Nah, it’s simple respect for someone else.
Not everyone wants to see women changing diapers, nor does everyone want to see women walking around with their shirt unbuttoned to their waiste, both boobs flopping with a baby attached to one (yeah, I’ve seen this - at Target, in fact).
Every woman I know, who has breastfed (including my daughters) do so discreetly, with a blanket over their shoulder, discreetly and privately. They show the same level of discretion when they change the diapers. Whether it’s in the trunk of a car, in the women’s restroom, or in a park. Privately and discreetly.
There are no laws against breastfeeding, nor should there be. So, why the “Protest”? So a group of women can get some public ‘attention’ and proclaim that they have a right to do ‘publically’ what women have been doing privately since the dawn of civilization. It’s really nothing than a form of exhibition - as in “deriving a sexual thrill from the public exposure of body parts traditionally reserved for private and intimate moments”.
And far and away, the huge majority of women who publically breastfeed do so as you suggest, with a high degree of discretion.
It’s the painting of the vast middle with the tiny extreme that bothers me.
I daresay one sees more women showing serious cleavage in church than one sees publically breastfeeding in a month of sundays at Target. And yes, I’m sure not your church. But I think you know what I mean.
It’s amazing to me. Rarely (if ever) will the sight of cavernous cleavage start threads, but put a baby on that boob and off we go. And fashions being what they are, you see more boob with the clothes on than with the baby nursing.
Don’t get me wrong, I am a fan of discretion, but if a woman is discreetly, yet publically, breastfeeding, it likely won’t even register.