Discrete is fine. In my face is not.
“NO OUTSIDE FOOD.”
The cafe is privately owned, yes? It is not a park. It is not financed with taxpayer dollars. Management has the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason, or no reason at all, and to ask any person to leave at any time. There is no fundamental right to other people’s property or services, as this woman and those like her would have us believe.
It’s their shop and they should be entitled to kick out anyone they want.
This goes back to no smoking rules, no trand fats etc. In NY especially, shops and restaurants will soon have no control over their own business.
My sister used to breastfed in public all the time, but she had a towel. I saw a young mother, about 19, breastfed her child on the metro. She just lifted her shirt.
Whatever happened to just not going back into that store again? Too many people are sue happy these days. There isn’t a damned thing wrong with a mother breastfeeding her baby. In public or anywhere else.
But there should be no lawsuit.
“These types remind me of the militant femi-Nazis I deal with in ‘The People’s Republik of Madistan.’”
Femi-Nazi’s murder their children in the womb.
My son was born in Sweden and my wife breastfed him until he was more than 18 months.
There, it is just a natural thing to do. Here, everyone gawks and whispers and makes faces. No matter how covered up mother and child are.
Americans are just hung up on it. I prefer the natural, calm point of view.
As I’ve said before, in almost 15 years of nursing babies (up to age 2), I’ve never had a complaint made, never had anyone staring rudely, never heard a comment from anyone older than 3. (”What’s the baby doing?” “Eating. Go slide now.” “Okay.”)
I must just be very special ;-).
Why is nature/ nudity so offensive in the U.S.?
Not that I am for resorting to the customs of other countries, but da**.
Can we grow up already? If you don’t like it, don’t look.
Does anyone get bent out of shape to see a dog feeding her young or two cats getting it on in front of someone’s house?
In the America we live in today, the homeowner would get sued
for traumatizing young children if such a thing was witnessed by a family on an evening stroll.
Let’s all grow up and deal with the fact that nature is nature and cannot be changed.
Maybe it should be like in the movie “Me, Myself and Irene”
Just about any restaurant I know prominently displays a sign..”No Shirt, No Shoes...No service” I would say having your boobs out to feed the kid is no different than me showing up shirtless. Note both our our kids were breast fed and my wife did not ever go to a restaurant to suckle them. Breast milk can also be collected and bottle fed should feeding be necessary in a public place.
I have news for Sheri Lowe, she had better stay away from Congress Ave in Austin this Sunday. The local news is reporting that some group called "Gotopless.org" is marching up from 6th Street to the Capitol building. This is also happening in several other cities.
Owner Cathal Queally disputed Acevedo-Taylor’s account, saying the store’s general manager asked one of them if they could cover up only after two other customers complained.
“Nobody was ever asked to leave,” he said.
Agreed. There is nothing wrong with breastfeeding in public. When a baby has to be fed every two hours sometimes you can’t be at home.
I was nursing my daughter under a nursing cover at a restaurant when a man asked me to take it to the bathroom. I asked him if he would enjoy eating his dinner in the bathroom.
I can understand being uncomforable actually seeing a woman’s breast in public but being uncomfortable just KNOWING what I was doing under the nursing cover is just ridiculous.
Visitors to the cafe are greeted by a small pink sign that reads "breast-feeding welcome here" and "beautiful breast-feeding."
Given the presence of the sign, the "two other complaining customers" deserve to be tied to a bumper and dragged to the opposite coast. Nothing extreme, mind you.
Imagine having this vulgarian teaching your child.