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Protesters to Facebook: Breast-feeding does not equal obscenity

Graffight said:
some women have BIG areolas :mrgreen:
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I suppose...but they's pretty much have to be the size of a dinner plate for one to see it around a feeding kids head.:2sick1:
 
but on the other hand i understand that biologically speaking breasts are not only for feeding but for attracting the opposite sex.
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Perhaps you could prove that "breasts are for attracting the opposite sex" objectively more than any other body part. The reason they are looked at so sexually is because of the fact that they are treated as such in the first place, and so they become idols in a sense.

but on the other hand if i see a boobie out even if the woman is breastfeeding part of me still wants to see that boobie (just being honest) cause it's still a sexually attractive object to me
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And if you saw boobies every single day all the time you wouldn't be as shocked when you see them.
 
Khayembii Communique said:
Perhaps you could prove that "breasts are for attracting the opposite sex" objectively more than any other body part. The reason they are looked at so sexually is because of the fact that they are treated as such in the first place, and so they become idols in a sense.
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Honestly i can't remember where i heard that, it was on some documenteray somewhere...i'm sure if i dug hard enough i could find it, but seriously man...if you think about other animals like baboons who have big red butts to attract a mate or some birds who have colored breast areas you kinda see that the area seems to be used for attracting the opposite sex...


Khayembii Communique said:
And if you saw boobies every single day all the time you wouldn't be as shocked when you see them.
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like i said...if our culture were different i would agree totally
 
Honestly i can't remember where i heard that, it was on some documenteray somewhere...i'm sure if i dug hard enough i could find it, but seriously man...if you think about other animals like baboons who have big red butts to attract a mate or some birds who have colored breast areas you kinda see that the area seems to be used for attracting the opposite sex...
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I hardly have any breasts at all, and I've never had the slightest problem attracting men. In absolute droves, when I was younger.

Actually, I've seen studies that indicate that the greatest indicator of innate sexual attractiveness in females is not breast size, but waist/hip ratio.
Then again, my waist/hip ratio isn't great, either, so there's another theory out the window.
Perhaps it's that humans have gone so far from their animal roots that none of these natural laws govern us any longer.
I mean, most animals only have sex when they're in estrus ("heat").
In humans, this would translate to ovulation.
But women have sex when they're not ovulating. Women don't have increasing amounts of sex when they are ovulating. There is no evidence that men are more sexually attracted to ovulating women.

We've lost touch with our primal physicality, and are entirely cerebral creatures, cut off from instinct. This is good. This means we have free will.
Nature and biology do not define us, we are captains of our own destinies.

The "boob" thing is entirely a social construct. It is no biological mandate. Not all men care about big boobs. Most men would prefer an attractive woman with small boobs to an ugly woman with big boobs. The higher up the socioeconomic/ class scale you go, the more you will find this to be true.
There is nothing about breasts that is inherently sexually attractive. It is that they have been fetishized by our society, because it has deemed them taboo.
In most parts of subsaharan Africa, breasts are not taboo, but legs are. Women walk around bare from the waist up, wearing wrap skirts that cover their bodies from hip to ankle.
Nobody cares about seeing their breasts. But if any part of their legs showed, it would be a scandal.
Legs have been fetishized there, in the same way that breasts have been here.

You see, it's all so silly.
People must be comfortable, that's the important thing.
Here in the South, it gets very hot.
It would not be fair that men could pull off their shirts and jump in the pool, if women could not.
 
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1069 said:
I hardly have any breasts at all, and I've never had the slightest problem attracting men. In absolute droves, when I was younger.

Actually, I've seen studies that indicate that the greatest indicator of innate sexual attractiveness in females is not breast size, but waist/hip ratio.
Then again, my waist/hip ratio isn't great, either, so there's another theory out the window.
Perhaps it's that humans have gone so far from their animal roots that none of these natural laws govern us any longer.
I mean, most animals only have sex when they're in estrus ("heat").
In humans, this would translate to ovulation.
But women have sex when they're not ovulating. Women don't have increasing amounts of sex when they are ovulating. There is no evidence that men are more sexually attracted to ovulating women.

We've lost touch with our primal physicality, and are entirely cerebral creatures, cut off from instinct. This is good. This means we have free will.
Nature and biology do not define us, we are captains of our own destinies.

The "boob" thing is entirely a social construct. It is no biological mandate. Not all men care about big boobs. Most men would prefer an attractive woman with small boobs to an ugly woman with big boobs. The higher up the socioeconomic/ class scale you go, the more you will find this to be true.
There is nothing about breasts that is inherently sexually attractive. It is that they have been fetishized by our society, because it has deemed them taboo.
In most parts of subsaharan Africa, breasts are not taboo, but legs are. Women walk around bare from the waist up, wearing wrap skirts that cover their bodies from hip to ankle.
Nobody cares about seeing their breasts. But if any part of their legs showed, it would be a scandal.
Legs have been fetishized there, in the same way that breasts have been here.

You see, it's all so silly.
People must be comfortable, that's the important thing.
Here in the South, it gets very hot.
It would not be fair that men could pull off their shirts and jump in the pool, if women could not.
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i don't disagree with anything you said here...but to say that many men are not attracted to boobs would be incorrect. and to say that we are totally cut off from our instinct would probably not be entirely true..again i agree that it is more cultural than not, but it is the culture we live in...there would have to be a cultural shift before a widespread freeing of the boobies....but if it happens i'm personally all for it....on a personal note i'm more of a booty man my self:mrgreen:
 
If anything, men are biased in favor of women nursing in public...havent you ever seen Me, Myself and Ireen?
 
