Stop Feeding the Babies on Camera, You Dirty Womenz, You!

Every now and again I come across something that absolutely infuriates me. Incenses me to the point where I can’t even think straight. Society’s perverted distortion of sexuality is definitely in the top ten of that list.

While skimming through Facebook yesterday, I came across this article, shared for our viewing “pleasure”(or frustration, whichever fits): Eclectic Effervescence

April does a fabulous job of outlining the issue but I feel the need to stomp my feet in indignation, too. For the link-phobic, let me outline the issue. Facebook has been deleting pictures , communities and accounts of people who post pictures of breastfeeding mothers who are nursing their babies. The reason is because it’s against the terms of service to post pictures of “obscene or overtly sexual” material. Now, this isn’t news! This outrageous fact had been blasted all over Facebook back when I first joined, over a year ago. I mistakenly thought that since the fuss seemed to have died down, that it was dealt with. WRONG.

Oh the picture that is the cause of Facebook’s warnings this time?

This one:

That’s right. This picture, people, is either obscene or too sexually graphic for public viewing.

Now at the link above, you will read how the woman in the picture feels about this nonsense and see the pictures she found from various communities around Facebook that are DEFINITELY sexually explicit. She does a lovely job of pointing out Facebook’s apparent inability to grasp the definitions of their very own TOS!

But…I found even MORE on Facebook! Wanna see? GOOD!

Note: These are ALL profile pics for various Facebook communities titles along the lines of “Tits, Boobs, Big Titties, Large Breasts” etc.

Ok, that one’s not offensive enough to demonstrate my point, is it? I can do better!



Yes, you can actually see MORE of this woman’s breasts than April’s. I guess it’s ok because nobody is trying to LIVE off of them.

Nope. Nothing sexually explicit here, folks. She’s just being “artsy”.

LOOK! NIPPLES! Run! Run for your lives! Your virgin eyes will be tainted fore-wait. Wait. Oh PHEW! For a second there I thought she was going to breastfeed!

Ok, so this last one was NOT a community profile picture. It was just the only OTHER picture the community had in it’s list of photos. Obviously THIS is perfectly acceptable and doesn’t break the rules, though. See, not only are there no disgustingly hungry little babies in this picture, there also aren’t any dirty breasts in it. So it’s ALL GOOD.

What gets me isn’t that these people have these particular pictures posted on Facebook. I honestly don’t give a crap. Frankly, I feel that people should be able to post just about whatever they want online, I don’t have to look at it and I’m sick of the notion that someone else, other than myself, should be responsible for what I or my kids or anybody else sees. Furthermore, human sexuality does not gross me out, offend me or make me want to curl up and die. What DOES offend me is the apparent opinion of FAR TOO MANY PEOPLE that women’s bodies are ONLY FOR SEX and as such, posting anything that might hint otherwise is deemed offensive, obscene or sexually explicit (yes, please explain to me how feeding a baby makes you think about sex, you sick bastards).

It seems to me, based upon the pictures above and shown on April’s lovely blog, that Facebook doesn’t have a problem with sexuality, obscenity or women showing off their “femininity” to those who wish to see it. No, what they seem to have a problem with is women using their bodies for anything OTHER than sex! What really burns my butt is that they aren’t alone! Remember when Baby Talk (a popular magazine aimed at mothers) published a magazine with a close-up of a baby at the breast? Well I do! It positively shocked me how many MOTHERS were outraged by this! HELLO PEOPLE! If YOU are going to buy into the whole “our bodies are only for sex” ricockulousness, how do you EVER expect to be “equal” or respected!?

I’m going to now make some shocking revelations about the human body’s parts and their glorious versatility: The whole thing can be used for sex! Fingers, toes, lips, tongues (oooohhmmmffyyyeeesss), eyes, ears, necks, hands (oh wonderful hands!), vulvas, penises, arms, legs, the list goes on and on and is only limited by your imagination! Why do BREASTS get singled out? What did my breasts do to you!??! OH that’s right! I FED MY BABIES WITH THEM.

Oh horror! Oh how revolting! MILK COMES OUT OF THEM! How DARE they defy the rest of my sexual body by having a useful purpose outside of fantasy?

COME ON, people!

Facebook and everyone else that has their heads firmly rammed up their arses (another popular play-place…oh wait! THAT’S why they’re up there! HA!) please, PLEASE take a breather and THINK WITH YOUR BRAIN AND NOT YOUR CROTCHES.

Discriminating against our breastfeeding mothers is a crime against society, there isn’t any other way to look at it than that. You are discriminating against women FEEDING THEIR CHILDREN. Yes, it is actually that simple and you are all actually idiots.

I think that about covers it.