"Say Facebook, why do you prefer hypersexualized or even degrading posts on women and refuse those who value them?", Insists Alexandra Naoum in a video and blog post published on January 4, 2017 on the Huffington Post website *

The actress and director, who is very involved with breast cancer victims, has taken a rage against Facebook and its policy of deleting content **.

An arbitrary selection of nudity on Facebook denounced

It all starts with a picture. It shows the bust of a woman who has had a mastectomy . The removed breast is hidden, the other breast is blurred to meet the conditions of Facebook.

Shared by the director, the picture arouses the interest of many people and boosts its crowdfunding operation launched a few times ago to finance a short film about non-reconstruction decided by some women after the removal of their breast.

While Alexandra Naoum asks to sponsor this publication, Facebook refuses and will even delete it some time later.

In question: even hiding the chest, nudity is considered inappropriate.

To overcome this problem, the young woman then asks Caroline Drogo, illustrator, to create a drawing faithful to the subject of the film and acceptable by the social network. But this one is also refused.

The following drawing shows this time a young woman dressed ... And suffered the same fate as its predecessors, because of nudity called "suggested"!

It's too much for Alexandra Naoum. She who wishes to highlight the image of the woman sent back by the company did not support, rightly, to be censored unfairly.

In a video, she denounces with conviction the laxity of Facebook against offensive or violent content. Tolerance totally inconsistent with what the director has undergone.

She is raving to see online pictures of celebrities and naked models, seductive, in positions and more than suggestive outfits.

I would like to know why violence is more tolerated on Facebook than the vision of a nipple? (...) and why the body of the woman is always associated with an object of sexualization?

"The Amazon": a film to raise awareness of non-reconstructed women

At the age of 31, Alexandra Naoum embarked on a film about Elie, a thirty-year-old who had a mastectomy.

Over an estimated period of about fifteen minutes, the short film shows straight away the report that a woman "with one breast less" has with her new femininity.

The director wants to show the doubts, the fears, and the strength with which her women fight against the dictates of feminine beauty.

Credit: Facebook / Kim Kardashian West

"Facebook, you will not have my skin"

After this violent disillusionment, Alexandra Naoum is not fooled and is still looking for a way to illustrate her next film without fear of being censored again.

This story will not have made her lose her humor, however, since she ironicly drops "Facebook, you would not have my skin" followed by the hashtag #Jemenbatslesboobs.

Unfortunately, the case of the young woman is not the first of its kind.

Alexia Cassar, who specializes in 3D tattooing of nipples for women who have had a mastectomy , has had a story similar to that of the director.

At the end of 2017, drawings and snapshots of his work, published on his Instagram professional account, were deleted without explanation for several days. At the time, his hashtag #MastectomyTatoo was not enough to justify the therapeutic aim of his publications.

* https: //www.huffingtonpost.fr/alexandra-naoum/dis-facebook-pourquoi-tu-preferes-les-posts-hypersexualises-voire-degradants-sur-les-femmes-et-refuses-ceux-qui-les -valorisent_a_23323508 /

** Despite our solicitations, Facebook has not yet answered our questions on the subject.