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.
I was referring to Dante's Inferno.
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.)
God bless you.
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.
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.
I always enjoy a sophisticated intellectual exchange.
I am certainly glad I came back to snatch this winner.
I am underwhelmed.
"Snoobage"?
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.
ROFL!! (the rest of this post has been self censored)
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.
You're floating off into the Ether of Incoherence. Long threads have a problem with that.
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.
LOL - that's a keeper. "Careful with the snoobage - those things are attached, you know!"
It provides a handy synonym. Plus, it's just fun to say!
As a mass noun, it can't be beat. ;)
It pays to increase your word power!
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?
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.
Oh, THAT takes me back!
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.
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