Don't Breastfeed and Facebook »
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Facebook is great for many things, but if you want to keep your account, you better not post pictures of yourself breastfeeding your children. Karen Speed found out the hard way.
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dan-and-jennifer11 months, 1 week ago
OMG! Those evil breasts have struck again! Lock the kids in the closet!
Breasts are the source of life for a newborn infant and the source of pleasure for many adults - perhaps remembering the safety and comfort of infancy.
Can we just lock up all of the extremists who are not even comfortable with their own bodies?!? I try to keep my comments positive, but this is just getting ridiculous.
Did you hear about the woman who got kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight because her skirt was too short?
Come on folks - find something important to worry about! If you don't want to see skin - look the other way...
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humemacdonald11 months, 1 week ago
I agree that is awful! What an inane article!! Facebook might have started out as a college site but there are tons of users who are in their latter 30's on the site. WE exchange pictures of our kids etc.. You would think that breastfeeding was a crime! Didn't women already go through this in the 70's for @@@@ sakes!
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DanmLiberals11 months, 1 week ago
I will let you breast feed if u let me suck on my wifes nipple in public. What's the difference?
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Shay11 months, 1 week ago
I totally agree. I have a two month old and I would
berate any person who told me or any other mother that they couldn't feed their child in public. And I also agree with little song. Why don't you go eat on the toilet. My baby and I will sit right here. And the people who complain about breastfeeding in public are the same ones that can't stand to hear a child cry. So which would you prefer: A nice quiet meal with a woman feeding her child, which you can ignore or a screaming child that you can't?
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marlenebomer11 months, 1 week ago
Some years ago, a mother was breastfeeding her child at the Toledo Museum of Art, and she was asked to go somewhere hidden away, and when she refused she was arrested for disorderly conduct or some such blanket charge.
She eventually reached the Ohio Supreme Court if memory serves and won her case, meaning that at least in Ohio, you can breastfeed in the open and not be cited or arrested.
And just recently, a Toledo mom was detained by security for breastfeeding her year-old son at a local mall.
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madmaxine11 months, 1 week ago
You are more than just a dog, you are a human being.
If an animal forces another animal to have sex it is nature, while it may make some humans cringe no one holds them responsible. If a human does it we call it rape, and someone goes to jail.
If a wild animal takes food it did not get on it's own it is nature, that's just the way it is , if a human does it, we call it theft, and we are held responsible. Part of being a human is learning principled self restraint. Grow up and rise above your animal instincts.
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marlenebomer11 months, 1 week ago
That's because the modern-day Puritans currently infesting the GOP want nothing more than to see TV reduced to what it was in the 1950's: white males in charge, submissive wives in heels and pearls waiting for him at home, blacks, asians, and other races nowhere to be seen unless they're the maid, gardener, or other servant; and of course, any mention of TLBGs banned!
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Mutainia11 months, 1 week ago
The only thing that stuck out in my mind about the Janet Jackson show, was her lying that it was a "wardrobe malfunction". Yeah, right. Too me, that hurt her, in my eyes, far worse than revealing that pretty, decorated, baby feeder of hers.
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Shay11 months, 1 week ago
I don't think that people are against facebook, I think they're against this woman ranting about breastfeeding in public. Though don't believe that the picture was obscene in any way. Like the commenter said above. Get over it.
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cleare11 months, 1 week ago
the article said the woman put up the photos as part of a support group for nursing mothers...entirely appropriate as far as i'm concerned.
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madmaxine11 months, 1 week ago
That depends on HOW you are looking at it. Allot of people can look at a Greek statue and appreciate it's form and nothing is wrong with that. That type of gazing at the human body fills the soul with the beauty of mankind, and appreciation of fine artwork, but if you take it home and drill a hole in it you are looking at to to fill only your animal instincts, and have proven that your animal instincts are more important than your soul.
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GrainOfSand11 months, 1 week ago
If yo mama didn't breastfeed you, you might not be here today.
