Breast feeding is a hot-bed subjecy to begin with. To add something as petty as 'But I have the RIGHT to show a baby sucking at a naked breast in my icon!' only makes it worse.
As a country, we admittedly have severe issues with this sort of stuff, but throwing a fit over not being able to have a certain type of default icon is petty and quite honestly demeaning to the 'greater cause' they keep trying to tie it to.
There are better things to talk about in regards to getting women out of the dark ages--bigger concerns than one icon out of many.
Personally, I think it was a decision made from common sense. A lot of people really do find any nudity and/or blatant visuals of natural functions disgusting, rude and base--enough to take legal action against it when they run across it. LJ is just trying to cover as much ass as it can without having to resort to outright banning the things like, say, GJ does.
It's no big deal to go back into the menu and pick a new icon...and if you're someplace where you can't sign all the way in anyway, than maybe choosing that icon is not the most intelligent thing to be doing in the first place.
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Date: 2006-06-09 03:02 am (UTC)As a country, we admittedly have severe issues with this sort of stuff, but throwing a fit over not being able to have a certain type of default icon is petty and quite honestly demeaning to the 'greater cause' they keep trying to tie it to.
There are better things to talk about in regards to getting women out of the dark ages--bigger concerns than one icon out of many.
Personally, I think it was a decision made from common sense. A lot of people really do find any nudity and/or blatant visuals of natural functions disgusting, rude and base--enough to take legal action against it when they run across it. LJ is just trying to cover as much ass as it can without having to resort to outright banning the things like, say, GJ does.
It's no big deal to go back into the menu and pick a new icon...and if you're someplace where you can't sign all the way in anyway, than maybe choosing that icon is not the most intelligent thing to be doing in the first place.