Posted on 11/21/2006 12:07:21 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
Protesting mothers breastfeed their babies at Washington DC's Ronald Reagan National Airport in front of the Delta Airlines ticket counter as part of a nation-wide protest after a woman was kicked off a Delta airplane by a flight attendant for nursing her child.(AFP/Paul J. Richards)
Mothers Danielle Shield (L) and Alison Yaker (R) read a book about breastfeeding with their children near the Delta Airlines counter at Logan Airport in Boston, Massachusetts November 21, 2006 as part of a national 'Nurse-In' protest in support of women's right to breastfeed in public. On October 13, 2006 Emily Gillette was removed from a Delta/Freedom Air flight out of Burlington, Vermont after she refused to cover her baby with a blanket while breastfeeding on the plane before take-off. REUTERS/Brian Snyder (UNITED STATES)
Danielle Mountford, left, of Woodstock, Conn., breast feeds her daughter, Alexa Ross, 2 1/2, as Susan Parker, right, of Glastonbury, Conn., holds her daughter Anna, at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Conn., Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2006. Nursing mothers staged 'nurse-in' protests Tuesday to take up the cause of a woman ordered off a plane for breast-feeding her daughter too openly. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
I just got back from Hawaii, so my brain read that as "na omee". I don't know what an omi is, but na omi would mean that there's more than one of them.
No one's treating breast feeding with contempt, just mothers' failure to do it discreetly. Why does my 8 year old kid have to sit in a bus, restaurant, or plane with some 35 year old's teet stuck in her face?
Come on!
Their babies were hungry ?
Just guessing ...
People seem to forget what the breast was designed for.
It was funny ten years ago on "Married With Childen."
I'm more disturbed by folks who see it as bad to see or even have a hit of seeing a woman feeding her child.
But if she's in a string bikini, or a wet Tshirt or a cheerleader...GREAT!
That bothers me to no end.
I travel on commercial aircraft frequently, for business.
I've seen my fair share of male "flight attendants".
I strongly suspect that most of them are disinclined to ogle female breasts. Or female hips. Or female faces. Or female anything.
I strongly suspect that most of them are inclined to refer to parents derisively as "breeders".
Danielle Mountford: Fat mother, fat baby.
Thanks,
that was my impression also :)
"She said...
...she was seated by the window in the next-to-last row,
...her husband was seated between her and the aisle
...and no part of her breast was showing." [line breaks mine]
Having done this with my children many, many times myself, I don't doubt this is accurate.
You people who accuse nursing moms of being "exhibitionists," do you realize how sick that is?
The last thing on the minds of 99.99999% of nursing moms is making a display of themselves. They're thinking about their babies, not about dirty-minded strangers.
Sounds like a most sensible remark! Thats the way it used to be done!
"Why does my 8 year old kid have to sit in a bus, restaurant, or plane with some 35 year old's teet stuck in her face?"
Get a grip drama queen.
Breastfeeding women dont want to show their boob any more than
you want your kid to see it.
wth are you talking about?
That's just it!
It wasn't until recently, in our twisted world that a woman feeding her baby was viewed as a bad thing.
60 years ago, women did it all over and all the time. And so discretely that most folks didn't know it....but if they did, no biggie.
Because that is what mothers did and how children fed.
"Prudes"?? I think prude is short for prudent which means "wise". I hope you think of me as a prude.
"Look at me! I'm special!"
She was being extremely discrete.
Nothing was showing. She was in the next to the last row next to a window with her husband on the aisle.
The 'male' flight attendant handed her an airline blanket saying "I'M offended".
I woulda stuck that blanket where the sun didn't shine.
I'm old and ugly, so I don't worry about them ogling me.
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