Posted on 07/30/2005 8:15:50 AM PDT by Asphalt
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Never mind officials voiding a $50 ticket for indecent exposure, or an explanation from county officials that a ranger who issued the citation to the breast-feeding mother was inexperienced.
Dorian Ryan said she wants an apology for what she called a "humiliating and degrading" experience.
"This isn't right. Women shouldn't be harassed for breast-feeding their children," Dorian Ryan said.
Colorado lawmakers agree. A law passed last year gives women the right to breast feed anywhere she's allowed to be in public.
Ryan, 43, was ticketed for indecent exposure July 14 when she breast fed her son at the Carter Lake swim beach in Larimer County. She was shielded from view by two umbrellas and a towel.
An inexperienced park ranger mistakenly issued the ticket, said Dan Rieves, manager of the Blue Mountain District, which oversees the beach. Park officials have voided the ticket.
Rieves, who has been in contact with Ryan, said a written apology would be sent Friday.
Bravo! Only I think you reversed the cause and effect: first, a certain generation became selfish and then the move towards a non-parent, non-breastfeeeding, non-marriage --- non everything --- occurred.
That generation was what their offspring now calls the "Greatest Generation." These are the people who grew up and went through the Great Depression, which developed an understandable longing for material things they did not have. The same people fought in WWII and, having come back victorious, were not going to listen to anybody objecting to their choices: they were heros, they saved the world, and nobody was going to question their choices.
And nobody did. Nobody questioned when they moved out of the cities into the 'burbs in the 1950s. Nobody questioned when homeownership was declared American Dream (what an insult: from Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death to... two bedrooms in the suburbs; but nobody questioned poor heroes who had it hard and DESERVE all the material possessions they could get their hands on). Nobody questioned when they started to ship their elderly parents (who tended to stay beind in the cities) to nursing homes: poor heroes that saved us from fascism simply could not find time, for the first time in American history, for their parents; and they just did not have room, you see, in the suburban homes.
Naturally, lacking a moral compass themselves, members of the "Greatest" generation raised the most egotistic and amoral (and often immoral) offspring. That offspring exploded in the '60 with mass destruction of America stood for: education, marriage, child-rearing,patriotism, even basic respect to the public...
Yes, that generation fought in the war. So did our heroes of the Revolutionary War and WWI but they did not, upon coming back, destroyed our culture. The "Greatest" generation has raised the most egotistic children America has ever had. Together, in two generations, they destroyed thevery foundations of American culture.
Are you surprised at the reaction to breastfeeding? The me-centered, infantile culture is all around us, Witness grey-haired Jay Leno telling penis jokes every night --- jokes that boys yused to stop telling beyond middle school. Witness infantile preoccupation with bodily functions --- on TV, in magazines, in the jokes people tell each other.
Look at the members of this board, self-proclaimed conservatives. Look at the reaction to this story. Most of the male posters, apparently focused on touching them so much, as Jay Lenos urge them every day, that they forgot what woman's breasts are for. It is absolutely ridiculous that in this culture, G-d's miracle of birth and motherhood is found offensive --- by supposedly conservative FReepers no less.
Regards,
EP
I soon found out why: As I got close enough, I found a woman sitting there with her top and bra undone, breasts completely exposed, nursing a girl no younger than 3.
Needless to say, I was completely disgusted by the sight. It was inappropriate, to say the least.
Any questions?
In the context of which I have already described herein, the answer is yes.
Headline should read:
"Exhibitionist Finds Way to Remain in the Spotlight"
I'm sorry that any woman has ever had an unpleasant experience of any sort while tending to the needs of her child in precisely the way The Good Lord intended.
This whole so-called "controversy" is completely lost on me, I'll confess.
Never in a million years would I have ever imagined that a woman would catch grief for nursing anywhere or anytime her baby "requests" it.
After all, I can confidently say from my own experience with infants that they're not too keen on the concept of "Not now - later."
That just doesn't impress them in a positive manner...
I personally have never had a bad experience. I remember one time I was standing in the checkout line at the local grocery store nursing a week old infant. I had a shaawl over my shoulder and no one even knew what I was doing! The cashier thought I had hurt my arm and when I elplained that I was nursing a baby she said 'Good for you!" and wanted to see the baby even while she was still nursing. At least some people still realize that nursing is a totally natural way to nourish and nurture one's child.
"Geez, this thing has been blown all out of proportion or perspective!"
Some people just have these "cultural" hangups...All I can say.."What a bunch of boobs!"
I'm guessing that the 43 year old woman has some awfully ugly breasts.
But it's got one of those proverbial "night and day," "apples and oranges" problems, however.
No kewpie doll, no cigar, and not even a "k" for close, I'm afraid.
I have a hard time believing that God intended for so-called men to "do" each other at all, let alone in a public venue.
But such is definitely not the case with breastfeeding, since women did not receive such anatomical wonders simply to make me break out in thigh sweats; they're meant from the start (the VERY start) for providing nourishment to infants. Any other attributes that may have been ascribed to breasts over the ages are merely superfluous to their intended function and use.
But. Not. In. Public.
Get it?
The reporter was there? How convenient.
It's really none of your business. It is recommended to nurse a MINIMUM of a year.
So do you suggest that women keep themselves and their infants in seclusion until they are weaned? You cannot always predict when a child is going to get hungry. Nurse them in bathroom stalls? Try taking your meals in the bathroom. Do you have more of a right to eat in public than a helpless infant? You as an adult can wait. They can't.
You are dead wrong. What about the overbearing official who did this? That the city cancelled the ticket gives no confidence that the officer who did it is aware he did something wrong, and you are stretching to think that the bureaucracy responded competently by making his error known to him. Making him write an apology may seem like grade-school punishment, but it makes him aware that he did something wrong without having to waste "precious legal resources" whatever that laghable phrase means.
I think they're the same people who convinced John Ashcroft to cover the statue of Justice because one of her bronze breasts were exposed.
Well, I guess we all have no choice but to sue when wronged , however slightly, in order to ensure that the perp experiences "meaningful" consequences.
>>>>"knowingly (exposing) one's genitals in a public place."
1 entry found for genitals.
Main Entry: family jewels
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: male testicles
Synonyms: ballocks, balls, cullions, gonads, male genitalia, male genitals, male sex organ, nuts, rocks, testes, testicles
Source: Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.1.1)
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In the context of which I have already described herein, the answer is yes.
You are either a troll or one seriously sick jackwit if you think breastfeeding a child is sexual in nature.
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