Michele’s Musings

It’s all over the news…

It started off as a small slight, it offended a small group of lactivists (that would be a lactation activist for anyone wondering) who were quite confused as to why anyone would be offended by the image of a mother and child breastfeeding.  Karen Speed, who I know as JQ from www.linkingparents.com showed us the email she got from Facebook after her temporary ban was made permanent.  We were agast.  Breastfeeding photos are “other obsene content” that would not be allowed?  Are they mad?  

Then a new Facebook group was started by Kelli Roman in San Diego CA Hey, Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene!(Official petition to Facebook) and as good lactivists we all jumped on the bandwagon and joined the group, us lactivists band together you know …. then earlier this week a newspaper in of all places, Sydney Australia picked up the story.  Now it is al over the news, CPO’s own dani arnold was interviewed by an Ontario newsstation (hey dani is it on You Tube yet???) the Facebook petition group has soared in numbers and the lactivists are heartened that many others think Facebook is crazy to consider bfing photos obsene, especially when so many other sexually explicit photos remain on the site. 

What’s FUNNY to me is…. the photos don’t get removed from Facebook unless someone complains about them.  These bfing photos were in private albums and on breastfeeding support group albums.  They were not thrown up in public places to get attention.  Someone with nothing better to do (maybe a vendetta???) went around reporting bfing photos from these groups and private albums to cause trouble and look where it’s gone?  Facebook looks rediculous and Karen is getting attention from all over the world for her BLISS Breastfeeding website/

WTG Lactivist’s!