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Texas Roadhouse apologizes for asking breastfeeding mother to cover up
Fox News ^ | November 18, 2018 | Alexandra Deabler

Posted on 11/18/2018 8:58:07 AM PST by conservative98

A Texas Roadhouse restaurant in Louisville, Ky., has apologized to a mother who was asked by a manager to cover up while she was breastfeeding her seven-week-old daughter.

Sadie Durbin began nursing her infant daughter while she was dining at the American chain restaurant with her family, she wrote in a now-viral Facebook post, when a manager came over and told her to cover up.

“David Mitchell, a manager at the Texas Roadhouse on Shelbyville Road, brought me a napkin and tried lying it over my 7 week old nursing infant's face as he explained that he had another patron complain and that he really needed me to cover up,” Durbin wrote.

“I politely explained to him it is against the law for him to ask me to cover up and that I was well within my rights to feed my baby,” she continued.

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“David Mitchell, a manager at the Texas Roadhouse on Shelbyville Road, brought me a napkin and tried lying it over my 7 week old nursing infant's face as he explained that he had another patron complain and that he really needed me to cover up,” Durbin wrote.

“I politely explained to him it is against the law for him to ask me to cover up and that I was well within my rights to feed my baby,” she continued.

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To: conservative98

First time I ever saw a woman breastfeeding, it was in a courthouse and she was a good lookin momma.

I’ve been hooked ever since.


161 posted on 11/18/2018 2:56:31 PM PST by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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“I’m old-fashioned so I say leave and use the restroom”

...so you would take an infant into a public toilet and feed it? That is as insane as whipping out your boob and feeding it in public! 

...but having spent a number of my formative years in third world countries in Southeast Asia I’ve seen a lot of breastfeeding in public and it really doesn’t bother me. In fact, I find it kind of natural and it’s kind of like going to a nude beach on Martinique, after 10 minutes it doesn’t bother - you get over it...


162 posted on 11/18/2018 2:56:53 PM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: LanaTurnerOverdrive
Short answer? She has the legal right to breastfeed in public. You do NOT have the legal right to stroll through life unoffended.

Of everyone involved, Miss Floppyboobs was the most offended.

163 posted on 11/18/2018 3:04:11 PM PST by gogeo (The Repubs may not always deserve to win, but the RATs always deserve to lose.)
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To: Trailerpark Badass
You apparently, are enamored of stone-age Amazonians and new guineans, with top less women wandering around with toddlers latched on to their floppy breasts.

Shades of National Geographic.

164 posted on 11/18/2018 3:05:57 PM PST by gogeo (The Repubs may not always deserve to win, but the RATs always deserve to lose.)
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To: Trailerpark Badass
I Feeding a baby from a bottle is rightly objectionable? Care to explain why?

No. The superiority of breastfeeding is universally understood in our society. I’m not going to justify “the law of identity” to someone emotionally invested in denying it.

Mocking your sophistry is quite sufficient for me.

165 posted on 11/18/2018 3:08:53 PM PST by papertyger (Trump, A president so great, that Democrats who said they would leave America if he won, stayed!)
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To: Leep

Agreed. Or letting one go (a fart) is a normal bodily function that probably shouldn’t be done at the dinner table too.

Just sayin...


166 posted on 11/18/2018 3:11:03 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: rlmorel

You are a better person than I am.


167 posted on 11/18/2018 3:33:34 PM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: lee martell

"He said ‘Titular’!!"



"Next, they'll be telling Trump to hide his twitters & his tweets...heh heh..."

168 posted on 11/18/2018 3:41:52 PM PST by Songcraft
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To: Clutch Martin

Been to and participated at the nude beach in Martinique. But that’s not a family restaurant. How’s the husband feel about his wife naked from waist up at table. You have the right good it doesn’t mean one can not be a wee bit considerate of others


169 posted on 11/18/2018 3:49:21 PM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: conservative98

Either a tit is a private part or it is not.
If it isn’t, then the guy who touches it is doing nothing worse than touching your shoulder.
If it is, then you have to cover it, babe.


170 posted on 11/18/2018 4:13:18 PM PST by I want the USA back (It's Ok To Be White. White Lives Matter. White Guilt is Socially Constructed)
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To: conservative98

One more stop on the train ride to being a Third World country.


171 posted on 11/18/2018 5:08:12 PM PST by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: gogeo

It actually is life, from one generation to the other. However aspects of it are personal....breast feeding is one of them that should not be “exhibited” to an uninterested audience.

As I see it there are no boundaries with the generation today...everything is about “exhibitionism’ today and every part of their life. They don’t get it that nobody’s interested.


172 posted on 11/18/2018 5:28:10 PM PST by caww
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To: cherry

and using the bottle pretty much destroys the mother/baby bond that is supposed to be the main reason to encourage nursing a young baby....


It’s A reason, and a good reason, but not the main reason.

maybe men can stop scratching their privates in public and “adjusting” themselves in public......geesh…


Especially if they keep doing it continuously for 5-15 minutes. Moreso if they are doing it above the table during meal-time.


173 posted on 11/18/2018 5:41:09 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: JayGalt

I think having to go to the restroom is unreasonable. Restrooms stink, there are often chemicals in the air and you wouldn’t want to be in their 20 minutes with a young baby.


yep.

On the other hand, many women’s restrooms have waiting areas outside. If those can’t be kept clean and odorless, then it’s too much to ask someone remain there.


174 posted on 11/18/2018 5:46:25 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: rlmorel

It seems lost on many here but most women I’ve known were aroused through their breasts

Second only to the man in the boat sensitivity wise though nipple sensitivity fades some after multiple child births

Breasts have to be caressed not just ogled at or milked

One man’s opinion

I have witnessed a woman O simply through breast stimulation in my long years

This notion by some here....not you....that breasts are just humanoid udders is weird

Does this make me parochial..lol


175 posted on 11/18/2018 5:47:00 PM PST by wardaddy (I don’t care that you’re not a racist......when the shooting starts it won’t matter what yo)
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To: gcparent

I had a bad thing happen to me as a young kid. I carried it around with me for a long time, but when I got a chance to see the person face to face again some 30 years later on the other side of the world...well...I couldn’t feel hate for him. He was pathetic and wretched, and all I could think was that I was glad I wasn’t him.

I found the concept of giving up the grudge is liberating in a way few things are. And so it was with my sister.

And I am not much of a Christian, but...I want to be. And nothing I have done in my life has better made me understand what it is I strive to be a Christian than those two things. There is something to the power of forgiveness.


176 posted on 11/18/2018 7:56:49 PM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: wardaddy

Put very realistically. If that makes you parochial for that view, then you have a lot of company.

It is a fine thing to appreciate the beauty of a woman in her entirety without making her an object of coarse and simple lust...it is why we strive to be men, and not simply fall to being beasts.


177 posted on 11/18/2018 8:03:56 PM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: papertyger

Dumbass. No one is suggesting she must ONLY feed from a bottle, except you.


178 posted on 11/20/2018 8:37:30 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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