I'm eating a vanilla cupcake with pink icing and white sprinkles. It's cute and yummy and matches my outfit! What more could a girl ask for?

Um, did everyone except me know that there's a whole hullaballoo going on about LJ suspending users who have breastfeeding icons as their default? The fuck?

I knew. It's spread everywhere, blogs not LJ based, websites complaining, men with icons showing pictures of their naked nipples and saying it's LJ approved.

According to LJ, the TOS was that no indecent or offensive pictures be used; they added to the FAQ that meant excessively sexual pictures used as default. The current rule has been clarifed to say that no nipple or areolae can be visible. So then it turned into a thing where LJ was discriminating against women who have larger nipples than others (and so possibly a racial issue). It's "only" default pictures. Another bone of contention.

Also, it all started because a guy who was warned for bad behavior spammed LJ abuse with complaints of about 30 women who had those icons in order to stir up this storm. Seems he targeted them specifically because he expected them to be all warriors in arms about it. There have been a number of women suspended since it all started.

I can find links if anyone's interested.

it all started because a guy who was warned for bad behavior spammed LJ abuse with complaints of about 30 women who had those icons in order to stir up this storm.

Man, what an asshole. Please say he's since been suspended himself, please? Even if it's more truthy than actually true?

Um... sure... I can say that.

This is the community most affected: [link]

and this is the journal of the guy who started it all: [link]

The basic background: [link]

Now, I know I'm not a mother or anything, but how in hell can a picture of feeding a child be considered sexual? And no nipple? I assume that means no icons of paintings or sculptures too?

That is whole heap of grey area they are playing with there.

no icons of paintings or sculptures too

Women who have default icons of art, including one of Mary feeding Jesus have been banned. LJ says the icons are fine as long as they're not the default.

Again with the edits.

Supposedly the guy who started it did it as a joke, closed out his complaints, but another community [link] heard about it and took up the torch, so to speak.

Okay. Did they do that in response to people saying 'well if you ban that, you have to ban this'? Because that would be really digging themselves a hole.

Oh good lord. Livejournal. Jeesh.

I have nothing really to say about it, I'm just exasperated.

JZ, I'm very pleased that you can get Doppler on demand. How reassuring!

I love that your cupcake matches you, GC!

Dude, LJ needs to be slapped. Ridiculous.

I love that your cupcake matches you, GC!

Hee! Less fortunate is the underground pimple on my chin that also matches my outfit...

I have no clue what it's all about, really, except that people act like people everywhere, which is pretty embarrassing.

Sorry to pop in with all that.

I meant to start with hi, howaya? nice to see ya'll.

Yay for the regular dopplering for the halloweenie. It's so nice to have someone professional who understands.

{{sj}} I'm sorry. You made perfect sense. I wish I had an idea.

Lovely hair talk in here lately, makes me want hair to cut off.

Hugs and hairpats, to everyone.