The Indecency of Breasts
Yesterday was Boobquake and even though we don’t live in a Muslim nation and hopefully no one in America actually thinks boobs cause earthquakes, breasts are still considered dangerous. Yesterday facebook labeled at least some if not all of the boobquake photos indecent and pulled them from the site.
For those who don’t know what Boobquake is, please check out my examiner article. I am pretty sure that the administrators of facebook weren’t worries that all the photos of partially covered breasts would cause an earthquake under the facebook servers. So why were these photos taken down?
Yes, they obviously were a violation of Sharia Law, but that was the whole point. Breasts aren’t actually dangerous and these breasts were partially covered anyway.
I posted a photo on behave of Dangerous Talk to the boobquake page. This was a photo taken of Dangerous Talk supporter Sachiko McLean. I actually had the choice of posting a fully nude version, but decided that it might be too great a risk if children saw it, there eyes might literally pop out of their sockets. I didn’t want to be responsible for blinding anyone.
I know it sounds silly. I don’t think nude women cause eye balls to pop out of their sockets either. That would make about as much sense as the claim that immodestly dressed women cause earthquakes. Still, facebook pulled down many of these boobquake photos including the Dangerous Talk photo. Why?
I know the reason they gave, but it is just unreasonable. They claimed the photos were indecent. What about them makes them indecent? Why are they indecent? What makes something indecent, anyway? They didn’t cause any earthquakes nor did they cause people’s eyes to pop out of their sockets. So what’s the big deal?
Filed under: Blasphemy, censorship, culture war, facebook, family values, islam, Religion, sex
