YOU MIGHT REMEMBER the Miley Cyrus-backed #FreeTheNipple campaign, which is battling for women’s right to bare their nipples as they please, wherever, whenever, just as men can.
Model Chrissy Teigen recently brought the campaign back into the spotlight after a topless photo she posted to Instagram was quickly taken down.
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Teigen repeatedly posted the photo – and when Instagram repeatedly took it down, she came up with some creative ways to show everything but her nipples:
To fight the ban, women are now Photoshopping A-OK Male Nipples over their Big Bad Female Nipples, thus making their bare breasts ‘acceptable’ for social media.
The campaign has received an unexpected ally in Orange Is The New Black actor Matt McGorry, who last night posted a picture of his own bare chest with Miley Cyrus and Chrissy Teigen’s banned nipples Photoshopped over his own.
In the caption, he attempted to explain #FreeTheNipple to those still on the fence:
The banning of women’s nipples may sound normal or even inconsequential as you think, “Well, women’s nipples are more sexual than men’s nipples”. But that’s not scientific fact. It’s because of how our society so heavily sexualises women.
Part of the stand of #FreeTheNipple is about women’s right to claim what their breasts and nipples mean to THEM, and not have that be defined by how men and much of society decides what their boobies mean.
Instagram has shown no signs of backing down on the issue yet. But remember, they’re protecting the world from dangerously sexy female nipples. Thank god for that.
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