Saturday, May 21, 2016

Ways Around Censorship


So the Macma "Man Boobs" Self-Examination Demo's main goal was to model how to check for breast cancer using the boobs of a bigger male. The reason for this was because women's boobs are always censored and it is difficult for health-concerned women to understand the procedures if the details they need to know are blurred out or covered up by icons.

The video shows a woman with her face cropped off. She takes off her only article of clothing and her boobs are censored with icons. At this point, the narrator is explaining why there is this woman and why she is shirtless and braless. As the narrator continues to explain how they are planning on using the bigger male's boobs to demonstrate how to check for breast cancer, the larger male walks out in front of the half naked woman, with his head also cropped off. The woman doesn't leave, but her arms come out under his underarms and begin doing what the narrator says you should do to check for breast cancer.

I think this video deserves a lot of credit because they really wanted other women to know these details that were previously blurred out and because it was just made well.

It wasn't particularly made to be funny or have intentional jokes, but it had a kind voice and was recorded so professionally that there were no doubts on their positive intentions. (There was nothing fishy, I guess.)

I was kind of freaked out at first because I wasn't sure why there were so many half naked people on my screen. But after watching the full video and the description, I began to really like the whole concept. It's a clever way around the censorship, and it was done under positive intentions, which made it even better.

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