/09/01/man-judge-steps-aside.htm l#ixzz0yJoew33o Interesting times. So many cameras and no where to go that is outside the frame. Mary -- Dr. Mary K. Bryson, Professor and Director, Network of Centers and Institutes in Education (NCIE) & Center for Cross-Faculty Inquiry (CCFI), Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia Archive: http://ubc.academia.edu/MaryKBryson Current Research: http://www.queerhealth.ca CCFI: Innovation Works Here http://ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/