On Dec 7, 2010, at 5:44 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Why do people join Facebook, when it's owned
by sociopaths and perverts?
and then wrote:
It's not the people that join that are sociopaths
and perverts, it's the people that control the site
that are sociopaths and perverts.
Only a sociopath and pervert can think that
breastfeeding is pornography. It's disrespectful
to breastfeeding (and to pornography too, but wfc?)
All the billions that g*vernments invest all the
time to make mothers breastfeed, and those sociopaths
and perverts create a Social Network that criminalizes
it. They should be exiled to Antarctica.
It seemed to me that the initial post could have been an excellent
illustration of a trap question in the mold of "Have you stopped
beating your wife?", and left it alone, admiring the complex twists of
it semantic seductiveness.
But this seems to be a much better question to answer in the real world.
The answer is that the culture at large has some very unhealthy and
dysfunctional ideas about nudity and sex, and tends to perceive
women's exposed breasts (regardless of the reasons why they're
exposed) as a sexualized image. I don't know if this is more so, or
less so, in Brazil than it is in the USA (I've heard widely
conflicting reports), but with only limited exceptions in some more
open-minded areas of the country, people are taught to consider
exposed female breasts a moral threat of sorts (under the guise of
"protecting children") and some websites run by people who adhere to
that belief system tend to discriminate in that way rather, er,
indiscriminately.
I don't like the paradigm, I strongly feel that the value system that
underlies it is ultimately more destructive and unhealthy than
anything else, but it's a very deep-rooted paradigm that would require
far more than my own meager efforts to shift. And whether I happen to
like it or not, Facebook is likely to continue this behavior for the
foreseeable future. I wouldn't necessarily call the attitudes driving
it sociopathic, but I suppose I could call some of them perverted, for
a fairly loose definition of perversion.
(A similar definition exists in a more extreme form in parts of the
Arab world where women are forced to wrap themselves in clothing to
the extent that they can barely even see, supposedly to avoid tempting
nearby men into acts of lust. Both are a form of blaming the victim,
and I think men who believe this about women need to work on impulse
control more than they need to harass the womenfolk into covering
themselves up, but that may just be me.)
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians
are so unlike your Christ.” -- Mahatma Gandhi
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