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)
We are pigs, and I'm not the least bit ashamed of it. If they flop 'em out I'm looking. Oink, oink!
Now we know where the complaints came from.
I thought a visual might be in order. LOL MM
"So many ti...ti....ti...Breasts ---so little time!"
Some of the women were on tonight's news. I didn't see any "babies" hanging on the ones they showed, the "babies" in question looked like they were about three and the women could just barely lift those big old "babies" off the ground. None of my business, but the kids looked like they were old enough to wean a year ago. Asking a woman to cover her breast isn't unreasonable; but it was obvious these women had issues beyond "nursing babies".
Time to park those mammaries.
I'm completely neutral on the original story (I wasn't there) but food for thought - my youngest would NOT take a bottle EVER, not even one with breast milk in it.
She was an odd one all around - never used a pacifier, hated formula and baby food, went straight from the breast to sippy cups and solid food.
Point is though, if it had been me on that plane, I'd have had little choice but to breastfeed. However, I'd have also made sure I was covered up.
If it were truly discreet, who would notice to complain?
I'm not upset by nursing mothers, I'm bothered by nursing mothers who make a spectacle of it in public places. While some may manage to do it as discreetly as you describe, the ones I've seen have not been nearly as MODEST. I don't want to have to feel like I'm intruding on an intimate moment, or look away from flopping white flesh. We are not "pack mammals" (good lord!), nor are we living in a 3rd world hell hole, where all manner of human familiarity is the norm. Other than war refugees, or people fleeing hurricanes, most mothers can manage to schedule feedings so doing so in confined public places is not necessary.
It's one thing for mothers to feel "natural" breast feeding in public; it's another thing to have the maturity to realize that others may be less comfortable with it.
Amen, and I find the photo in the above link #7 to be disgusting (note the smirk on her face. This is the kind of stunt that is done solely for "shock value." Their mothers should have taught them some manners because I don't believe their mothers would have ever done such a thing without a blanket at the least and most probably left the room.
2 1/2 is way too old to be on breastmilk still. You can get cow's milk at the grocery store...
(Partially) bare breasts and (partially) disrobed women, while perhaps normal at the beach, Hooters, on tv, the movies, etc., are NOT the norm at restaurants, shopping malls, airplanes, city buses, etc.
Buuut, the cow can't get milk at the grocery store.
And I appreciate that.... :)
You're right. I should of said only people who have respect for themselves and others would be offended..
PS...put your own milk in the bottle when you take plane, bus, train trips and spare us.
I agree, it's just the double standard that is used.
One "baby" is eating a steak... ewww!
You know what they say? If you've seen one, you've seen 'em both.
Classic!
One more double standard among many employed in the battle of the sexes. The double standard is the humans favorite standard.
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