Online protest grows of Facebook ban on breast-feeding photos

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://www.mercurynews.com/localnewsheadlines/ci_11321458

It's hard to say whether either demonstration will move Facebook executives — who appeared to not be at work Saturday — to lift the site's prohibition of breasts displayed on members' profiles and albums. Facebook says the areola, the dark skin around the nipple, violates a policy on "obscene, pornographic or sexually explicit" material.

On their Facebook group site, which also serves as an open petition to the company, nursing advocates by Saturday evening had posted more than 10,000 wall comments, two dozen videos and nearly 3,000 photos of breast-feeding, while starting more than 1,500 discussion threads. Facebook, it seemed, was not removing them.

[geckosfeet]

1. No!

Not more nipples.

How can the world survive this onslaught of exposed nipples?

We are doomed.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

2. Yeah cause when I see a baby breastfeeding, I think "Man, I want to hit that!"

Seriously, how can anyone find it obscene or pornographic?

[Poll_Blind]

4. Really, really uptight sexually confused, repressed individuals which arguably make up the MAJORITY

...of our culture. That is so depressing but I believe tenably arguable.

PB

[Poll_Blind]

3. [sarcasm] Women and their filthy, sinful body parts strike again!

Few things can be used to illustrate to an outside observer how dominated, exploited and grossly over-sexualized women still are in our culture like the concept that a man's breasts are in every way mundane and acceptable to reveal but that a women's breasts are, in fact, obscene, sinful things.

When all them poor titties ever wanted to do was make milk to feed hungry babies.

That is SO fucked up.

PB

[ogneopasno]

5. I just joined that group! Awesome.