Breastfeed your child on Facebook, even in a private account only friends can see, and Facebook will frown upon you. That's what happened to Heather Farley, who was told to remove a photo she'd posted of herself. She wrote and asked why, and upon receiving nothing back she posted another, only to be told to lose it or lose her account entirely.

This has resulted in some bad publicity for Facebook and a new group, "Hey Facebook, Breastfeeding in Public is not Obscene" which quickly grew to over 90,000 members, 11,000 comments, and over 3,000 breastfeeding photos (along with paintings of Madonna and Child, and a few Hooters pics that snuck in there). In the face of this public outcry and public picketing, will Facebook change its TOS to accommodate such images, which it says violates their no-aureole policy?

Probably not. (Although shouldn't that mean that BF pictures that are aureoleless are OK?) But as long as we're removing images from Facebook that are patently offensive to the eye, I'd like to suggest they take care of the following:

– Guys with hairy backs, wearing thongs.

– Any "cute dog" picture, especially involving costumes, where the poor animal is clearly begging for death's sweet release.

– Women with hairy backs, wearing thongs.

– Photoshopped images of Sarah Palin. That ship has sailed, my friend.

– Pictures of injuries, abcesses, running sores, open wounds, or gangrenous feet posted with a "hey, check this out" message.

– Dangerously ugly people. You know who you are.

– Profile pics cranked out by the latest make-your-own-avatar fad in the forms of anime characters, elves, M&Ms, vampires, or rotting pirates that look just like the other 3,000,000 avatars that everyone else made.

– Pictures of drunken hijinks, unless the person involved is attractive enough to overcome the stigma of red eyes, slack jaws, goofy grins, and dried vomit. Very few people are.

– Any vacation pics where the person in frame is cleverly positioned so that it appears he or she is holding up a massive monument. Honestly, we're all rooting for the monument to fall and crush you. Seriously.

– Any profile photo made "artsy" by the application of a single, apparently random Photoshop filter.

– Any picture of a person with a design shaved into their hair, at any location.

– Pictures of your adorable children doing something that would get a grownup put in prison.

– Any topless man boasting more than a B cup.

So, Facebook, as long as you're being arbiters of good taste, let's get on these, OK? Any one of them — or, shudder, any combination — is far more offensive to me than an infant suckling at a mother's breast.

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