While perusing the local news yesterday I found an article that truly boggled my mind. Living in Provo, I’m constantly amused (or driven mad) by the quirky antics of a homogenized society. But this story takes the cake for all time stupidity. Are you ready? Here goes:

A woman in Provo staged a protest last week in front of social network Facebook’s headquarters in California. 11,000-plus people. A “sit-in”, they called it. Why? Because Facebook took down a profile photo of this woman nursing her baby.  Gasp.  I know. What a travesty. See article below:

http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=5191633

In her own words she says she wants to protest for the rights of her daughter. What rights? The right her daughter has not to be hot under a blanket in public when she has to eat? Well, lady. Let me tell you something. If not being hot at the cost of decency was a right I’d be a nudist from June to October. I don’t think the kid cares.

There are a ton of worthy causes to fight for these days; global warming, global cooling, save the ducks, nuke the whales…and the list continues. Why is breastfeeding in public an issue? I guess I’ve never had kids so I don’t know the bonding that takes place between mother and child sitting at a bus stop exposing it all. When most people do that they get arrested.

But maybe I’m just being prudish. Although I doubt that.  When I was four the neighbors called my parents and told them a naked little girl was dancing around on the roof. Apparently I’d escaped from the bathtub. So nudity is no foreign offense. But I learned early on that being naked in public is not a right. Its a privilege of the crazies. And the French.

I say before staging this protest she could have stopped for a moment and asked herself, “is this photo of me nursing my baby worth the embarrassment this poor child is going to experience later on when every on the playground calls her ‘the boob girl’”? I think not. But hey-its Utah County. Thinking is not a commodity around here.  Burn.

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