YouTube bans breastfeeding video
Categories: Just for moms, Pregnancy & birth
When I saw this I thought I'd heard it before. That's because both FaceBook and MySpace have banned breastfeeding videos as well (this one, in fact).
The League of Maternal Justice reports that YouTube has joined the other losers by banning the breastfeding video. You know, 'cuz it's gross and everything. Right.
As LMJ points out these sites still seem to have plenty of T&A available for viewing in addition to self-mutilation and heaven knows what else. But thank goodness we don't have to be bothered with watching that danged breastfeeding I mean, geez--just because it's the most natural thing in the world and recommended by doctors everywhere (not that they know everything) and both babies and moms seem to dig it doesn't mean anyone would want to see it or accidentally stumble upon it. Am I right or am I right?
Now excuse me, I have to get back to watching the latest ultra-violent slasher film. if you have nothing better to do, say, breastfeed YOUR baby (but not on video--woah!), then LMJ offers a number of ways you can make your voice heard.
HYSTERICAL picture of "discreet" breastfeeding by jinglejammer. Ladies, let's hope it doesn't come to this.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
a breast feeder 11-28-2007 @ 6:47AM
I have had 4 children all breast fed. I remember years ago in the 1970's a woman was arrested on the bus for trying to feed her baby under her shawl! Breasts were made for human milk, they are not sex objects..So if I put a video of a cow feeding a calf, or a child drinking a glass of milk, or a cow being milked to bottle and sell to a family who drinks that, this would also be banned? I think that people are in general, going absolutely nuts, no common sense. This means that Utube will ban anything that gets enough attention as being offensive...Should we now have utube wars, as mothers and go on every site that may offend us, and complain? If these good people find breast feeding instructional video offensive, then why are they deliberately going to the site to watch it? Does the title, breast feeding instructional video, confuse people as to what the content of the video will entail? This is like complaining that a show is offensive, and all you had to do was not watch it, or turn it off...There are some things that should not be in the realm of offensive, and one of them is breast feeding...Have we gone back into the dark ages, will women be made to cover their body in a Sack, like Egyptian women, Muslims etc...and stay inside...This is an attack on motherhood, how dare they attack and demean breast feeding this way...Breast feeding is normal and healthy, the people who think that it's bad, horrible gross or obscene are the sickos...
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J Jordan 11-28-2007 @ 6:50AM
Hi, a breast feeder. I like your idea. Maybe we mothers should take the same stance and bug YouTube about all the garbage on there that offends US!!!
The only problem with that is that breastfeeding shouldn't offend anyone. I also think that the YouTubers, et al, have a right to post things which should not be taken from them.
Our right shouldn't be taken away either. Perhaps if we complain enough they'll get over it and let us post what is surely the most natural thing between a mother and child!
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Jan Bay 11-28-2007 @ 6:52AM
You have to wonder how we got to this place, don't you? We can watch addicts inject themselves with drugs and people taking each others lives on major networks, but breastfeeding is considered obscene?
I can see the need for breastfeeding privacy in public, not because it's an obscenity but because the pervs are out there, but to BAN a video seems very odd in light of the fact of what else can be found.
Jan from http://www.unique-baby-gear-ideas.com
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J Jordan 11-28-2007 @ 6:53AM
Jan, all I can say is that if it were men who breastfed there would be no problem with it at all.
Sigh.
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mamaloo 11-28-2007 @ 9:59AM
Could the problem actually be that the montage's soundtrack is a very popular song by a very popular artist and the League of Maternal Justice does not hold any rights to use it?
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Rob 11-28-2007 @ 12:23PM
I would bet that Mamaloo is correct. If you search "breastfeeding" on YouTube it comes up with more than 1,000 hits. There are instructional videos. There are just videos of women proud to be breastfeeding.
This is not an attack on motherhood, there is some piece of the pie that is missing.
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Laurel 11-28-2007 @ 3:11PM
Yeah, I noticed on the LoMJ site it says they have uploaded a new version "with different music" this week - an interesting, unprompted detail. I find it suspect that they posted this big "call to action" before they even received a response from YouTube, regardless of prior experiences with other sites.
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Eric 11-29-2007 @ 5:31PM
Not to sound thick, but why exactly would anyone want to post a video of someone (themselves or not) breastfeeding?
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Jan Bay 11-30-2007 @ 4:19PM
Mamaloo probably hit the nail on the head. Maybe somebody wasn't getting paid for the song's use rather than feeling that the video was too graphic (I'm still laughing over that after some of the sick stuff they say is out there). Artists are getting cheated out of their royalties right and left with music piracy. They are pretty touchy about their work being used without permission.
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mrs Usama 12-19-2007 @ 7:00PM
hi, I just happen to be a muslim woman that wears the beautiful sack LOL you know the head, body and beautiful feminine face cover called niqab. You know at least in our modest beautiful sacks we can breastfeed our children very modestly and do not have to worry about others seeing it. Breastfeeding for Muslim women has always been natural as prosribed for us in the Noble Quran.
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