FaceBook joins the rank of the prudes

[anysia]

Protesters target Facebook after photos of breastfeeding mothers removed

FACEBOOK is under fire after removing pictures of breastfeeding mothers from members' pages.

A Facebook group entitled "Hey, Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene!'' has already attracted nearly 85,000 members and a handful of activists held a rally outside its California headquarters over the weekend

My opinion and comment to some person saying women were rubbing their breast feeding into people's faces.

When are prudes going to stop equating breast feeding to someone flashing their genitals or pornography? Breast feeding is not now, or ever been, obscene. If you don't like seeing it, stop staring! There are famous works of art depicting Mary nursing Jesus, are those also going to be 'sanitised'? And why is it FaceBook, and other weblogs/social networks, have no problem with a bare chested man? Hypocritical much? And to Mel, breast feeding isn't being 'rubbed into people's faces'. The people checking out profiles and pictures can move on and not ogle. They choose to stare and be 'offended'.

Comments

[the-resa.livejournal.com]

The strange thing is I doubt they'd have a problem with the images of women showing off their breasts. Or at least, they'd have less of a problem with it.

I wonder if it has more to do with the patriarchal idea that breasts are meant to be sexualized/dirty. It seems to me that nothing is sexy in our society, unless it's degraded. Perhaps such images -- which show the breast as something maternal, nurturing and "good" instead -- tug at the under-strings of such ideas.

People always feel uncomfortable when they find themselves suddenly facing their personal perversions.

[anysia.livejournal.com]

People always feel uncomfortable when they find themselves suddenly facing their personal perversions.

And I would bet every one of the "On NOES! A breast!" were probably bottle babies.

[purrdence.livejournal.com]

My SIL feels she has to lock herself away in a separate room when she breastfeeds (she's turned out quite traditional when it comes to baby stuff).

While ultimately it's her choice to where she feeds, every time she goes off I feel like going "it's not going to squick us out! It's ok to feed out here!" I feel that way especially when she feels she has to seculde herself in her own house.

I suspect if she is really so prudish about who sees a breastfeeding woman and baby, she is going to have issues when I have babies... I mean, really, when it's your own home, one should have to hide away!

[anysia.livejournal.com]

I suspect if she is really so prudish about who sees a breastfeeding woman and baby, she is going to have issues when I have babies... I mean, really, when it's your own home, one should have to hide away!

My own mother insinuated there was something perverted about me because I nursed my baby past 6 weeks of age, and that I didn't go sit in nasty bathrooms to feed my baby if I was out in public (I had a 'nursing clothes' and of of the opinion if you're uneasy seeing a nursing baby, don't look) or hide in my bedroom when at home. Didn't help that my nasty stepfather would make rude comments while staring. There are many photographs of me flipping him off when feeding my son.

[purrdence.livejournal.com]

Your mother would have issues with the World Health Organisation who recommend breastfeeding for around 2 years...

[purrdence.livejournal.com]

er.. shouldn't have to hide away, peeps.