Only three militant breastfeeding mothers showed up to forcibly nurse their babies in front of the San Fran headquarters of Six Apart, according to a member of the blogging company. The mammary mommies are mad at 6A property LiveJournal for blocking their user icons — 100x100 images of babies breastfeeding, with aereolas showing.

Yes, the pictures would be fine if nipples weren't showing. Yes, this is all rather silly. No, that didn't stop Breastfeedingisnormal.org from issuing a press release and going through with the nurse-in. So, says the 6A tipster, company members bought them lunch.

Meanwhile, the lactivists plan a "Step apart from Six Apart on 6/6/6" day, which will probably get lost tomorrow in the shuffle of the goth community's "Draw pentagrams on our wrists, post pics on LJ, and bitch about our controlling parents on 6/6/6" day. But the urgent tone — someone, somewhere, apparently called anti-breastfeeding discrimination equal to racism — is earning backlash.

Nurse-In [Breastfeedingisnormal.org]
Photo: Banned breastfeeding icons [ProMoM]

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