Sustin protestele mamelor carora le-a fost suspendat contul de Facebook din cauza pozelor cu copii la san

Azi au loc in toata lumea proteste. Mamicile sunt nemultumite pentru ca li se suspenda conturile de facebook si youtube atunci cand posteaza o poza sau un film cu un bebelus alaptat. Alaptarea este ceva natural, nu este nimic rusinos. Nu am fi ajuns aici ca specie fara alaptare. Sanii dezgoliti total, cu scop sexual, sunt permisi. Hranirea unui copil cu biberonul e permisa. Si atunci nu e absurd ca un lucru mai natural decat situatiile de mai sus, alaptarea unui copil, sa nu fie permisa?

Aceste aberatii nu sunt de azi, de ieri. Prima data le-am citit aici Tens of ThousandsProtest Facebook Ban of Breastfeeding Photos in 2008. Si, ca de obicei, mi-a placut mult cum le spune Mike Adams:

“Modern society has isolated itself from the natural world to such a sick degree that even a human baby nourishing itself from its mother's own breast is considered obscene!”

“Besides, there's nothing sexually obscene about a baby nursing. If people are reading something obscene into these photos, that's because they're imagining it in their own heads. That baby isn't thinking anything other than food, food, food!”

“Aren't we grown up enough yet as a nation to accept a public image of a baby breastfeeding? Is the human body really so shameful that a mammary gland is considered harmful to the psyche of an adult? Do not forget, people, that the majority of children fed themselves on their mother's breast, too! Should breastfeeding be banned because it's obscene to the baby?”

Ne-am indepartat chiar in asa hal de ce e natural, incat un bebelus ce se hraneste la sanul mamei lui ni se pare obscen? De ce? Daca e forma gurii lui pe sanul mamei, ar trebui sa fie considerate obscene si pozele in care sug dintr-o tetina de biberon.

(Lucru care imi aminteste de poza asta: )

Daca sanii sunt obsceni, de ce nu sunt considerati obsceni in pozele cu femei topless?

Daca in mintea ta imaginea unui copil mic la san iti declanseaza anumite dorinte erotice, atunci problema e la tine, nu la acel copil. El nu gandeste asa ceva cand priveste sanul mamei lui. Functia principala a sanului este pentru alaptare. Abia in ultimii ani, si doar in unele societati, sanii au devenit si o parte anatomica cu rol sexual. Dar sa nu uitam pentru ce ne sunt dati la urma urmei.

Banam orice imagini cu femei alaptand dar nu ne gandim apoi cat de mult influenteaza acest fapt rata de alaptare. O adolescenta va creste cu ideea ca alaptarea e ceva rusinos. Si ca sanii nu sunt facuti pentru asa ceva, ci sanii au numai rol estetic si sexual. Pe vremuri, cand femeile vedeau in familiile lor mamele alaptand, nu erau atatea dificultati in alaptare, nu trebuia ca mamele sa fie invatate sa puna copilul la san. Pentru ca fetele cresteau vazand in jur doar mame alaptand. Stiau cum se alapteaza si nu isi puneau problema ca nu ar avea lapte sau ca exista si posibilitatea sa nu vrei sa alaptezi. Acum, cand interzicem orice poza cu o mama alaptand, ni se pare normal? Chiar vrem sa ajungem o societate in care nu se mai alapteaza deloc, pentru ca e prea rusinos?

Aici puteti vedea multe poze cu tablouri sau sculpturi cu copii alaptati. Aici iar poze minunate, si din arta, si adunate din lumea intreaga, si chiar si mamifere care isi alapteaza puii.

Aici e povestea unei mamici careia i-a fost suspendat contul chiar de ziua copilului, cand a pus o poza cu el la san.

Aici despre un protest din 2010 pe aceeasi tema. Aici despre strangerea unor semnaturi tot dupa banarea contului unei lactiviste.

Imi place mult comparatia pe care o face AnalyticalArmadillo, cu pozele in care sunt tinuti bebelusi la san, si cele care apar in reclame...

