This morning saw an extraordinary interview with Tony Burke, who likes to take photographs of women tucking into a sandwich on the Underground, and encourage others to do the same. He told the Today programme that he was in no way just a slightly creepy man with an odd fixation on M&S pasta salads and Big Macs. Instead, he was conducting an “observational study”, which was “artistic”.
Alongside him for the interview was Lucy Brisbane McKay, who is organising a protest which involves women chowing down on whatever they fancy on the Circle Line on Monday.
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Burke added that he was talking “posthumously”, because Facebook has now taken the Women Who Eat on Tubes page down. “I empathise with the feminist argument,” he said, “but I feel it’s not relevant in this case.”
Asked if he was treating women like a wildlife study, he replied, “We’re all wildlife, Lucy.” he added. Burke added that the site had “thrown up a number of interesting tributaries of discussion”, one of which was feminism, but more importantly, there was a question of privacy, “which affects everybody”.
In case you ever watched Nathan Barley and thought, “Come on, no one is really like that”. . . wonder no more.
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