Caption! Moms at the Nurse-In

Yahoo | 11/21/2006

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Fallacy of false options (either/or).

The mother can pump, bottle it, and bottle feed her child on the flight. I know lots of people who do it that way. Happy child, happy parents, happy fliers, none offended.

[Redcloak]

And you know for a fact that they have access to a pump because...?

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

If they can afford a flight, they can afford a $40 pump. In fact, I don't know any mothers who don't have a pump and use it at home to "stock up."

But you're right. My argument assumes they plan ahead because they are considerate. No one should have to plan ahead because no one should have to be considerate.

[Redcloak]

Are you one of those "Boobies = Porn" people?

[elc]

Your argument also assumes the baby will take a bottle, which many exclusively breastfed babies won't.

[spacecowboynj]

"Psychosis" about breasts? Where have I exhibited any such thing accept in your imagination? Would I have a "psychosis" about feet if I think someone in a 747 should put their shoes back on if a flight attendant tells them to (which, incidentally, is the rules according to Delta's Contract of Carriage)?

Here's what I have a massive problem with: Delta's accountants showing their execs the bottom line in a year from now when twenty million dollars has been spent feeding lawyers because some idiot had an attitude with a flight attendant and some "mothers" with clearly too much time on their hand "protested" at major airports. This has nothing to do with breast and everything to do with the infantilization of adults in this country in addition to it becoming the Land of the Lawsuit.