[Mrs. Don-o]

Dear Mr. Ghost,

Your post #272 is a very fine post: reasonable, well-expressed, and I find little or nothing in it to disagree with.

My only eyebrow twitch came from this: "Second, if you support breastfeeding with no regard to modesty...

I haven't analyzed each and every one of the at-present 289 posts on this thread, although I've at least scanned 100% of them; and I haven't seen ANYBODY who "supports breastfeeding with no regard to modesty."

So I was, I confess, rather stunned by the vehemence of some of the attacks on that -- uh, straw-mama? I appreciate your argument in #272 against the let-it-all-hang-out position; but I was taken aback by the rather brutal language of some folks' posts, which seemed weirdly unrelated both to the original article, and to the wholesome pro-modest-breastfeeding comments presented on this thread.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Thanks, Mrs. Don-o.

I guess I assumed everyone in other cities and large towns around the country have experienced what I have here in Seattle.

It is an aggressive, whip-it-out anywhere, anytime attitude. If you don't like it, you can leave. Not all, of course, but there is definitely a strong movement afoot here.

If you dare to raise an eyebrow, they attack you with that, "What? You have a problem with it?"

I suppose those who are defending public breastfeeding have only seen the non-aggressive form of it. I'm surprised that they find it hard to believe that there are those who would use it as a socio-political issue. That is what the Left does. And it's only a matter of time before women who have no children say, "Well, if they can expose themselves while breastfeeding, you can't discriminate against me simply because I'm not a mother."