AIBU to think that Instagram are Chauvinistic Prudes to ban pic of stretchmarks

[damepeanutbutter]

Once again women's bodies are not fit to be on display unless men allow them to be and only then if they are perfect and for their own titillation.

uk.lifestyle.yahoo.com/mum-horrified-after-instagram-deletes-her-post-birth-pregnancy-stretch-mark-pic-095019566.html

A 20-year old woman posted a pic on Instagram of her stretcharked tum after the birth of her twins and within an instant Instagram had removed it because it showed 'nudity'. To be frank I've seen more flesh on display at my local pool or on the Spanish beach we visited last year.

Women are people, Instagram #LoveYourLines

I think the anger would be better directed at whoever reported it.

Instagram has over 300 million monthly active users, so the account was probably just suspended until someone looked into the report.

Sorry but is anyone just sick of these social media narcissists? How long did it take her to run the papers ffs? Instagram responds to reports with investigations and I'm sure reinstated in by the time she was able to perfect her daily mail sad face.

And a #loveyourlines hashtag is just vomit inducing.

So IABU then ?

Yes, I think YMBU, because the picture didn't contain nudity and Instagram have said it was a mistake to delete.

So the issues that banning the image might have raised, don't apply because there was no such ban.

And a #loveyourlines hashtag is just vomit inducing.

Almost as bad as that fucking 'tiger stripes' stretchmark thing doing the rounds.

Yes

They don't have millions of staff members sitting around, waiting to check out every single report immediately.

Direct your anger at whoever reported her.

And as an aside, if she's going to post pics on the internet (and now in the tabloids), she needs to get a thicker skin as even the most 'perfect' looking people get crap thrown at them too.

Yabu, was there a need to put this out there in the first place. And to that hashtag.

Yabu for the reasons outlined above.

Also the woman is quoted as saying they made her feel like she fat and that what was so upsetting. As though the fact that some dickhead might think you are fat is the end of the world. The article screamed 'i am going to sue instagram for upsetting me'. She did it to get some instafame. It didn't work so she ran to the papers, it was nothing to do with being proud of her body after childbirth.

The real shit is the poster/s that reported her.

So someone reported the post and Instagram took it down without checking whether it was offensive or not. So can one report anything as offensive and it's removed instantly? THen they check it? That must double their workload ..........

No 'someone' didn't take it down.

They have an automated system, just like FB does.

Once something/someone gets reported, they suspend the account until a person can get around to looking at it.

Hence the reason she got her account back.

No 'someone' didn't take it down.

I said that Instagram took it down - not 'someone'.....

Well, the story made a whole hour of phone in on LBC today so wish you lot had phoned in!