Seriously, Myspace?!?

I have a Myspace account. I know, I know - but let's not stone me just yet, I have to bitch about the site first.

This week (on Wednesday) I had to do a Glucose Challenge Test. Basically, everyone who is pregnant has to do this test to check for gestational diabetes indicators, and the test sucks my big toe in a big way. Oh, it's not as bad as the Glucose Tolerance Test (which involves hours of fasting and copious amounts of blood drawing), but it still sucks nontheless. You have to drink a bottle of 50 grams of glucose (mine was fruit punch flavored - aka fruity cough syrup) in a 5-minute window and then get your blood drawn exactly one hour later. It sucks. (This is one of those nasty little secrets other women who've been pregnant don't tell you because if they spilled all the possible horrid little 'side effects', nobody would EVER get prengnan. Such as the awful feet growing secret. Suffice it to say I haven't yet had to buy bigger shoes, and if I do? Well, if I do end up having to do that, that sound you'll hear will be me NEVER getting over it because of losing my fabulous shoe wardrobe. Let's not talk about it an jinx me, okay?)

Well, as I was drinking the glucose/cough syrup drink, I took pictures of it on my cell phone, memorializing my experience for the benefit of my friends. Two of the pictures were of the glucose bottle itself - one full and one tipped over empty after I'd finished it (I survived and took no prisoners, it had to be duly noted). I posted these pics, along with ones of my face expressing various stages of extreme displeasure, on my Myspace page.

Well, apparently the Big Brother of Myspace deemed these pictures to be inappropriate and deleted them, sending me a message that "we had to remove the image (or images) from your account because they violated our Terms of Use...our site is for people as young as 14, so we can'thave certain kinds of pics (nude/sexually explicit, violence, material protected by copyright)..."

REALLY?!? This, from the website that launched Miss Underwear-is-my-wardorbe-Tila-Tequila's "career"?!?

I mean, if you're going to limit my free speech, at least do it across the board, no? I am nothing if not an appreciator of equality. I could almost see if they're going to try and make a copyright infringement argument, but it wouldn't hold much water. Sigh. I just think this is entirely ridiculous, so I lodged a complaint. If anything, those pictures are educational, as they are showing what you'll have to go through if you don't use adequate birth control. ... Which now has me realizing that perhaps our current anti-choices administration was behind this. Hmmm.

Oh, I found out this morning that I passed the test (a big HELL to the YAH). I hate having test performance anxiety, so it's nice that part is done and I don't have to do the extended test.