Lenny Kravitz's Double Standard?

Lenny Kravitz's 'wardrobe malfunction' was pretty much headline news this past week and in all the coverage I noticed something, an obvious double standard. 

When covering the incident female news anchors (the ones that I saw covering the story) reported it as a positive story. Some of which were genuinely excited about the 'wardrobe malfunction', going as far as to allude to how easy it is to find the unedited pictures online, bragging that they not only already saw the photos but enjoyed what they saw.

So what would happen if the roles were reversed? 

What if a female celebrity had a 'wardrobe malfunction' that was caught on video and there were pictures posted about it and a male anchor reported it as positive news encouraging viewers to go find the pictures online?

That actually happened a while back when a variety of female celebrity selfies were leaked out on the internet. Did you see any of the male or female anchors reporting on the story suggesting people check them out online or allude to how good the pictures were? This story was reported in a completely different fashion. Private nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence, Victoria Justice, Kate Upton and more getting leaked out onto the internet wasn't just referred to as a scandal, but was even called a sex crime and many even went as far as to say if you searched out and looked at these leaked pictures you too were committing a sex crime against these celebrities. 

I'm not disagreeing with that. Those actress had every right to be upset about those pictures being leaked and I think the media and others condemning the leaking of the photos was commendable...although one could argue that simply by reporting it they caused just as much damage as the people who leaked the photos...but that's a discussion for another blog. 

So why wasn't the same approached used when the photos of Lenny Kravitz 'wardrobe malfunction' started getting shared on the internet? 

Some might argue "He's a guy so it's different"...even going as far as to say "He was proud of the pictures". Do we assume that because he's a guy he is okay with his man parts being on display on the internet? 

Turns out Lenny wasn't happy about it. He's threatening to take legal action. (CLICK HERE for more details on that)

When the Jennifer Lawrence and company's photos were leaked we were told we were committing a sex crime against these women if we searched out and looked at the leaked photos. Should that same standard not be upheld for Lenny Kravitz? And if yes, now that Lenny Kravitz is talking about legal action, claiming a 'breach of human rights' will the reporters and anchors who commented positively about the ordeal and encouraged people to seek out the photos online be disciplined? Will they apologize for contributing to this breach of human rights? 

As a side note, you may have noticed that I did not post any specific name of the offending individuals or links to clips of them making these comments. Why? Because I felt that if I posted their names or pointed you to or shared links to where you can see them make these comments it would be hypocritical and I'd be no different than them.