Moms Protest Facebook
January 3, 2009 by Eliza Ferree
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No one likes to be told what they can and cannot do, especially after they’ve already been allowed to do it for so long. So it shouldn’t be a big surprise that breastfeeding moms all over got upset with Facebook, a social site like Myspace, when they decided to begin banning those that had breastfeeding pictures on their sites.
Why did they ban these pics? Because they were obscene. You know feeding a child is just so bizarre and disgusting and pornographic. Right? I mean it wasn’t like they were hot moms wearing bikini’s and doing it, that would probably be allowed. But just regular moms, some you can’t even see the nipple but you know it since the baby is right at the breast. Maybe they just don’t like to see pics of moms with their babies. Who knows.
These women however were NOT going to be stopped, in fact they decided to do a nurse-in online at the end of December where there were 11,000 people that participated. I’m not sure how many of those moms were banned. However the spokesperson for Facebook did make a statement:
“Photos containing a fully exposed breast (as defined by showing the nipple or areola) do violate those terms and may be removed.”
But I’m guessing this doesn’t apply to ALL those that show breasts, just those with babies attached. Oh and to prove this isn’t true (the statement) click over on Obscene or Not and check out Kelli Roman’s breastfeeding pic. She was banned for it, you can’t even see the nipple and barely the breast. Course she wasn’t going to stay shamed forever, she created a Facebook Group called, “Hey Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene!” currently she has 124,142 members. Guess us moms like to stick together.
Any thoughts?
