Blimey - Facebook has removed our picture of a baby being breastfed...

It's still there. Fb has no standards

did they remove it when you reported it?
I reported a post somebody had made on a friend's page which was saying that Hitler would pleased in response to something racist. It wasn't removed as "it didn't violate their community standards"

Facebook has standards? Who knew?!

I saw an image of two men being hung in Pakistan... and they removed a breastfeeding photo..... fb is warped

atticus I love that idea!

Plenty of women accept it, though. See post above from poster whose female friend didn't want to see pictures of women breastfeeding.

it's men that sexualise boobs. not women

Whenever i see offensive pictures of naked / scantily clad women on adverts in the street / magazines etc i wish i had a sticker of a baby i could stick on her boob or coming out of her legs akimbo pose. Would highlight the utter ludicrousnes of the double standards in the way women are represented in the media. Can you imagine the horror if the tabloids replaced their daily upskirt shots with pictures of childbirth? good god, the country would implode. Men wouldn't be able to venture out of their homes for fear of what they might see. A bit like life is for women now, in fact.

As a previous poster also experienced: not so long ago I reported a post on facebook for inciting racial hatred (not directly in the original post, but it was present in the comments beneath it). I was surprised to get an email back from facebook saying they didn't deem anything wrong with the post and would not be removing it. I'm very, very angry to hear they've removed a picture and post about breastfeeding and frankly feel like boycotting.

Aww! thanks KatherinaMinola :) she wasn't really a toddler though; she was 4.3 years old! it only went on for another 7 months :(

Didn't Mr facebook recently get married? If they have dc, and she chooses to bf, I expect he won't be impressed if him and his dw are asked to move along. Or you know, post a pic of fb if they like.

And, fwiw, my status pic on FB for a good long time ( year or so) was me bf my dd, and no one kicked up a stink. Maybe i wasn't ostentasious enough:)

Error? Hmm... I smell the fear of an online fight to the death! Boobs versus face. The boobs are victorious. Well done mumsnetters, go about your business

Jolly good. Hopefully the team of teenage boys or whoever it is who does the moderating on FB get a bit of training on their own guidelines.

Btw, that is another gorgeous picture upthread, of the toddler being breastfed.

Good, I'm glad they've been sensible about it and restored the photo. Let's hope they'll take the same line in future.

Have they? I don't recall them always being allowed.

Oh well, fair play.

I hate the 'I have no problem with breastfeeding, as long as it's discreet' argument. It implies that women's bodies and the act of feeding and nurturing a child are shameful and indecent. They just aren't and I resent the implication that my body is disgusting.

The other old chestnut, "You wouldn't urinate or defecate in public so why do that?" These lot obviously don't understand the difference between eating and shitting and need some help/ a biology lesson.

Lately I've also seen "well I wouldn't get my dick out and start wanking in the middle of a restaurant." Well that is a relief but I don't see what it's got to do with anything.

"I do see that discretion feeding is important, and there is a balance between flopping out your boobs for all and sundry"

Discretion is NOT important.

If it was perfectly socially acceptable to breastfeed without hiding your breast for 200 000 years of human history (it was) then you have to ask yourself why it's suddenly considered socially unacceptable now, at a time when women generally dress more scantily than ever before.

And can we stop with the language ('flopping out boobs for all and sundry') designed to characterise normal breastfeeding behaviours are grotesque and obscene?

Insisting on 'discretion' and pandering to people who insist on it is just another way of insinuating that breastfeeding is indecent. It isn't. For thousands of years it was the subject for high art and display in churches and grand houses. Why is it only now that we expect women to hide under a cloth to do it and consider it somehow shameful?

They probably wouldn't much like this Rubens painting from the Dulwich Picture Gallery. Long-distance breastfeeding!

Would facebook remove this

Ughhh
I complained about a shared post / link ofa woman in short shorts and boobie top, all comments were completely sexualising her. I said it objectified women and that offended me. Facebook did nought.

Obviously it's censorship department is run by a bunch of hormone ridden sexually repressed muppets

I have shared this and I notice that none of my friends have "liked" it so far.