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Alex Dyke Breastfeeding Row: Petition Demands Radio Solent DJ Is Reinstated

Suspending BBC Breastfeeding Row DJ Alex Dyke Is 'Jeremy Clarkson All Over Again'
Sara C Nelson
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A petition to reinstate a BBC presenter who was taken off air for his controversial remarks on breastfeeding has gone live.

Radio Solent DJ Alex Dyke was suspended after a series of comments he made during a live show, in which he described breastfeeding as “unnatural” and that it put him in an “embarrassing situation.”

At time of publication, a Change.org document to bring him back had garnered 169 names.

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Alex Dyke is under fire for his comments about breastfeeding

A petition to have him removed from the airwaves gained more than 11,000 signatures. A rash of complaints were also left on the BBC Radio Solent Facebook page.

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Set up by Steve Rice, the full unedited text of Bring Back Alex Dyke states:

BBC Radio Solent Shock Jockey and DJ Alex Dyke really does push the boundaries and can easily get under your skin with the topics and subjects he brings up in his mid-morning show, he can divide the Solent or have the whole Solent against him.

Alex is a great guy, a nice guy, though hard to see most of the time. Alex and his show just want to provoke a reaction to get the south talking, there are people in the Solent region that can't stand him but still phone in and rant at him.

If you are an Alex fan you will know how he does his shows and why he does what he does to try and provoke you, if no one on the radio can speak their mind then what's the point in having a discussion show?

The BBC has become to politically correct and don't like anyone who speaks out side of their DO NOT List, it feels like Jeremy Clarkson all over again.

Former Top Gear host Clarkson was famously sacked by the broadcaster after allegedly assaulting producer Oisin Tymon.

Last week a BBC spokesman told Huffington Post UK: “Following unacceptable comments made on air yesterday Alex Dyke been suspended pending an investigation, so he will not be on air tomorrow.”

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For his part, Dyke, who also stated: "My point was fat chavvy mums with their boobs out on buses isn't a good look. A classy, discrete mum is fine," is retweeting messages of support following his suspension…

Breastfeeding Photos
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Ashlee Wells Jacksons' "4th Trimester Bodies Project" embraces the changes brought to women’s bodies by motherhood. Above, is a photo of herself and her baby.

Says Jackson: "I see beautiful, inspiring, real women on a daily basis who struggle with their body image because they don’t feel they measure up with who the media tells them to be... So much more needs to be done in our society to embrace body positivity and normalize breastfeeding." (credit:Ashlee Wells Jackson )
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In the September 2014 issue of Glamour magazine, actress Olivia Wilde said: "Breastfeeding is the most natural thing. I don’t know, now it feels like Otis should always be on my breast."
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Read more from HuffPost blogger Sandy Roffey, pictured above. (credit:Sandy Roffey)
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Photographer Jade Beall takes portraits, like this one, that celebrate moms' bodies for her project, "A Beautiful Body."
via A Beautiful Body Book Project (credit:Jade Beall)
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In 2012, singer P!nk shared this gorgeous photo of herself nursing baby Willow Sage on Instagram and Twitter. (credit:Pink/Instagram)
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Read more from HuffPost blogger Molly Shalz, pictured above. (credit:Molly Shalz)
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In 2014, singer Gwen Stefani posted a beautiful Instagram photo of herself feeding her son Apollo in Switzerland. (credit:Gwen Stefani/Instagram)
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Russian model Natalia Vodianova debuted her son Maxim to the world with this stunning breastfeeding photo in June 2014. (credit:Natalia Vodianova/Instagram)
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This photo is from Vanessa Simmons' Normalize Breastfeeding campaign. Says Simmons: "If [women] read other stories, then it becomes more normal like, 'Oh, I'm going through that exact same thing.' Or, 'My baby's screaming their head off at six weeks and I can't figure out why,'... Sharing those stories enables women to be able to connect." Read more about Normalize Breastfeeding here.
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Read more from HuffPost blogger Caurie Putnam, pictured above.
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This photo is from Leilani Rogers' Public Breastfeeding Awareness Project. Read more about it here.
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This image is also from Leilani Rogers' Public Breastfeeding Awareness Project. Read more about it here.
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This picture is from HuffPost blogger Jillayna Adamson' "Breastfeeding is Beautiful" series. See more images, and read about it here.
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Read more from HuffPost blogger Kate Fridkis, pictured above. (credit:Kate Fridkis)
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HuffPost blogger Jamie Davis Smith wrote about her difficulty breastfeeding her first child, and what the experience was like. Read her blog post here.
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Read more from HuffPost parents blogger Amy Wruble, pictured above.
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In a blog post where this image was featured, author Mama Bean writes, "We are continually sold The Ideal; the picture-perfect, fully-clothed, fully made-up portrait of Motherhood... And yet in the real world, motherhood takes a far more literal shape; a far more physical form. It may well be slim, trim and toned... just as it may be rounded, softened and stretched. And yet, this second and more common reality is hidden and censored by default, as if motherhood is somehow something to shelter from."

Read the full post here. (credit:Paulina Splechta Photography)
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