Friday, July 02, 2004

New Way to Waste Time on the Internet

Let me preface this by saying that I found this website while searching for a Reuters article on a protest by nursing mothers at a Houston area mall. A security guard at the mall noticed a group of men were ogling a woman's Janet-Jackson-naked breast as she nursed her child and tried to tell her that naked breasts in the middle of the mall might not be such a great idea, at which point the woman, obviously hopped up on the postpartum hormonal roller coaster, rallied 50 lactating women to hold a nurse-in protest at the mall. I think I may have pointed out before after a similar incident that this was an episode of "Married...With Children." There is a way to subtly tell these women that "shirt and shoes must be worn" policies also apply to nursing mothers: since they're exposing their breasts in public places where they have no reasonable legal expectation of privacy, there is nothing stopping someone from snapping digital pictures that include them nursing and posting the photos on the internet. I do not suggest Googling "lactation fetish" to find out why this could be effective method of encouraging these women to throw a scarf over their shoulder.

Anyway, that was what I was doing when I found this page, an actual part of the KHOU Channel 11 News website dedicated to a daily "Guess the 'Hairline of the Day'" contest. Yes, you read that right. An actual news station posts a famous forehead, and you guess which prominent person it belongs to.

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