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)
If you mean why breast feeding is such a hot-topic issue, then I don't really know.
Count me as one who has no problems with it.
But if you wanna go militant (as those in these pictures) then I will join in the howls of laughter at them.
Other than that, I just don't have much of an opinon.
LOL! Heaven help you seeing an errant nipple before it gets hidden by a baby's head! Though it's beyond me why a nice libertarian atheist boy like you should be all bent out of shape by something like that. I mean, heck: isn't it a basic tenet of libertarianism that there is no "right not to be offended?"
So that's what happened to both of my youngest uncles. Both my grandmothers nursed their youngest until they were around 5. One of 'em became a drunk and a liar. The other one is a flaming liberal. He's smart though.
I think both of my grandmothers believed that they could avoid pregnancy if they continued nursing. I know that to be an old wives' tale. At least in my case.
Feeding babies is not a bad thing. I just don't understand the hang up some people have about it.
What's indecent about the women in the photos?
I don't see any skin on any of them.
If someone gets freaked out about the idea someone is nursing those children under those baggy sweatshirts... just which party is the one that's messed up in the head?
I am asking this is all seriousness, what exactly wrong with seeing the occasional nipple in the process of breastfeeding? And, if you are familiar with breastfeeding, you know that it is rare that a mother is so exposed, it is fleeting and that the situation is remedied by you looking away.
I have no problem with any of my children seeing a part of a woman's breast. They've seen mine as I breastfed their siblings. For them it isn't primarily a sexual device or toy but how a mother feeds her children. My little girl has already told me that when she gets bigger she will get "nurses" and nurse her babies. Quite a healthy outlook for a little girl in my opinion.
What consitutes discreet in your book?
Good for these moms....
Uh, a basic tenant of libertarianism is respect for free market practices. Delta has standards on this issue as it does on others. A major airline just booted some rowdy passengers over the weekend. You going to complain about that too?
Remember, it's Delta's plane. Not yours. Why can't you just respect that?
You know folks, the great irony in all of this is that Delta is a HUGE giver to breast cancer research. They even have a pink plane devoted to promoting it.
Yet here they are under fire because they asked someone to leave a plane that they felt was not obeying their rules.
Clearly, I'm a libertarian but you're an authoritarian. WHAT? A BUSINESS HAS IT'S OWN CODE OF CONDUCT THAT I DID NOT DICTATE TO THEM? OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!!!
Yeesh...
Crud! I don't have time to retake that photo.
So why is Free Republic so divided over this issue?
I think it is because of the in-your-face attitude that militant moms have regarding their "right" to offend others.
Notice I didn't say their right to breast feed. That's not the issue.
No, these momma's are setting out to acheive the shock-factor.... And it's working.
The larger point is that Delta prohibits it, not whether or not those posters think it's nudity.
Again. It. Is. Delta's. Plane.
Here's how this could've gone down folks:
"Maam, could you please cover up your breast with this little blanket while you feed your baby?"
"Of course. Sorry about that."
IT'S AS EASY AS THAT FOLKS!!!!!
Sorry, I didn't read the story. I just saw a topic discussing breasts and jumped on.
Your overheated talk about nipple-flashing tells us all we need to know about where your issues lie. You don't care about Delta; you're worried about nipples, and everything else is just a poorly blathered excuse.
Clearly, I'm a libertarian but you're an authoritarian.
Bwahahahahahaaaa!!!!!! Oooohhh!!!! Are ya gonna insult my mother next? LOL!
We had a friend whose child had leukemia, and she nursed her daughter until she was 3 1/2. The doctors encouraged her because they knew the child would benefit from the comfort and nutrition since chemo takes a heavy toll on a baby/toddler.
I don't know how discreet this mother was on that flight and nor do you. I don't like to see many here assume that anyone who nurses on a flight is an exhibitionist or that everyone who nurses an older baby is a nut.
Sometimes, as in my case, it is purely coincidence.
I've already established that it doesn't bother me. The difference between you and I is that I respect that it might bother other people (and frankly, it's no surprise to me that it would) and I certainly respect the rules on an airplane.
I can guarantee you that the captain made the final call on kicking her arse off, not the flight attendant (who seems to be the focus with the I CAN DO ANYTHING I WANT crowd here).
That's the kind of captain I want piloting my plane. Passenger not playing by the rules? Get their butt off my plane.
BRAVO!!!
I intentionally leave my barn door open
Naw - that's just the excuse to shift the blame for their own neuroses onto the mothers. If we can't see indecent behavior in pictures of a protest about breastfeeding, just how big a problem is all this boob flashing? There is no problem. There is no rampant boob flashing. That some people can get their undies in a bunch about the mere possibility a nipple might show while nursing, even though they've never actually seen it but they heard it happened once, only speaks to how goofy and neurotic people have become.
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