Breastfeeding vs. Facebook
Apparently this has been news for a month but I'm just now seeing it on CNN today. Facebook is removing pictures, or banning individuals, for posting breastfeeding pictures. They showed one comment on the news from a woman comparing breastfeeding pictures to sexual pictures. Lady, take the stick out of your backside so you're not so uptight! There is a huge difference between feeding your infant and sex. If you don't realize that, perhaps you should look into improving your sex life!
I have nursing pictures; I had them professionally done. I don't have them on my PRIVATE Facebook but I don't think there would be anything wrong with it if I did (private as in only friends and family have access). My pictures were tastefully done and didn't show anything more than a mother nursing her infant. I think if the pictures are in good taste and modest (we aren't exposing both breasts for the hell of it since baby can only use one...unless you're feeding twins), then what is the problem? Send some of the more uptight individuals to a beach outside Toronto and see their eyeballs pop out of their head with the topless beaches or the bathing suit "floss" that some people call bathing suits. A nursing mother is feeding her child!
If there are individuals who are posting inappropriate pictures, then they should be removed. However, breastfeeding is beautiful and appropriate, modest pictures shouldn't be removed or individuals banned for them.
The United States, for all their freedoms, sure has a lot of constipated people! I am an American so I can say that! :)
As an aside...but similar topic...I never understood why men could walk around shirtless but women couldn't here. Are we that uptight or are our hot-blooded males that unable to control their urges if a breast is flashed? So, which is it?
3 comments:
Ugh. Seriously? What do people NOT UNDERSTAND about how natural and beautiful breastfeeding is?
JEEZ. I mean - it may be a tad bit OFF if the kid was, like, 10 years old, but - c'mon now!!
So do you have 2 FB accounts? I only have the 1 - it's already addicting as it is and I am *cough* trying to ease off a bit - lol!
I saw an external link a few weeks ago that is hosting breastfeeding photos from women who had been banned. From that I'd say most (but not all) of these women were banned with good reason.
Most of the banned photos showed most or all of a breast. If a kid wasn't there in the picture it would be classified as nude art or pornography. There is a huge difference between those pictures and more tasteful photos.
I'm not saying photos showing the whole breast are offensive to me, but I do recognize that facebook isn't the appropriate venue for these pictures. Facebook doesn't allow nude breasts in the context of art or porn, so why should mothers get a special exception? Facebook allows anyone over the age of 13 to join and they choose to regulate nudity. If they instead restricted access to adults only it would be a different situation.
Facebook is a private company and it's allowed to make it's own rules about what content it will host. If someone can't live with their rule they're free to take that content elsewhere. I don't understand why these women choose to protest on facebook when so many other sites would allow these photos.
MD: I loved nursing. I wish I would've nursed all my kids. I have one facebook account. We need to hook up on FB:)
Delia: I haven't seen any explicit pictures so I don't know if I'd feel different if I saw them. Most women that I've seen breastfeeding, myself included, nurse (nursed, past tense, for me...I'm beyond nursing now) with barely anything showing. Most of the time, I can't tell if the baby is sleeping in mom's arms or nursing.
The one group on FB that I saw protesting had one profile picture with a baby nursing but nothing showing but a tad bit of skin. I've seen profile pics of bathing suits showing more than this mom was showing.
I'm not sure what the answer will be. If they will refuse to cave, or cave with restrictions (private folders, no profile pics). I don't know. It'll be interesting to see what happens.
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