However, when a website has the option of choosing to report offensive material and refuses to remove said offensive material....well, I take offense.
Facebook frequently removes images of mothers breastfeeding their children. Breastfeeding is not offensive. If you are offended by breastfeeding then frankly you are a moron. There is no other suitable explanation for even reporting an image of a woman breastfeeding a child as offensive in the first place. The only explanation as far as I'm concerned is you're an idiot. Facebook does not agree with me. Just last month they made the news yet again for removing breastfeeding images. Don't believe me? Read this Huffington Post article.
Facebook will remove images of women using their boobs for their physiological purpose--to feed their young--and yet Facebook won't remove images I find far more graphic and offensive. The image I want removed RIGHT NOW is an internet meme on the group page for Offensive Humor at its Best. This image shows a young adult with tape over her mouth and reads, "Don't wrap it and tap it. Tape her and rape her."
Let me reiterate that:
"Don't wrap it and tap it. Tape her and rape her."
This image has been reported and numerous users have been informed that this image is not considered offensive by Facebook and will not be removed.
So Facebook thinks promoting breastfeeding is offensive, but promoting rape isn't.
I am sickened. This meme literally makes me want to vomit. It promotes rape. It advocates for men to ditch condoms and consensual sex, and rape someone instead.
How is that not offensive? How is that not offensive enough to merit removal? How is that not graphic, violent, and hateful?
I am DISGUSTED. You should be disgusted too.
There is nothing even remotely funny about a meme that promotes rape. Don't tell me to get a sense of humor. That's not funny. If you'd ever been raped then it really wouldn't be "funny" to you now would it? It really wouldn't be "amusing" then. It shouldn't be amusing now.
This isn't humor. This isn't just some tasteless joke. This isn't a haha-funny-funny meme.
This is ABHORRENT. This is DISGRACEFUL. This is REPUGNANT.
It isn't laughable. It isn't a laughing matter. Rape isn't funny.
There is something seriously wrong with a policy that allows images of women feeding babies to be removed while at the same time allowing images promoting graphic sexual violence to remain in place.
I am very unamused about that meme.
ReplyDeleteI am absolutely disgusted by this whole situation. I do not see how they can claim this doesn't violate their community standards. It very clearly "attacks a person based on their gender" (in FB community standards language). Wow.
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ReplyDeleteI don't feed the trolls. If you leave an anonymous comment attempting to offend or insult me on my blog then I will not publish it, and you will fail miserably in your attempt to insult me as I simply find "anonymous" mudslingers cowardly and do not respect their opinions.
If, however, you wish to insult me using your name then I will at least have a modicum of respect for you, though I likely will still elect not to publish your remark.
If you have an intelligently expressed opinion (i.e. one which does not resort to name calling or passive aggressive ugliness) then I will publish your comment even if I do not agree with your opinion.
Thanks!
I have not seen that image and I am glad I have not. Facebook, like many other sites, is going to leave what gets the promotion and what builds the hype. If tons of people flocked to this horrible post, they are loving it- the sponsors seen on the page are loving it. It is sickening. As for the mystery commenter. I do allow posts by anyone with a given name. I have found that by not posting the comments by those that remain unnamed, you actually do help them. The times I have allowed trolls to post on mine, sane logical people have taken it upon themselves to rip a new bum-hole for that troller. So, this unnamed person should truly be thankful to you right now.
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