Sex Sales at the MySpace Bazaar - Breastfeeding Edition
It's been a little bit since we last had breastfeeder wank. That's a tragedy and a travesty, and so, courtesy a lovely mousey over on Wank Report, it's time for a comedy in two acts: The Great MySpace Breast Oppression.

bronzegoddess wants us all to know about a VERY IMPORTANT petition. To wit:

Subject: Please sign this REAL petition!

This isn't a joke. It's not a stupid little test that you have to repost or the love of your life will die THIS FRIDAY like OMGodz NOOOO!1!11!! This is about Myspace attempting to take away a woman's right to post a completely non-sexual photo of her breastfeeding her child. Yes, this coming from the same site that allows photos to be posted of barely post pubescent children flashing their tatas and weewees for the camera to get a few more hits to their profile and maybe entice a dirty old man to want to hunt them down for some playtime.

Anywho...here's the link for the petition:

http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?

Apparently, it's against the TOS of Myspace for me and everyone else to have a picture of our child breastfeeding. Breastfeeding is not a crime in the USA, a breastfeeding woman cannot be charged with any kind of indecent exposure even if her breast in whole or in part is visible before during or after feeding her child. Some may point out that Myspace is not only used by people in the US and I say that the US is the main country with such a stick up its ass regarding breastfeeding. It's not wonder formula feeding is so rampant.

ARGH!

This hurts my brain.

Please "sign" the petition.

-Jamie

And this is the link to the woman that Myspace is threatening to remove:

http://www.myspace.com/my_family_of_5

There is wank everywhere you look in the

_pregnant_ post. Consider this a cheese sampler, if you will:

She's also posted over on our old friend,

breastfeeding, here. No real wank yet, just agreement with the OP, but I live forever in hope.

ETA:

stupid_free gets in on the act. The best part so far is the, uh, "debate" over whether the government owns MySpace.

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	runrunmarch 2007-02-27 02:55 am UTC (link)
	[ . . . ] what would have happened if say, Rosa parks simply stopped riding the bus because she didn't want to have to sit in the back? Okay, so all I could think of when she said that was "So wait, they're making the boobs go to the back of the bus?!" (Reply to this)(Thread)

	hallidae 2007-02-27 02:58 am UTC (link)
	Goddammit, I wish these people would quit bringing up the Rosa Parks comparisons. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	pastri_archy 2007-02-27 03:12 am UTC (link)
	Hah. I clicked in, and then backed right out, and I thought I hallucinated that statement. thwack For the lose. Civil rights =/= squalling about pictures you can show somewhere else. hate (Reply to this)(Parent)

	breecita 2007-02-27 03:54 am UTC (link)
	Not to get history in the way of this, or anything... but isn't not riding the bus sorta what everyone did in order to, you know, boycott the bus? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	mmanurere 2007-02-27 05:06 am UTC (link)
	No! Rosa Parks (who was ttly just tired and not taking a deliberate political action and hadn't been an activist for years or anything) just refused to move and all the kindly-but-misguided Montgomery white people lifted her up on their shoulders and carried her all the way to the state legislature to pass a comprehensive civil rights bill. Trufax. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	breecita 2007-02-27 05:12 am UTC (link)
	Man, I missed all the important historical facts! Thank you kindly for edjumacating me. I feel I have grown now. As a person. Maybe I should join MySpace in protest! I bet that's the way to conquer them! (Reply to this)(Parent)

oar
2007-02-27 09:49 pm UTC (link)

Dude! I remember reading in my elementary school history book about how Rosa Parks 'didn't want to get up because she was tired.' Which is not only insulting, but also gives the impression that the woman herself only had value as an unintentional catalyst. For years I was puzzled as to why everyone made such a big deal out of her, until someone set me straight.

I guess they were scared to introduce the little kiddies to the concept of deliberate civil disobediance. Or the textbook writers were racist. Could go either way.

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	goldberry 2007-02-28 12:20 am UTC (link)
	That's what we were taught in elementary school, too, the one time they mentioned her (I don't know how old you are, but I'm only 23, so that's some pretty recent bullshit, in an otherwise quite good school in Pittsburgh). I didn't find out the truth until I became involved in activism myself. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	innsmouth_eyes 2007-02-27 09:31 am UTC (link)
	Is there a Rosa Parks law on the books yet? Something like, "If you compare yourself to Rosa Parks in an argument, you automatically lose." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	napalmnacey 2007-02-27 12:18 pm UTC (link)
	No, but there should be. (Grammar YAY). (Reply to this)(Parent)

	missdaisy 2007-02-27 05:28 pm UTC (link)
	"If you compare yourself to Rosa Parks, you have to go to the back of internet." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crevette 2007-02-27 05:58 pm UTC (link)
	Which is using a 56k modem or something. I forgot who said that, but that comment was so made of win. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kittikattie 2007-02-27 06:10 pm UTC (link)
	There's Tubman's Law. And this article someone linked on stupid_free: http://www.time.com/time/sampler/article/0,8599,96988,00.html (Reply to this)(Parent)

	glossing2 2007-02-27 11:09 pm UTC (link)
	There's a Sports Night quotation! That's almost as good, right? "Danny, because I love you, I can say this to you: no rich white guy has ever gotten anywhere with me by comparing himself to Rosa Parks." -- Issac Jaffe, Sports Night (Reply to this)(Parent)

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