Posted on 06/20/2005 12:19:49 PM PDT by QwertyKPH
Maybe I need a personal hardresser before I can "feel uncomfortable" when a mother is nursing a child. Then again, I can't imagine being a snotty, elite prude either.
Lots of classical art has Jesus at Mary's breast. Why are some people so offended these days?
Don't worry. This thread is sure to invite the psychopaths on FR who are "disgusted" by breast feeding, view public breastfeeding as some sort of sin (you MIGHT see flesh you know) or compare it to urination or defecation.
Idiots all.
This breastfeeding in public is a liberal pet peeve. Thye always slam anyone who might complain about breast feeding in such an open manner.
I thought this would be about the breastfeeding snobs who practically equate bottle feeding with child abuse.
The government is spending dollars on ad campaigns to tout breastfeeding. I pass a bilboard all the time that states: "Babies were born to be breastfed".
The billboard and ad campaign is paid for by our tax dollars. Why?
You beat me to it - my thots exactly.
J
I worked in daycare and we had some instances with over-zealous women who were breastfeeding. For example imagine a woman coming into a room of 4 year olds and pulling her dress top down (with nothing on underneath) sitting next to her 4-year old son who is eating a snack so that he could nurse. I still cannot get the image out of my head. It also was not the tip of the iceberg.
That's perfectly understandable. It's a natural human function, of course it makes her nervous.
What did she think, Mom was going to ask her to provide dessert? You're not actually required to look, Barbara.
I was surprised by how many people were blatantly uncomfortable when I nursed my children. I tried to be as respectful as possible for anyone that was around; but wow! At times I felt like I was doing something horrid!
Interestingly enough, fruity tooty unron reagan took the opposite view.
michelle ROCKS....great read.
I think its mostly women that have a hangup about this.
My wife nursed our 8 kids in public I joked that everyone in Cedar Rapids had seen her tits. We just laughed. It's all good and natural.
Pretty amazing being that Barbara cannot understand that the letters "R" and "L" are actually different from the letter "W".
Sorry but I feel a little weird when women are still breast feeding their children after they are 1 year old with teeth.
Yep. I have yet to see a woman blatantly baring her breasts under the auspices of feeding her child. Most people are discrete.
It is not a liberal pet peeve. It is a pet peeve of those who understand how important and natural breast feeding is. I have never and never will be mistakened for a liberal. I guess my family (all who are very conservative) are some of those breast feeding snobs. Yes babies were born to be breastfed with mother's milk not milk from a cow. My wife breast fed in the 60s when you could not even find a doctor or government agency that said you should breast feed. It is so good to have finally reached the point where it is accepted as the right and natural thing to do.
There are so many responses I could make to that.... 8>)
Sorry, it is still natural to breast feed beyond the first year or breasts would not still be producing milk! Of course women should be discreet as all of the women in my family are (except around the family).
Tell that to the baby, let me know if you have any luck. Infants are remarkably inconsiderate. (/sarcasm for the humor-impaired)
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