A woman has breasts
Some men like them--a lot
Some women breastfeed, Some don't
If you see a woman Breastfeeding
Thank her for taking care of
her child and keeping
Humanity going
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JustOld11 months, 1 week ago
It's just this simple. Men walk around in public without shirts all of the time. If a woman does, it is considered indecent exposure by the courts. A woman who is breastfeeding should not be treated any differently under the law than one who is not. Now.....Stop and take a breath. I AM NOT AGAINST BREASTFEEDING OR WOMEN'S BREASTS IN GENERAL!! It's just that everyone is going at this the wrong way. The laws need to be changed to allow ANY person to be seen in public without a shirt. Think about it. This could solve several problems. First, breastfeeding would become a non-issue. Second, it would all but kill the proliferation of topless bars. If we saw bare-breasted women on a daily basis, the whole thing would become boring and the whole problem would go away. They've been doing it in Africa since the dawn of time.
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dan-and-jennifer11 months, 1 week ago
Very good point! Just because female breasts also serve the function of nurturing a baby, does not mean that they are pornographic!
This is hypocrisy at it's best and blatant discrimination against women!
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marlenebomer11 months, 1 week ago
I have a friend of mine going through this in the state appeals court here in Ohio.
She's protesting a local ordinance which orders *everyone* but boys under 12 to wear a shirt in city parks.
She and two others were cited for going top-free, while a number of men weren't -- and thus a clear case of selective enforcement.
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KYRed11 months, 1 week ago
Breastfeeding is an evil satanic sexual desire that must be squashed. In public? Arrrrrrrrrrrrrgh! No one should see a nasty baby sucking on a nasty female breast. hahahahahahahahaha
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1basque111 months, 1 week ago
OMGawd...what is this world coming to..They were put on our bodies to feed our babies...get over it!
This gives new mothers a negative view of having a wonderful experience with their babies..not to mention that it is good for their bodies recovery after childbirth .
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Mr-opinion11 months, 1 week ago
PC strikes again ..... how pathetic can you get
and what is this 'unessessary on a college site' - facebook itself is un-necessary and inapropriate in college or business.
and boobs, heck their hangin' of every balcony in the dorms and pop out in every bar in town - nobody'd go to facebook to see 'em
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ZippySpincycle11 months, 1 week ago
"PC"? Oh, for pete's sake, get your stereotypes straight! "Political correctness" is the alleged tendency of leftists to stifle any non-lefty opinion. If anything, a "politically correct" position would be someone who argued that anything other than breastfeeding is a fascist plot (undoubtedly by Nestle & other makers of formula) to undermine motherhood.
I'm reminded of a friend who decided to bottle-feed her baby; she said that she got a stern lecture from a complete stranger who told her not breastfeeding verged on child abuse--now *that's* PC! She called folks like that the "La Leche Liberation Army"...
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coolrayfruge11 months, 1 week ago
Here we go again the self rightious dictating their morals to us.
Putting more restrictions on our Freedoms.
For their freaking sake.
I'm sure if women were allowed go topless like men do.
After awhile it would be no big deal.
Just like in the European country's were people have more freedom.
The only reason why its a big deal here, is because a bunch of religious prudes make a big deal about it.
The real purpose for clothing was to protect our body's from the weather and other eliments.
Not to hide our bodys.
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scaleman12311 months, 1 week ago
Why do you have to post a picture breast feeding anyway? If you want to show a picture of your child take a good picture where you can see their happy faces having fun or something funny or cute. Breast feeding in public is done out of necessity. Showing pictures of breast feedind.... not sure why you would want to. If you want someone specific to see it email them in private.
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humemacdonald11 months, 1 week ago
The woman was heading a breastfeeding support group for new mothers. A picture can demonstrate a proper latch technique. Hard for men to understand but any nursing mother can tell you that if not done with the proper technique it can be painful, and lead to medical conditions like mastitis.(sp?)
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humemacdonald11 months, 1 week ago
It really seems that way rightfromwrong. This should not even be an issue.
