I was listening to Jian Ghomeshi this morning when he started to discuss this "Should Facebook take down 'rape joke' pages?
As an aside it is World Breastfeeding week. Why are these two things even remotely related you might ask?
Well maybe you recall that Facebook considers pictures of a woman nursing a child obscene. Therefore they will remove any pictures of a woman nursing her child... but they won't remove these 'rape joke pages' as these are not obscene. Hmmmmmm.....
Why do we live in a culture that believes nursing a child is obscene, and rape jokes are OK? Showing a woman feeding her child cannot be pictured on Facebook, but these distasteful jokes can. I have read the comments on the Blog to the discussion on Q today, and lots say let the Internet monitor itself, free speech etc. etc. OK then, same rules for all. But they aren't. Facebook the giant of social media has decided which is OK and which isn't. Facebook's stance on these two issues boggles my mind. Why is this OK? Even Facebook with a petition of over 200,000 thousand signatures hasn't changed their position on the 'rape jokes' pages....
This dichotomy bothers me... pictures of breastfeeding = obscene, rape jokes = OK?
Your thoughts?
Great commentary - thank you.
ReplyDelete