Facebook bans Breastfeeding Pictures (milk, infants, parent, children)

[Taboo2]

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Any thoughts on this?

[BornOKThe1stTime]

What's so wrong with boobs? Breastfeeding isn't dirty or offensive. It is what nature intended us to do. Our society is so stiff they can't handle a child eating. Women should be upset that people are still discriminating against the female body. It's sexist. We have to look at fat guys with boobs all summer. At least our boobs aren't covered with hair.(I hope)

We've all got nipples and some of us have to feed babies with them. That's nothing to be ashamed of. If people want to think of it in a sexual way they are just sick.

Thank you for posting this, I have a facebook account and had no idea this happened. that's not cool.

[Filet Mignon]

Originally Posted by Taboo2

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Any thoughts on this?

Gotta be honest. I think this is stupid.

Why would you put up pictures of yourself breastfeeding, anyway? And why do people think that a privately owned company is obligated to bend their policies just to placate a few exhibitionists?

Mostly though, I think that Facebook has every right to draw the line on the safe side of things. Most Facebookers are kids, after all.

[miasmommy]

Originally Posted by Filet Mignon

Gotta be honest. I think this is stupid.

Why would you put up pictures of yourself breastfeeding, anyway? And why do people think that a privately owned company is obligated to bend their policies just to placate a few exhibitionists?

Mostly though, I think that Facebook has every right to draw the line on the safe side of things. Most Facebookers are kids, after all.

I agree to a point. If you can see nipple, shouldn't be allowed for sure!!!!! If no nipple it's just skin, no problem. I'd fight for it if it were my pic!!!! Most are NOT kids! It's a place where people AFTER graduation find old classmates. MySpace has alot of younger people. If they are to ban "non -nipple" showing breastfeeding pictures, they should ban low cut tank top pictures.

[Filet Mignon]

Originally Posted by miasmommy

I agree to a point. If you can see nipple, shouldn't be allowed for sure!!!!! If no nipple it's just skin, no problem. I'd fight for it if it were my pic!!!! Most are NOT kids! It's a place where people AFTER graduation find old classmates. MySpace has alot of younger people. If they are to ban "non -nipple" showing breastfeeding pictures, they should ban low cut tank top pictures.

Doesn't Facebook have a pretty solid policy against nudity and/or pornography?

The way I see it, Facebook is a privately owned company. They can make up whatever rules they want - whether I think they're stupid or not. And, as a consumer, if I don't like it I can go elsewhere.


Really though, I have to wonder about "the rest of the story" here. If there are pictures of a woman breastfeeding, we won't be seeing her nipples. Methinks there's a lot more going on here.

[jtur88]

There is nothing wrong with boobs. However, FaceBook YouTube, and the like have set criteria that are designed to keep people from turning them into porn sites, which there are already plenty of, but apparently insatiable appetite for. There need to be sites with such controls in place, and this is one of them. They set the bar at the end-point, and the success of FaceBook suggests that they set it in the right place. If a subscriber feels like she absolutely has to post a picture of herself breast-feeding, there are other sites that would be happy to have her---she is not being denied public view.

[miasmommy]

I did look into the story. Her areola WAS showing. But it shouldn't matter since you can make your page private. Not just any random kid can go see it.

The problem is with some of you thinking breastfeeding is obscene or even comparable to pornography!

I've said before on other threads, I myself find it "strange" when people bottle feed. It's not natural and definitely not as good for the baby! And you know what, some people may be offended by the FAKE nipple on the bottle. If enough people out there who have no lives get together and fight against the showing of a "fake nipple," watch THAT be banned too!

There is a quote, I believe Jeff Tarvis an NYU professor stated:

"If anyone can complain about anything then EVERYTHING is forbidden."

By the way, I just joined the group "Hey Facebook, what have you got against breastfeeding?"

You ARE a small group of people. Just like all the other groups out there who somehow think your MINORITY rights mean more than the MAJORITY!

It's silly silly silly

[Woof Woof Woof!]

It's okay people. Calm down. It's only a boob, a baby, and a nursing mother.

[fnord]

I'm not even bothering to read the link because I'm disgusted by the "repulsion" of publicly nursing mothers in the US. Breastfeeding is the KEY to raising healthy infants - it wasn't until the 1950s and the advent of refrigerators that mothers began dumping cow's milk down their babies' throats. I think we are all now seeing the adverse health problems this is causing.

I live in a smaller city in Southern New Mexico. Last summer, a woman nursing her baby at a public pool was asked to leave because "children could see her boob." And? There was a huge uproar, and a nursing mother "sit-in" the following weekend.

The objectivity placed on women's breasts in the US is both ridiculous and detrimental.

[fnord]

There is no other mammalian species ON EARTH that steals mother's milk from another species to feed their own young. Take a minute to think about how absurd the public repulsion to breastfeeding is. Honestly, I can't even comprehend how this came about. Modesty is fine - using a light blanket to cover both mother and child, that's fine. And if not - so what? Every human on the planet has two nipples! Come on. This is something I seethe over, and I'm not even a mother.

In 1995, I went to visit a friend of mine who had just had a baby. She was nursing, thankfully. We decided to go out for the afternoon to a public event. At one point, she excused herself...and never came back. I went looking for her, and found her and her baby hiding out in the corner of a ladies bathroom so she could nurse. She said she was there because she was shy and didn't want to deal with any hassles because there were lots of children at the event.

STUPID.