Breast with nipple!

[avram]

So, about the breastfeeding icon kerfuffle — you’ve heard, right? Here, get up to speed — I’m probably not going to bother participating in the mass pseudo-deletion of accounts. I’m certainly not going to be going back to Paid Account status (mine lapsed a few weeks back). And I’ve already downloaded a copy of Textpattern with a view towards getting my old blog up and running again, ’cause who the hell needs all this crazy we’re a community no we’re a business bullshit?

Meantime, I worked up a protest icon of sorts, but I don’t think it really hits the spot, what with that being a baby bottle nipple, and with the tension about breast- vs bottle-feeding being part of the driving force behind the kerfuffle. So I won’t be using it. But anyone else wants it, go ahead.

Comments

[gentlyepigrams]

I thought you were one of the few people who had anything sensible to say about the whole thing.

Post a link to your blog if you start it again so I can sub to your feed.

[avram]

Well, it’s one of those things where I agree at least a bit with both sides, and think there’s plenty of bad behavior on both sides. Melissa Singer’s comment on Making Light made me smack my head and realize that this was one of those cases where there’s an issue behind the issue, and that other issue is driving the anger.

Heh, RSS feed. Y’know, there are going to be some advantages to using a blogging package instead of just wiring it all up myself out of half-assed Perl snippets and shoe polish.

[gentlyepigrams]

Oh, yeah, totally, breast vs. bottle and all that implies. Way to start a flame war. hardvice, who started all this, must be feeling mighty, mighty smug if he read any of that.

There are no heroes here. LJ Abuse comes off badly, as it often does, the breastfeeding people come off as unreasonable gits, and the pseudo-deletion is an even stupider form of protest than not buying gas one day to protest high gas prices. I feel marginally stupider for having read up on the matter.

[whumpdotcom.livejournal.com]

Off Topic, but I'm about ready to go back to homebrew blog software, because:

1. Wordpress' support for standards bites.
2. I've found the current builds Moveable Type annoying to work with when you want to customize templates.
3. Outside of LJ or Making Light, weblog comments aren't that useful.
4. cynthia1960 is interested in starting a book review site, so that would be a cool bespoke blogware + µformats project.