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)
"My penis is made for some things too. Urination and procreation. Doesn't mean I need to flash it at you."
Ding ding ding! You win the prize for being the stupidest person on the face of the earth.
Guys...
A woman performing a natural act with her baby, it's a tit GET OVER IT just move along folks, this is so not worth arguing about.
And how is sitting in the back row, next the window with your husband sitting next to you not being discreet?
Is this the first time you've been on one of these breastfeeding threads? It's an eye-opener, isn't it?
Thank you!!!
LOL! Now that you mention it, everyone born starts out as a sucker. Least wise until they get enough teeth to eat meat and start practicing on mommies nipple.
It's a strange world. The more breast exposure the better seems just fine, unless a baby is nursing it.
So you equate breastfeeding with urinating? Wow. You have problems.
Who cares? It's her kid.
There's nothing wrong with laying a light blanket across the point of action.
In a country where we show the most disgusting and bloodiest movies to our young public, where we show people in war dying, dead and mutilated, where people are not upset at pictures of our flag being burned it's hard to believe that people are so upset by the natural act of a woman breastfeeding her child. On those rare occasions when I have observed women breastfeeding their babies in public I found I was neither excited nor disgusted. Something I find personally more disgusting than women breastfeeding is the verbal garbage that comes out of people's mouths today in public.
The bottom line is this:
You're on our plane, you obey our rules or get the hell off.
I back them up 100% even tho you probably back up the execs who'll cave because they don't want the bad press.
I listen to rules on an airplane and obey what they tell me to do, even if some idiots don't (and believe me, in my years of flying I've seen many who don't).
Out..
Oh please. It's clear they backpedaled on this even by the issuer's own admission. They got some negative press and caved. Still doesn't stop the couple who refused to listen to them from being idiots nor those defending their actions any more than Jesse Jackson is an idiot for shaking down corps via race-baiting.
The flight attendant totally did his/her duty and the exec who issued that comment backed her up and it's evident their policy backed his/her up. The company did a Tour de France of backpedaling after the liberal media went nuts and ran this story five times.
Anyone who can't see that is clearly as nutty as the parents who perpetrated this on the airline. They were shaken down to stay out of the papers and out of court, plain and simple.
Seeing as the pilot of the plane recognized the flight attendant's error as soon as she made it, I'd say you're full of crap. But then, we have a whole thread of your stupid posts that testify to that fact.
..no one Ive ever seen breastfeeding flaunts it."
I'll prove you wrong in a minute- decidedly wrong.
I don't gawk, but if I wanted to, a breast feeding mom has not a complaint about it if she wants to be in the public. I have the RIGHT to gawk if I want to. That is not the point. You can't demand decency if you are not willing to be respectful to others around you. I have been there in that position. You are a man so when have you ever breastfed a baby? You have no credibility in lecturing me. How dare I? Easily I dare. You want YOUR standards honored but to hell with everyone else when the call is out for common courtesy. I did not once in any post, ever, say, that women show their breasts too much or show off their breasts, or expose themselves unreasonably. Read, instead of lecturing, you jerk.
And the stupid comment about moms who don't flaunt or exploit their breastfeeding?? Honestly.
Look at the picture at the beginning of this post. Look at it! I suppose now you're going to assert that every single baby being breastfed in that picture was hungry or needed to be soothed,,,all of them at the same time, all at once, just in time for pictures! BS!!! That picture is a photo-op and ONLY a photo op for the MOMS! ONLY A PHOTO OP! It has ZERO,,get it, ZERO to do with those children. It is all about the moms and that, THAT is exploitation, that is hypocrisy and that is what pi$$e$ me off. All the moms here screaming,,"what do you want us to do with a screaming baby????" Some moms breastfeed screaming babies and some moms breastfeed for their own agenda,,,like the ones in the photo! You cannot prove that all of those children in that photo were hungry and neededto be soothed,all at the same time. Gee, what a coincidence!!!
Those moms put those babies to the breast whether or not the babies were demanding it to prove a point!!! They used that natural, beautiful process of breastfeeding that so many here are rabid about, THEY EXPLOIT it for the photo. Don't pull that motherhood, sainthood, moms do no wrong BS with me. I am a mom of 4 children and you haven't breastfed a baby in your life. So now, you want to tell me that all those babies were hungry and crying and fussy all at the very same time and it happened to be during the "Nurse In" and it wasn't in any way directed, SET UP, or exploited by the moms in that picture.
Whether the issue is breastfeeding, saying Islamic prayers, swearing, acting intoxicated, whatever,
if a flight attendant says to stand on your head, you, by law, are obligated to comply. Period. If you do not, you are subject to being removed from the flight. Period. Don't like that? Don't fly commercial. The lady on the flight, she did the right thing by leaving the flight and dealing with it later. That's the right way to handle it.
Save your righteous anger for someone else. My children have more decency than some moms I've seen breastfeeding. You are way out of line.
Well, you're currently running second for "stupidest post on the thread." But I'm willing to upgrade you to first if you repeat your performance.
LOL
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