upskirt
upskirt – aggettivo, sostantivo e verbo
upskirting – sostantivo non numerabile
upskirter – sostantivo
Some people go to great lengths to take upskirt photos, also known as creepshots.
She was amazed to discover that there is no specific law against upskirting in most of the UK – only in Scotland.
The man covertly upskirted hundreds of women in various locations.
The only way an upskirter could be convicted as it stands is for “outraging public decency” or “voyeurism,” under section 67 of the Sexual Offences Act.
Sconcertante ma vero, in certe regioni del Regno Unito fotografare o riprendere le parti intime di una donna senza il suo consenso piazzandole il cellulare sotto le gonne non è necessariamente perseguibile a termini di legge. Ma questa forma particolarmente odiosa di molestia sessuale potrebbe presto diventare reato grazie all’iniziativa di Gina Martin, una ragazza rimastane vittima durante un concerto la scorsa estate, quando uno sconosciuto le aveva scattato foto upskirt. Sentendosi dire dalla polizia, alla quale aveva denunciato l’accaduto, che non poteva fare granché, Gina ha lanciato una campagna per l’inclusione di questo tipo di molestia nel Sexual Offences Act, del 2003. L’iniziativa della ragazza ha raccolto il sostegno sia del pubblico sia della classe politica.
Origini del termine
L’aggettivo upskirt è formato dall’unione dell’avverbio up e del sostantivo skirt. Da questa funzione grammaticale originaria dei tardi anni 1990 è passato ad acquisire quelle di verbo e di sostantivo a cui si sono aggiunti il sostantivo non numerabile upskirting (l’azione molesta) e il sostantivo upskirter (il molestatore); illustra benissimo il processo di formazione delle parole in inglese.
Traduzione di Loredana Riu
Upskirt
upskirt – adjective, noun and verb
upskirting – noun U
upskirter – noun
Some people go to great lengths to take upskirt photos, also known as creepshots.
She was amazed to discover that there is no specific law against upskirting in most of the UK – only in Scotland.
The man covertly upskirted hundreds of women in various locations.
The only way an upskirter could be convicted as it stands is for “outraging public decency” or “voyeurism,” under section 67 of the Sexual Offences Act.
It is currently legal in most of the UK to put a phone up a woman’s skirt and take photos or film of her crotch, without her consent. This particularly nasty form of sexual harassment may soon become illegal, though, if a young woman who experienced it has her way. Gina Martin started her campaign after police told her there was nothing they could do when a man she didn’t know took upskirt photos of her at a concert last summer and shared them with his friends. Martin is trying to get the 2003 Sexual Offences Act amended to include this form of assault, and has garnered widespread support both from the public, via an online petition, and from MPs of different parties.
Origin
The adjective upskirt is formed by combining the adverb up with the noun skirt. It started life as an adjective in the late 1990s, then moved on to being used as a verb and a noun, an uncountable noun (upskirting) and a noun for referring to the person who does it (upskirter), making it a good illustration of the process of word formation in English.
