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.

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[whumpdotcom.livejournal.com]

1. hardvice reported to LJ abuse for default icon of topless woman.
2. hardvice says if you're banning my icon, then you should ban that icon of a breast feeding infant too.
3. User with breastfeeding icon pissed off.
4. Other users complain that there's a difference between a page three girl and a photo of an infant breastfeeding.
5. LJ staff say, no, there isn't according to the rules.
6. Some users lose the plot and think LJ/6A is anti-breastfeeding.
7. * conjecture * 6A staff contemplate that line from Richard III about killing all the lawyers.
8. More users adopt breast feeding default icons.
9. At the same time, at least one user scours the site looking for users with a breastfeeding primary icon and report them as TOS violations to abuse.
10. At this point, the one day boycott was proposed. [ed. I don't think the boycott will do any good, raising the matter to the Mena/Joi/Anil level might.]

Meanwhile, there are backstories:

1. Breastfeeding mothers, already tired at being shunned, yelled at, etc. think: "Jesus on a Segway, here's another place the culture's gone hating on us."

2. The crowd who normally tries to remove Harry Potter, and/or Our Bodies, Ourselves from libraries has now decided to go after LJ, Facebook, MySpace etc, and want those sites banned from schools and libraries. Legislation has been introduced.

So, instead of your rather vapid sterotype, there is an actual story behind this.