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Facebook Still Battling Breastfeeders

phpVrxrA6PM.jpg Looks like Facebook is still fighting against the breastfeeding masses, who maintain that those posting images of the act should not be banned. One woman, April, has now written an open letter to the company, and points out that there are plenty of boobs on the site that they're not threatening to ban—you know, the non-lactating ones attached to the likes of Megan Fox. Her public scrutiny comes after a recent threat from the company; she explains, "I finally tandem nursed my babies successfully for the first time. Facebook told me this picture was offensive. And warned me that they will delete my account if I continue to break the rules." Surely this can all be solved over a glass of Riesling and some breastmilk cheese.

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  • Hollyhock

    not sure why this woman wants this photo to be viewed. just feed your kids and stop showing off.

  • MisterPlow

    Wow, I had no idea new yorkers were such uptight wieners. 'Wah wah I saw a lady feeding a baby!!' You people are nuts.

  • Actually, my "weiner" gets very "uptight" when I see women's bare breasts.

  • shovel lover

    breast feeding: wonderful!

    breast feeding in public: by all means!

    breast feeding pics on facebook: who cares??!?

  • Roni

    shocking as it is to people in this country, breasts were made to feed/nourish our babies. it is species specific milk. all mammals nurse their young with their own milk....except us humans. we give our babies cows milk, formula is based on cows milk. all those who have commented negatively about nursing in public or having photos of women nursing babies are just plain ignorant.

    BREAST IS BEST!!!

    roni

    www.nursingbabies.com

  • Spook

    Thank you for the right wing creationist message grand-Mah. I Guess you also belive that sex was made for creating humans. I think its alot more complicated than that now.

    No one is telling this women not to feed her babies, but to make a point of doing so publically is pointlessly fetishizing her children and her body. What's the point?

    Breats are also a sexual symbol. Should people be able to post pictures of them having sex because its "just an act of creation?

    roni

    www.nursingbabies.com

  • Roni

    *to make a point of doing so publically is pointlessly fetishizing her children and her body. What's the point?

    Breats*

    spook. i would imagine you eat in public. so why should she have to feed her baby privately. breastfeeding is an normal, natural thing, why are people so opposed to seeing it? if you don't want to see it, don't look....i happen to think it is a beautiful thing, i love to see women nursing in public.there is absolutely nothing wrong with this....

    oh...and breasts are spelled breasts, not brests...

  • Spook

    Well sex is a natural and normal thing as well. And while I do not object to a woman breast feeding in public- as obnoxious as it may be- I think facebook should be concerned with the issue of children coming across these image with out parental supervision.

    But let me put my cards on the table because this whole argument is nothing but a specious red herring.

    Its clear that certain women are politicizing a common sense issue NOT because breast feeding is under attack by any stretch, but because of their own insecurities that American "motherhood" is under attack.

    And they are right.

    More and more progressive women are refusing to be trapped by outdated male patriarchy propaganda about "biological clocks" and women not being women unless they have kids. And women like the above resent it but are too stupid to articulate it. So it becomes all about people not wanting to watch them suckle their pink little piggies.

  • Roni

    * think facebook should be concerned with the issue of children coming across these image with out parental supervision.*

    that is an excellent point.....children should be exposed to seeing women nursing their babies....in the usa, dolls come with bottles, children grow up to think that is the norm. if they could see more women nursing, more photos of women nursing, it would again become the norm. children in other countries see women nursing all the time. maybe if more women nursed, the infant mortality rates in this country would be better...the usa is not even in the top 20 countries with low infant mortality rates.

    breast milk for babies, cows milk for calves.

    facebook is world wide....why they are so ignorant about nursing moms is just wrong.

    if others don't want to see photos....don't look.



  • Spook

    So should a man trying to create a child with his wife be allowed to post a picture of him doing giving it to her doggie style on face book?

  • ...only if his wife is really really hot

  • robingee

    Men have sexualized breasts to the point where women are meant to feel ashamed for using breasts for their INTENDED USE. They loooove boobies unless they are not being used to satisfy male enjoyment. Then, ewwwwwwww! Guh-ROSS.

  • Guest

    I don't give a rat's butt about her boobs but it does bother me that she is contributing to the problem of over population.

  • BrokelynFaye

    This chick just wants to show off her tatas because she didn't have any before she got pregnant. Here's a blog post she wrote during her pregnancy:

    "Yup. Boobies. Breasts. Sweater meat. I got it.

    Before you're tempted to feel offended, I feel the need to offer up the fact that I've lived quite happily for 27 years with my rather boyish figure. I gave up on push-up bras some time around the age of 17. Once that snow-ball got rolling it didn't stop: bras were out the window altogether by the time I finished college.

    ... as I've not really minded my rather plankish form, I have to say that my new beautiful ta-tas are not to be minded either. Here's why:

    1. They jiggle, for goodness sake, and that's just fun.

    2. From the side, I look like the letter B, but with legs and a head. And who doesn't like the letter B?

    3. I have a cute little freckle that looks quite fetching when it's sitting atop my massive cleavage.

    ... So if there's ever been something to feel joyful about, I think I'm there. Two babies in my belly and I've finally reached a full B cup... feels like heaven."

    She's obnoxious.

  • Spook

    Jezzzz, this women sure went through a lot to show the world just how both stupid and vain she is via blogging. Now after reading that, the ta tas make her look even more ridiculous. I bet the husband is just as stupid not to mention the two pups draining more stupidity from those milky jugs of stupidity

  • jaycjay

    The set of blog posts labeled "boobies" goes back to 2008. This is not a new obsession.

    http://eclecticeffervescence.blogspot.com/search/label/boobies

  • Hey, she's just happy she's got some titties now!

    No wonder she wants to show off "the girls" on facebook (the babies are just an excuse!)

  • jaycjay
  • BrokelynFaye

    Amiright? She's just psyched to have a rack after all these years.

  • matty

    I'm suddenly hungry for cheese for some reason.

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