I support Facebook's rule--totally.

I breastfed my son for 10 months and did not ever breastfeed in public. For whatever reason, I find it rather gross when I see a woman doing it openly in public. Cover yourself up. Ewwwwww. To me, this was the highlight of my being a new mother, and doing it in public would have ruined that experience for me.

I do want to point out that I openly breastfed my son at a breastfeeding support group at a hospital and when I hung out with my breastfeeding friends (whom I met through that support group).

I think it's weird that women want to post themselves breastfeeding. WTF?
 
Honestly i can't remember where i heard that, it was on some documenteray somewhere...i'm sure if i dug hard enough i could find it, but seriously man...if you think about other animals like baboons who have big red butts to attract a mate or some birds who have colored breast areas you kinda see that the area seems to be used for attracting the opposite sex...
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Well then you'd have to show that breasts are the human equivalent to a baboon's ass.

like i said...if our culture were different i would agree totally
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Culture changes, and can be changed both consciously and unconsciously. This is a conscious attempt to change it.

The "boob" thing is entirely a social construct. It is no biological mandate. Not all men care about big boobs. Most men would prefer an attractive woman with small boobs to an ugly woman with big boobs. The higher up the socioeconomic/ class scale you go, the more you will find this to be true.
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What?:confused:

Ewwwwww.
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Ewww gross boobies!:roll:
 
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aps said:
I support Facebook's rule--totally.

I breastfed my son for 10 months and did not ever breastfeed in public. For whatever reason, I find it rather gross when I see a woman doing it openly in public. Cover yourself up. Ewwwwww. To me, this was the highlight of my being a new mother, and doing it in public would have ruined that experience for me.
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I did breastfeed a couple times in public but always put a shawl on over myself and excused myself to a bench or a nice grassy spot a little away from the crowd. I don't find anything wrong with breastfeeding or pictures of it. I do see Facebook's point of view. If you allow woman to show some breast and nipple when they are breastfeeding, why can't other women show it as well? And with so many young people using Facebook, they would then need to police all the time, making sure all the pictures of young ladies with breasts hanging out were of age, which would be very, very difficult to prove. My sister is only 12 and uses Facebook and Myspace, and says she is 19. She can look like it, in some of her pics, so then if she was to post a picture of herself and her small little boobs saying she was 19, how are they going to really know that she is 12 and that's where all the lawsuits and child pornagraphy comes into play. So while I find nothing personally wrong with women showing breasts or breastfeeding in public or in pictures, I can see where Facebook is coming from. Also with so many minor mothers, again child pornagraphy can come into play there too.
 
Attaching a baby to a nipple is about the only sure-fire way to make breasts seem unappealing.
 
WI Crippler said:
Attaching a baby to a nipple is about the only sure-fire way to make breasts seem unappealing.
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But you like mine otherwise?

And no, I'm not shaving them. :shock:
 
WI Crippler said:
Your tits are fine, its the ball sack and penis I'm not hot on. And as you alluded to, the body hair as well.:2razz:
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You are just too picky. :2razz:
 
I think the entire thing is freaking ridiculous. I'll never forget the day I decided I hated Barbara Walters. She was bitching about not being able to deal with a woman breastfeeding on a plane. WTF IS wrong with people? I mean really! Get the hell over it people. When I go to the pool, the beach, wherever I see all manner of titties- most bigger than mine and belonging to lardass men. It's not as if their tits don't have nipples, they do. Now if I can deal with that then I say to god damn hell with anyone who can't handle a woman feeding her baby. Go blow it out your uptight asses retards.
 
aps said:
I support Facebook's rule--totally.

I breastfed my son for 10 months and did not ever breastfeed in public. For whatever reason, I find it rather gross when I see a woman doing it openly in public. Cover yourself up. Ewwwwww. To me, this was the highlight of my being a new mother, and doing it in public would have ruined that experience for me.

I do want to point out that I openly breastfed my son at a breastfeeding support group at a hospital and when I hung out with my breastfeeding friends (whom I met through that support group).

I think it's weird that women want to post themselves breastfeeding. WTF?
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Well just like there are women in the world who think it's embarrassingly inappropriate to leave the house without an escort and a full body tent I suppose it's inevitable that there are women like you.

The way I see that is "Not my problem."
 
Graffight said:
i don't disagree with anything you said here...but to say that many men are not attracted to boobs would be incorrect. and to say that we are totally cut off from our instinct would probably not be entirely true..again i agree that it is more cultural than not, but it is the culture we live in...there would have to be a cultural shift before a widespread freeing of the boobies....but if it happens i'm personally all for it....on a personal note i'm more of a booty man my self:mrgreen:
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You think women somehow aren't attracted to some hot hard bodied guy in a pair of jeans with no top on?

I'm sure women would be much the same as men. Every once in awhile you'd see someone who was really hot, distractingly so. But more often than not what you'd see would be no big deal.

Plus, breastfeeding isn't erotic.
 
jallman said:
Facebook is privately owned and they have every right to establish whatever rules they wish in regards to what the site finds acceptable or not. I couldn't give two curses about the breast feeding picture issue. What I find idiotic is that these people think that by intentionally violating the TOS of the site, they are going to force it to comply.

Ban 'em all if they don't like the rules, **** 'em. Let 'em go to myspace or something.
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There's often lots of pushing before changes come. Who doesn't know that?
 
talloulou said:
There's often lots of pushing before changes come. Who doesn't know that?
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And there's lots of accepting consequences for pushing, too. I hope every one of them who changed their profile picture to something against the TOS gets banned with a swiftness.
 
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