"I realized the absurdity in the over-sexualization of the female nipple," Shamsi told The Huffington Post. "I wanted to show Instagram just how silly their own policies were by showing them how easily male nipples could be interpreted as female - and with the greater aim of highlighting the fact that the only real difference [between men's and women's nipples] are the weighting we choose to give to female nipples according to labels we arbitrarily assign to them as a society."