I have never been one for sitting on my hands

[anysia]

So, I email the PTB about my stance on their wussiness after thinking long and hard about it.

I am upset at your decision/ruling That a woman breast feeding her baby is akin to someone flashing their genitalia so cannot be used as a default icon, BUT an unnatural tattooed male nipple is ok. If I used a picture of a shirtless Rush Limbaugh with his double D man boobs as my default icon, THAT would be ok, but a screen cap of me nursing my newborn infant isn't. Do you see the disparity here?

I thought that LJ was a place where one could, within reason, be. A breast is not a penis, or a vagina, and your caving in to a few bottle fed, therefore resentful, complainers is shocking. What's sadder is that bloggers, a few of them permanent LJ owners, and most of them paid owners, are going elsewhere and will allow their blogs to get dusty. It saddens me that you took that path, instead of saying to the complainers "If you don't like it, don't look, you have that choice." No, instead you took the choice away from all of us.

I shopped around for my weblog over 3 yrs ago, and selected LiveJournal. I won't be deleting it (permanently), as it's a way for me to keep in touch with family and friends all over the world. But I am saddened at that you deemed a breast fed baby icon as 'obscene'. I just hope you open your eyes and realise what your decision says.

There are been accounts suspended because of the blogger complaining to LJ or not removing their babyfeeding icon as their default icon. There is a blog-protest happening this monday, against LJs' current ruling as to what is 'obscene'. I don't think deleting the journal will affect their stats, but if enough people let their journals lay idle for 24 hrs, that will.

EDIT: If you agree that LJ admin has gone overboard with this ruling, go here: If you agree this is just wrong go here: http://www.sixapart.com/about/contact and tell them so.

Comments

[chaotic-nipple.livejournal.com]

And yet if I _told_ them my icon depicted a flat-chested female nipple, it would magically become obscene. :-/

[japester.livejournal.com]

whoa .... where the hell did this come from?

speaking as someone who can walk around topless and not be declared obscene this stinks like a week old dead horse.

Even their 'clarification' emails don't seem to be worth the electrons they're written with.

[anysia.livejournal.com]

whoa .... where the hell did this come from?

Some anal retentive bottlefed dweebs complained to LJ Abuse about a 'disgusting' LJ Default user icon, a picture of a mother nursing her baby. THe kicker is it was used in a BREASTFEEDING post. So, the spineless LJ Admins decided on May 20th that a woman breastfeeding her baby is 'obscene'.

speaking as someone who can walk around topless and not be declared obscene this stinks like a week old dead horse.

No argument with me on that score. I have seen animated gifs of Super Mario boffing Princess toadstool from behind, and that's ok. But a picture of a mother doing what is a natural act with her baby is deemed 'obscene' and 'indecent'.

If you agree this is just wrong go here: http://www.sixapart.com/about/contact

and email them.

[purrdence.livejournal.com]

May I copy this to my LJ?

[anysia.livejournal.com]

Please do, and contact Six Apart if you agree this is just wrong go here: http://www.sixapart.com/about/contact and tell them so.