An Idea Regarding Nipples
While talking to my mother tonight, I informed her about Tumblr’s hilarious new policy, including the bit about “female-presenting nipples.” In my rather passionate explanation, I said:
“What I wanna know is, if you have a picture of a nipple, close up, no context, no other external stimuli or clues, how the fuck are they gonna know if it’s a female nipple?”
And she said, “Well, you can’t,” and then presented me with a gem of an idea to fuck with the staff and their terribly-programmed filter bots.
The plan:
Everyone post a close-up/cropped picture of a nipple. Just a nipple. Any nipple. Could be your nipple. Could be a pornstar’s nipple. Could be your cat’s nipple, idc. Doesn’t matter as long as it’s a nipple.
And when the bots inevitably flag the picture as explicit, either have them review it and send them a scathing “Well why is it explicit? Because it ‘looks female’? How do you know it’s a female nipple? How do you know?”
Or just have a self-satisfied laugh because nipples are nipples and Tumblr is a raging dumpster fire that’s doomed to die anyway.
Here, I’ll even start, if for no other reason than to see how long it takes them to flag it.
(P.S. If somebody’s come up with/tried this already….you are also a genius, and I’m gonna try it anyway)
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