Un articol foarte fain, din aprilie 2011, in care Analytical Armadillo povesteste cum i-a fost suspendat contul fara sa aiba nici o poza cu bebelusi alaptati. Ci doar pe considerentul ca e o pagina care sustine alaptarea!!! Deci da, a ajuns sa fie interzis, incep sa ma intreb cine sponsorizeaza Facebook pentru aceste abuzuri. Pun pariu ca puteti banui...

Citate reprezentative din linkul de mai sus:

“Girls topless or in tiny bikinis or thongs, showing more than the breastfeeding pics are allowed to stay - yet provide educational information about something fundamentally key to the health of many and you get deleted?  Sometimes a picture really helps a mum hold her baby better for feeding - but as nobody seems to know where the "Facebook decency line" stands, who dares post one?  Even breastfeeding images the BBC find suitable for their website news are considered obscene on Facebook!”

“Because the fact is Facebook only finds breasts "offensive" in relation to infant feeding.  There is a group called "tits" and I know for a fact several friends have reported images here and on many other pages as obscene - do they get deleted?  No!  Even though one image on the afore mentioned group shows a man licking a woman's breast - so men licking breasts = fine, baby feeding at a breast = obscene; just so we're clear.”

“Yet even acompany that made hats looking like breasts for babies was deleted - yes really, a KNITTED hat!!”

 

“Over a quarter of a million people have "fanned" the page "HeyFacebook, breastfeeding is not obscene" but Facebook aren't listening.  From the page:

"Breastfeeding is normal. Women have breasts to produce milk for their babies, and babies are born to be breastfed. In most of the world everyone knows this, and breastfeeding is “no big deal". In North America, however, and some other parts of the “developed” world...we seem to have forgotten this very simple truth. Womens' breasts have become a symbol of sex. They are used to sell everything from cars to clothes to beer....they have been deemed obscene, sexually explicit and indecent for view by Facebook. Ironic, isn't it? that in the context of sex, we are inundated with images everywhere we look of womens' breasts as commodity, but see practically no examples of them shown in the normal context of breastfeeding."

And that my friends, is the true obscenity....”

Un alt articol frumos, Why SEEING breastfeeding on Facebook,and in real life, is important povesteste despre protestul de azi.

Din articol:

“When Facebook takes this stance against breastfeeding images, it stigmatizes breastfeeding women, and shames women into thinking that their breasts are much, much less than the amazing life-giving source they are. Nipplephobia has reached epic proportions here in North America, and this is to the supreme detriment of babies everywhere.

Just think for one moment, how many more women would breastfeed, or for how much longer, if only we rid society of the harmful practice of over-sexualizing women’s breasts! And how much this, in turn, could benefit the BABIES.

The more we hide it away, classify it as obscene, shame mothers into covering up while feeding, and encourage women to retire to “private” rooms in order to breastfeed the baby, the less we see of it in public, and the less and less people are comfortable with the very idea of nursing in public. This is the sad reality of this pathologically hyper-sexualized (yet sexually repressed…) North American culture of ours.

The solution seems quite simple to me; breastfeeding (and/or images of breastfeeding) need to be seen every day. I am convinced that SEEING more breastfeeding, wherever possible, is what will change our breastfeeding culture. Re-normalize it. There is no law prohibiting women from breastfeeding in public. And so women should do it. And they should feel completely free to do it. Lots of it. As much as possible. “

Chiar si autoritatile oficiale au inceput sa ia masuri, sa le scrie celor de la Facebook ca sunt absurzi. (Dar probabil interesele financiare sunt prea mari)

Aceasta postare a mea deranjeaza mamele care nu au reusit sa alapteze? Sper ca nu, pentru ca orice femeie din lume ar trebui sa se revolte ca s-a ajuns aici. S-a ajuns ca sanii nostri sa fie considerati ok pentru barbati si pentru toti din jur, dar nu si pentru puii nostri. Si asta o consider o mare dovada de misoginism!

Edit: Seara oficialii de la Facebook au dat o declaratie care de fapt nu spune nimic.

http://www.metro.us/newyork/local/article/1090282--moms-protest-facebook-for-deleting-breastfeeding-photos

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150774016733332.510348.585228331&type=3

Edit de distractie:

 "Go ahead. Tell her to cover up. I'll wait over here." :))