Facebook says no to leaky nipples

http://www.time.com/time/nation/arti...l?iid=tsmodule

The breast-feeding wars have long followed a familiar pattern. A woman gets thrown off a plane for nursing her toddler; she sues Delta. Barbara Walters says sitting next to a breast-feeding woman made her "uncomfortable"; ABC's headquarters get surrounded by 200 women staging a "nurse-in." Maggie Gyllenhaal is photographed nursing her daughter in public; tabloids rush to either praise her as a role model or tell her to throw a blanket over her shoulder.

The sides have been distinct: breast-feeding advocates insist that women should be able to nurse anytime, anyplace, while opponents use words like discretion and discomfort. But the latest battle apparently has nothing to do with the best way to nourish a baby or the boundaries between private and public. It's about the nipples, stupid.



Facebook has drawn a line in the sand by removing any photos it deems obscene, including those containing a fully exposed breast, which the site defines as "showing the nipple or areola." In other words, plunging necklines or string bikinis are fine — just no nips. The purging of bare-boob pics began last summer and has swept up, alongside any girls gone wild, a growing number of proud — and very ticked-off — breast feeders.

I'm one for allowing moms to nurse their babies in public because the kids gotta eat. But this backlash on Facebook is the most ridiculous story I've read today. If you want to put pics of yourselves and your boobs online, do so elsewhere.

These moms don't HAVE to be on Facebook. Everybody else has to comply with their ToS, why should they be given an exception?

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2517126532

(Be careful, pics posted to that group do contain some flashes of nip)