This is the NUDES! John Humphrys has shock of his life on Today show as anti-Brexit economist strips off in Radio 4 studio—then challenges Jacob Rees-Mogg to have naked debate with her (dailymail.co.uk).
Dr Victoria Bateman, a fellow in economics at Gonville and Caius College, who regularly delivers lectures in the nude, surprised the veteran host when she disrobed and then challenged Jacob Rees-Mogg to a Brexit debate without any clothes on.
Humphrys, who said, startled, “oh, I see you’re naked”, told listeners that Dr Bateman had the words “Brexit Leaves Britain Naked” painted across her body.
With listeners claiming he clearly struggled—perhaps getting it out under the table—on air as Dr Bateman described Brexit as Britain’s “Emperor’s New Clothes” moment and the European Union as not the cause of Blighty’s problems before accusing her of undermining her argument by not wearing clothes as well as offending the sensibilities of the vast majority of the British public.
And having given Piers Morgan similar sanctimonious hump yesterday by uploading a video discussing women’s freedom and rights across the world while standing in the nude, being exactly what the Mancunian feminist economist and academic has become known for, performing her “Brexit: The Naked Truth” hour-long show naked on stage last month and asking the audience to sign her body as a petition, the feminist part of her point seemingly being that chaps would likely not care to hear anything she cares to say about the topic or feel need to say anything about her views without need to tell her actions are shameful while paradoxically living up to the body objectified role defined for fems, a point Humphrys addressed, asking: “Do you think in 2019 that women are judged on their bodies?”
She said: “I do. All you have to do is look at the online response to a two-minute section of my naked lecture that I posted online in the last couple of days and you will see people firing back with comments of the kind ‘this woman is trashy because she has got her body on show’ or ‘this woman is stupid’”.
Being the same ones that likely when socialising on Fidiotbook after are as quick as any to cajole that it would be okay to upload a few more cleavage revealing piccies or perhaps send them to them privately after points made on anything other than interest in flirtation have bounced off and over forehead, having only minutes before slut shamed the daily Kardashian-Jenner ass parade in comments sections.
But Humphrys suggested that Lil’ English societal mores are based on “degree of modesty” to which Dr Bateman countered:
“If we did respect that we’d still be living in days when women were covered from head-to-toe. Look at the suffragettes, they made some of the first moves to reveal their ankles and reveal their knees. So if we can dress who we want—and that includes in a state of undress that I am in today—why not?”
And asked whether “society viewed women’s bodies as shameful” and that:
“For thousands of years, men have controlled what women can do with their bodies. Women’s bodies have been seen purely as things for sex and babies.”
Thankfully old Etonian offshore investor (theguardian.com, Nov. 2017) and anachronistic head of the Anti-Brexit European Research Group Rees-Mogg did not respond from within the Grandfather clock in which he lives to her invite for an on air naked parlay to “get to the roots of this issue”, although the V&A are likely disappointed at missing opportunity to gather and put on display the knee-length shirt and underdrawers of the disrobing Honourable Member for the 18th century (Wikipedia) for their next underwear expo.
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