Hello my fellow women,

I write this post both to mothers past, present and future.  The breast-feeding controversy is back!  I was reading about it in the NY Times.  Now here is what got me going, a man left a comment that read : “Sorry ladies, capitalism says you don’t exist. Now go make future facebook users.”

Social-networking site Facebook’s decision to ban some breast-feeding photos has sparked a massive online debate — and protests.

Kelli Roman, a San Diego resident whose photograph of her feeding her daughter was removed by Facebook, is one of the administrators of an online petition called “Hey Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene!” The petition has 85,122 members. Meanwhile, protesters organized a virtual “nurse-in” on the site and held a small demonstration outside Facebook’s office in Palo Alto, Calif.

“I have not heard a word from Facebook,” says Roman, 23, a mother of two. “My ultimate goal is to make breast-feeding acceptable in public. I have nothing against Facebook.”

Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt said the site takes no action over most breast-feeding photos because they follow the site’s terms of use, but others are removed to ensure the site remains safe and secure for all users, including children.

“Photos containing a fully exposed breast (as defined by showing the nipple or areola) do violate those terms (on obscene, pornographic or sexually explicit material) and may be removed,” Schnitt said in a statement. “The photos we act upon are almost exclusively brought to our attention by other users who complain.”

Having grown up outside the U.S. I find this country’s fascination with breast-feeding rather interesting.  I am not going to go biology on folk, but here is the deal.  Breast-feeding is natural and in no way shape or form is it to be compared with relieving oneself as one commentator did.

In a country where porn is hailed as a viable business, where many men have become wealthy over the exposition of female breasts…ha come on!
You know why I am writing this post? Because of something I learned on Donna Fox’s website Why She Buys, Donna Fox asserts that :

Women influence 97% of buying decisions.

It’s true, whether it be consumer, personal, household or corporate, on average, women are influencing 97% of the buying decisions that are made.

Even when a man is making a purchase for himself, he’s been influenced by the women in his life. Men use the same detergent, mayonnaise, and other household items that their mothers use. They buy the clothes that their female friends tell them they look good in.

Perhaps more importantly, they make decisions not to buy based on the approval of the women in their lives.

This site is dedicated to understanding the reasons why a woman buys, how to market effectively to women, and gain a greater capture of your marketshare.

Well ladies, it is about time we start taking our power seriously!  Is it true that pictures of breastfeeding is obscene?  NO.  Is porn obscene YES!  Breasts are for nurture, that is the purpose for which they were designed.  The fact that they are beautiful and appealing to some of our population is very incidental at best.  When women allow themselves to be exploited for the gain (and sadly not their own personal gain, but the gain of another) now that is wrong and yet I do not see women up in arms over this issue!

I guess have been accustomed to seeing women feeding their children in public, I am desensitized to the issue.  No one complains when I stop to get a meal because I am hungry, so why do we complain when the baby needs to stop and get their meal?  Oh I forget it is because the meal comes from a breast! Oh…Duh! I get it!  Hey ladies, why don’t you starve your children?!  I choose a picture of an average woman to display on my post.  Why?  I wanted something non-mainstream so I could be objective, and honestly I see nothing sexual about that picture.

I am willing to admit, when I see mainstream pictures (I am trying not to offend), well there is a certain element of sexuality, as it has been impressed upon my mind by the media.  Hey look at the very least I am being honest!

BTW, these women are the very ones that socialize their children, the very children who make sites such as facebook, myspace and twitter the power-houses we know them to be today!

IMHO facebook may be taking on a powerhouse beyond its resources!

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I am woman, here me roar!