From time to time I get requests for interviews from female students in connection with their courses, and so long as they take up little time, I generally agree to them. At 03:12 today I received an email, with the strangest such request I’ve ever received. I assume it’s a spoof, and I’ll politely decline:
Dear Mr Buchanan,
My name is <name redacted> and I am a Masters Student at The Royal College of Art, London. I am currently working on a Visual Communications project researching how design can contribute towards social change. This email is to enquire about the potential for an interview with you.
I am working on a concept for a board game based on the history of the female nipple. The player’s end goal will be to ‘free the nipple’ but there will be a snakes and ladders style set-up – where the player will need to overcome certain obstacles (historical cases of breast censorship).
The game is intended to be fun, educational and hopefully to get people talking about the female nipple openly without a hyper – sexualised outlook. It will be instead be focused on a woman’s right to define her own body.
As you may have guessed, I am personally a feminist, but I am interested in collecting and considering a wide scope of views throughout my research. I would be eager to hear an anti-feminist view on a woman’s right to go topless.
Would you be available for an email interview in the upcoming week? Please note that this would be purely to support my academic research and not to be published in any form.
Please let me know if you have any questions about my project and if you are happy to go ahead, I can send you a list of questions.
Thank you and kind regards,
<name redacted>
Justice for Men & Boys 
This is actually quite a plausible enquiry, but it does place me in something of a race for publication.
I myself am a PhD student at the University of Chipping Sodbury and my doctoral thesis is based on a new quiz show for radio that I have titled ‘The Welsh Collie Nipple – Can It Open Doors for You?’ If I don’t publish before I shall likely find my work and my academic career lost in the also-ran pile. Could you help with a short interview?
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Go for it, seems plausible and what do you have to lose? Censorship of the female nipple amounts to nothing more than an evolutionary path of jealousy and control. Freeing the female nipple, just as men’s nipples are free, would put everyone on an even keel and reduce the phenomenon of mystery which has developed in a way that it now polarises men and women in terms of how their bodies are viewed by each other. When you go to a topless beach you might stare for a few minutes but then it suddenly becomes the norm, and no big deal. It’s an interesting subject.
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I meant to say that since the objectification of men has become apparent over recent years ( yes it has and women and feminists appear to love it and they refuse to acknowledge any potential harm to men and boys or recognise any of this as a double standard – it’s always different!), I’ve noticed that men in public spaces have begun to cover up far more. Are we on the verge of complete 180 degree change in behaviour? Like I say, very interesting.
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It’s real, I’m told. Let me know when she does her follow-up, Show Your Vagina.
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Oh why oh why don’t I get such letters! Could be because I’ve already ahem pointedly addressed this very issue? https://caprizchka.wordpress.com/2015/03/24/little-girls-create-truth-and-justice/
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I’ve devised a Game called Free the Penis and sought shapely and appealing young women to help me prove the concept yet, despite offers of money, none has agreed to help. Am I doing something wrong?
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Reblogged this on World4Justice : NOW! Lobby Forum..
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Deeply dodgy – avoid !
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