Breastfeeding is Obscene!
I had another post all prepared for today but a more important topic came up. I read about this over at IzzyMom first. I will include the links that she did as well. The fact that some people with big mouths or big influence think that breastfeeding is obscene is obscene in itself. They think that breastfeeding mothers should not be doing this in public. I'm sorry, are they supposed to stay locked in a cage at home till they wean their child? They are mothers for crying out loud!!! We already have a kazillion things to do, all at the same time I might add, now we have to deal with morons like this?
*Clears throat* "Excuse me, would all morons please line up to apply for the job of "Mom" to see exactly what it is like. Oh yeah, we're gonna stick a kid to your boob ever 2-4 hours for 20 minutes. You still need to finish everything on your to-do list while doing this. Good Luck."
Apparently Facebook(read more here) and Myspace are jumping on the bandwagon calling pictures of mothers breastfeeding obscene! WTF? I have seen more obscene profile pics of people on these sites! They are pulling pictures of mothers breastfeeding off peoples profiles. And in some cases shutting down their account without notice and refusing to reinstate it. Saying that the pictures went against their "terms".
The fact that they have deemed breastfeeding, something that is healthy for both mother and baby "obscene" is just ridiculous. But to top it off, they allow pro-anorexia groups, and don't deem them "obscene". Oh yeah sure, nurturing a baby in public, totally heinous. Girls and women starving themselves and puking their guts out? Let's slap that all over the place. According to David Wescott there are currently 350 pro-anorexia groups on Facebook. Why is it that Facebook wants to support unhealthy lifestyles yet ban the healthy ones?
Mojo of a Mama has a great post on this topic. It is a must read, including the comments. These are some ladies that have their heads on straight. The fact is, that American society has sexualized womens breasts so much that people (other than mothers) cannot see them as anything other than sexual. When in fact they were meant for breastfeeding!
Pundit Mom really says it! "The message that's being sent is clear and it's not a good one -- breasts in their natural state must not be seen in public, but breasts for entertainment, especially "enhanced" ones -- AWESOME!".
We want our daughters to grow up with good self esteem and for our sons to respect women but how can they when all around them are messages such as this? That women in their natural form are not to be respected? They need to be tweaked and silicone to be worth anything? If society has it's way we are all going to end up on some WT talk show crying our eyes out about why our pre-teen daughters are such disrespectful hoochies. Eugh.
I'm gonna head on over to Facebook and post all these links on my page. I may even dig up some pictures just to irk them off. It may not be very progressive, but it will make me feel better!
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Thank you Izzy for bringing this topic to light for many of us!!!
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