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I don’t get Facebook’s morality
October 2nd, 2010 | 
Author: Facebook is full of questionable images, most recently of the Pitt Meadows rave rape (at least until authorities got on FB’s case) but it was quick to delete a page featuring women breastfeeding. I’m not sure what it is about women’s breasts that so scares people. Wasn’t the modern bra invented in the 40′s to mask the shape of breasts so that they became non-organic, non-sexual cookie cutter lumps? I’ve often wondered that the popularity of Playboy in the 50′s was a reaction to the shame of breasts in American culture. That shame hasn’t gone away – not even with something as innocent and wholesome as breastfeeding.
A Regina-trained artist says her Facebook page has been deleted by the company over images of women breastfeeding children taken from her works of art.
Kate Hansen — a visual artist in Courtenay, B.C. — says the problem began in April when the social networking site repeatedly removed breastfeeding art pictures from her page and sent her notes saying the images were not allowed.
“You uploaded a photo that violates our terms of use, and this photo has been removed,” one message from Facebook sent to Hansen, said. “Facebook does not allow photos that attack an individual or group, or that contain nudity, drug use, violence, or other violations of the terms of use.”
Hansen says the pictures she posted included images of her artwork of women breastfeeding.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2010/10/01/sk-breast-feeding-facebook.html#ixzz11GC8v1o6
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Tags: breastfeeding, breasts, Facebook, Pitt Meadows
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Considering that one of my sisters is a new mom, and breastfeeding her son, things like this just make me shake my head.
My mom remembers fondly how an old doctor of hers from up north once scolded another woman who didn’t want to nurse: “Those things are for feeding babies, not for your husband to play with!” Funny how the latter function isn’t considered obscene, but the former is. Is it offensive to remind the public what the real function of boobies is?
And considering that Facebook is owned and operated by a geeky dude who hates privacy, maybe its dubious morality isn’t so surprising. Sexualized women are fair game; mothers not relying on formula are bad for the bottom line.
It’s sad to me. The artist’s photos reduce all our gratuitous complications and unnecessary machinations into simple images of beauty and innocence. Nothing sexual, nothing deviant. Just the basic we, mother and child, life and beginnings.
Hi Jymn, great post. I was glad to see this story resolved somewhat, her artwork is beautifully crafted and evocative emotionally. And Bina has a good point about facebook, created by college geeks looking to meet girls. Imagine their surprise when their mothers showed up with all that embarrassing maternal love. Just goes to show how difficult it is to contain technology to it’s originally intended purpose. A butterfly flaps its wings…