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madmaxine11 months, 1 week ago
I would be willing to be this site has nothing against woman with their breast half hanging out, it is only when a baby is attached that they probably have a problem with it. Most liberals I know are against breast feeding because it "chains" the mom to the baby, which interferes with her all important career. Which makes breast feeding ugly to them.
Conservatives on the average have no problem with babies breast feeding. And we know that a babies head covers far more than most bathing suits now days.
That has been my experience anyhow.
Signed a conservative who breast fed.
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sp_stokes11 months, 1 week ago
Most states have a law that anywhere a woman has a right to be, she has a right to nurse. Shame on Virginia for requiring a doctor's note!
The picture that was supposedly removed is discreet. I'm impressed that she can nurse 2 kids at once! I think the picture is empowering and encouraging to moms everywhere. If she can nurse 2, then surely I can nurse my 1.
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madmaxine11 months, 1 week ago
Facebook is not my site and I don't visit it, and I don't want them to tell me what to do with my sites so I won't tell them what to do with theirs.
I do have some observations to make, I would be willing to bet there are allot of pictures of bikini wearing co-eds that would offend me as much as that picture offends others. But would they care that I am offended by barely clad kids who need to pull their pants up? Probably not.
They say it is mostly for college kids, but my middle school daughter knows kids with kids so if it can happen in middle school it darn sure can happen in college.
Nursing your children is one of the most loving things in the world you can do. Study after study has proven that breast fed children are more disease resistant, have higher I.Q.'s
have better digestive tract, less food allergies, and better relationships with their mothers. In this day and age where the food police are always breathing down our necks we should be proud of mothers who nurse.
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queenb72711 months, 1 week ago
This is part of the problem. You are offended by "bikini wearing co-eds". Because I guess the human body is dirty or something. But then you can't figure out why people don't make an exception for breasts when a baby is attached. Maybe it's the fact that people refuse to wrap their heads around double standards and hypocrisy. I bet when people become more accepting of the human body period, people won't care so much about breast feeding. But don't ask them to appreciate "one of the most loving things you can do" while they know you're offended by a bikini.
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queenb72711 months, 1 week ago
1) This is why Facebook should have stayed college only. There has been too much drama about stupid crap since more people have been let in.
2) I don't like the hypocrisy. The same people upset over breast feeding are usually the same ones wanting other women to cover their breasts to "protect the children". And then they wonder why people sexualize breasts and don't want to see them.
3) No one will die because there can be no breastfeeding pics on Facebook like I won't die because I can't post topless pics on facebook. And if your argument to that is breast feeding is more "natural and wholesome" than just breasts without a baby attached, then you have your answer as to why people think the way they do about breasts.
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ZippySpincycle11 months, 1 week ago
Back in 2003, a bill was introduced in the Idaho state legislature that would have protected women's right to nurse in public--there had been some instances of nursing mothers being told to leave restaurants. State Rep. Peter Nielsen apparently worried that passing the bill could lead to a frenzy of public lactation, said "It's going to be, whip it out and do it anywhere." Rep. Charles Eberle added this brilliant defense of his own right to be spared the horror of nursing infants: "You talk about the right of the woman--if I'm in a restaurant, having a nice meal, do I have any right (not)--to get the woman next door to me taking off her blouse and starting to breast-feed?"
I just wanted to mention this to emphasize that my state's backwards political culture isn't just limited to Larry Craig!
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humemacdonald11 months, 1 week ago
Most women also carry receiving blankets to drape over themselves if they are feeling like they are being gawked at.
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goblai6711 months, 1 week ago
Nothing is wrong with breastfeed
it's natural too.
When are women going to fight for their right as a woman, than fight for the right to be like men?
Please don't cruch them because of the perv...
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goblai6711 months, 1 week ago
Thanks! NATASHAS, I can't agree with you more.
I have been in Africa, there, it'is a normal thing for a mother to do and I agree with that because I can make a diffrerence between butter and soap. Both of them melt different ways and one is food the other is not.
We have to be able to make the difference.
Everything is not sex.
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