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Breast-feeding mom demands apology for indecent exposure ticket
GJsentinel ^ | July 28, 2005 - 11:33 p.m

Posted on 07/30/2005 8:15:50 AM PDT by Asphalt

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To: Dante3

I was referring to Dante's Inferno.


341 posted on 07/30/2005 5:20:42 PM PDT by sportutegrl (People who say, "All I know is . . ." really mean, "All I want you to focus on is . . .")
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To: sfimom

Settle down, Beavis.

I'm not after taking away your "right" to anything.

I AM after you not whipping out your snoobage in public and attaching your three-year-old.

(Not that you'd do such a thing.)


342 posted on 07/30/2005 5:22:12 PM PDT by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: sfimom

God bless you.


343 posted on 07/30/2005 5:23:42 PM PDT by after dark
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To: Xenalyte

I DO nurse in public. I am however one of those that practice modesty. As I mentioned in a previous post I walked right through the local grocery store while nursing and no one knew what I was doing. Forgive me if I took your post wrong but nursing infants and schedules do not work well together. It is impossible to always predict when an infant is going to want to nurse and it is not always possible to leave. This entire thread has me a bit upset that some can be so callous about an infant's need/right to eat when and where they need to.


344 posted on 07/30/2005 5:26:30 PM PDT by sfimom ('Mommy why did they kill her cause she couldn't talk?' (my daughter age8))
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To: sfimom

Oddly enough, my nursing sister says the only way she can handle the three kids is to maintain the schedule.

But as I said several times upthread, if you are doing it discreetly enough, by definition I won't notice you doing it.


345 posted on 07/30/2005 5:27:45 PM PDT by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: RGSpincich
I see your mommy spiked your sippy cup again. Or do you still take it like this one year old?

I always enjoy a sophisticated intellectual exchange.
I am certainly glad I came back to snatch this winner.

I am underwhelmed.

346 posted on 07/30/2005 5:28:49 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Liberal level playing field: If the Islamics win we are their slaves..if we win they are our equals.)
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To: Xenalyte

"Snoobage"?


347 posted on 07/30/2005 5:29:58 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Standing athwart history, shouting, "Turn those lights off! You think electricity grows on trees?")
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To: Xenalyte

Any attempt to regulate nursing babies privately or publicly deserves scorn.You don't like snoobage. Got news for you , babies pull those modesty blankets down.On subject of manners most of you prudes would never notice nursing babies if you would just stop staring at people.


348 posted on 07/30/2005 5:34:01 PM PDT by after dark
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To: after dark

ROFL!! (the rest of this post has been self censored)


349 posted on 07/30/2005 5:36:42 PM PDT by sfimom ('Mommy why did they kill her cause she couldn't talk?' (my daughter age8))
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Re: Class

And parents who would rather shuffle off the kids to daycare and a nanny, than parent themselves?
350 posted on 07/30/2005 5:37:40 PM PDT by endthematrix ("an ominous vacancy"...I mean, JOHN ROBERTS now fills this space!)
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To: spunkets

Yes, people eat in public. But they don't butcher the cow that they eat on the sidewalk. Is that a better example? I don't mind seeing a guy enjoying his hamburger while he waits for the bus, but if he is slaughtering the chicken, that is a different matter.


351 posted on 07/30/2005 6:04:31 PM PDT by Asphalt (Join my NFL ping list! FReepmail me| The best things in life aren't things)
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To: Asphalt

You're floating off into the Ether of Incoherence. Long threads have a problem with that.


352 posted on 07/30/2005 6:08:02 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Standing athwart history, shouting, "Turn those lights off! You think electricity grows on trees?")
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To: Tax-chick

A morning talk-show host here calls hoots "snoobage."

I play an online game called "City of Heroes," and the character I'm building up right now (who incidentally has a huge rack) is called Major Snoobage.


353 posted on 07/30/2005 6:09:38 PM PDT by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: Xenalyte

LOL - that's a keeper. "Careful with the snoobage - those things are attached, you know!"


354 posted on 07/30/2005 6:10:41 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Standing athwart history, shouting, "Turn those lights off! You think electricity grows on trees?")
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To: Tax-chick

It provides a handy synonym. Plus, it's just fun to say!

As a mass noun, it can't be beat. ;)


355 posted on 07/30/2005 6:12:16 PM PDT by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: Xenalyte

It pays to increase your word power!


356 posted on 07/30/2005 6:13:33 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Standing athwart history, shouting, "Turn those lights off! You think electricity grows on trees?")
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To: Asphalt; Ghost of Philip Marlowe; Tax-chick; Houmatt; ExitPurgamentum
Veteran of the "pub" breastfeeding debates, here. First off; there's discrete breastfeeding, and then there's NON-discrete breastfeeding. These arguments always get twisted up in these particular threads on FR.

Second, if I'm not mistaken: AUGUST IS NATIONAL BREASTFEEDING MONTH.

Third, I'm pro-breastfeeding; I'm also from an area of the country where exhibitionist "political statement" breastfeeding is rather common. It's obnoxious. Anyway; other factoids.

Fourth, having studied these "pub breastfeeding" debates here on the forum, new alliances and new dislikes will begin. Par usual.

This CO woman, if she was discrete? I feel badly for the person who arrested her for being overlyzealous. Breastfeeding is a good thing; but nudity exhibitionism is not. And I don't give a rats whether anyone wants to call breasts boobs or "feeding apparatus".

The injunction to simply "look away" if a mother is breastfeeding in public, is never carefully discussed: Is the mother brazenly "hanging out"? Or being as discrete as possible?

357 posted on 07/30/2005 6:14:47 PM PDT by Alia
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To: Tax-chick

Perhaps I didn't state that clearly. A person said peeing was not comparable to eating. I am saying that comparing a guy sitting on a bench eating a burger is nothing like a mom nursing a kid.

Considering most ladies have the courtesy to be discreet I generally have no problem. It's the one percent that, for whatever reason, either have no courtesy, or have some ulterior motive and are quite happy to flash all the people around them.

Really this whole thread is a big fuss over nothing. If a woman nurses a kid off to the side and covers up with a blanket/towel/etc then anyone who has a problem or is offended has serious issued.

On the flip side, most people also don't appreciate being flashed by a nursing mom. Mothers who can't or won't be modest shouldn't be allowed to flaunt themselves in public. People that want that belong in strip clubs, not beaches or other public places.

In this particular case, the people were stupid to ticket her, and the mom was even stupider to try to demand an apology.


358 posted on 07/30/2005 6:17:15 PM PDT by Asphalt (Join my NFL ping list! FReepmail me| The best things in life aren't things)
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To: Tax-chick

Oh, THAT takes me back!


359 posted on 07/30/2005 6:19:26 PM PDT by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: Asphalt

This analogy does not work. When I nurse no one sees the milk or how it is formed.At most you would see my baby enjoy a well deserved meal.You claim not to be offended by a someone enjoying a good meal.I on the other hand despise people who stare at me as I eat.


360 posted on 07/30/2005 6:19:43 PM PDT by after dark
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