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Trying to pretend it's not is feeding the culture of not listening to victims.
It's like saying that cat calling is harmless, forcing people to be reminded they are seen as a sex object is well known and documented as a tool of keeping the victim "in their place."
It's harassment, and when done at the scale famous folks experience for the crime of being well known and also attractive, basically amounts to a campaign of terror via sexual objectification.
Nevermind how tolerating it makes space for even more focused acts of terror like doxxing and making threats of sexual assault.
No, it's insulting to actual victims of actual events that happen in real life
Getting spammed with artificially generated nudes to "put you in your place" is real life, and jackasses like you are why victims hesitate to report this behavior that often escalates to credible threats of physical violence.
Being spammed and harassed and threatened is a totally different thing that, like you said, is real life.