Posted on 09/07/2010 10:18:46 AM PDT by Rebelbase
Cup of Serenity would like to apologize to TraidMommies, and to all breastfeeding mothers for the incident in our store yesterday. We are in full support of the planned nurse-in and will also support a "Breastfeeding Friday," and breastfeeding at anytime. We hope to turn our mistake into a way to help mothers everywhe...
Should women with hungry infants stay out of polite society for the duration? Or just let the hungry infants cry?
So all this talk about covers is just so much camouflage for the REAL issue.
Even if the woman does it under a cover, and even if you do not actually see anything, you still feel she is being immodest and shouldn't do it!
Exactly my point!
All the actual modesty in the world doesn't protect a nursing woman from complaints that she is doing something disgusting in public and shouldn't.
Perhaps you have not read the original article. She was not using a cover, was requested to and refused to do so.
Here it is:
http://www.myfox8.com/news/wghp-story-breasfeeding-asked-100906,0,7048126.story
Does a man’s nipples go to his reproductive gland also?
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Must. Not. Respond.
Oh well, too late. Depends.
If the right woman is touching the man’s nipples, then yes, it very much seems to be connected to the reproductive gland.
However my point stands.
It seems that all the actual modesty and coverage in the world will not protect a nursing mother from “modest” busybodies who want to tell her she is doing something disgusting that shouldn't be done in public.
A reasonable stance that modesty should be adhered to and as much coverage as possible is one thing. Saying that a woman nursing in public is inherently immodest is something else entirely.
There is something rather offputting about adults stuffing their faces with beverages and victuals and getting offended at the youngest of us being fed in the vicinity at the same time.
I didn't see where anybody did say that. A lot of us are embarrassed to see total strangers (and believe me, it's even MORE embarrassing when they're not total strangers) full-exposure while nursing with no effort at modesty.
Breast-fed IS best-fed, and nursing mothers absolutely should not be shoved off into the bathroom, but I've never seen a diaper bag that didn't hold some kind of blankie that could be used for privacy.
So, if that be the case should men be allowed to be seen in public shirtless?
Sorry dude, but the mammary is not a reproductive gland. It is a feeding gland for the infant after reproduction, but it is not a reproductive gland.
Having in the past provided the requisite immunities and bonding to my own offspring in private, I have earned the right to my opinion about public breastfeeding.
See post 109.
But if her breasts are tanned and supple, you are down with that?
“So even if you do not actually see anything, and it is all done under a cover, you are still offended that a baby is deriving nourishment from nursing in your vicinity?
Does your “modesty” oblige you to tell the woman who didn't actually show anything that she is being immodest?”
“That isn't the question. However, I tend to avoid businesses that would openly cater to such self absorbed women.”
I think in reality the WOMAN's nipples somehow go to the MAN's reproductive gland.
I definitely considered that possibility ; } But my comment still stands, just from a different point of view.
You have a very nice homepage. I am a quote collector myself, and you have many worth remembering. I especially liked this one -
“If it takes force to impose your ideas on your fellow man, there is something wrong with your ideas. If you are willing to use force to impose your ideas on your fellow man, there is something wrong with you.”
—Mark Fournier
FRegards,
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I was just being a smartass anyway.
I have a job in which I serve the public. I have found that many of the women who expose their breasts aggressively do not have nice-looking breasts. Sometimes ludicrously so.
Just so that everyone understands what is involved when society says “okay” to a hot mom — all the pulchritude of the obese generation, with stretch marks and leaks running down staining their t-shirts — will also be on review. It’s about as attractive as the unshaven legs, armpits and upper lips on the “back to nature” moms.
>>Breast-fed IS best-fed, and nursing mothers absolutely should not be shoved off into the bathroom, but I’ve never seen a diaper bag that didn’t hold some kind of blankie that could be used for privacy. <<
Amen!
>>I did see that, and have heard stories (some even on this thread) of women nursing with full coverage being told that they were being immodest.<<
Wouldn’t it be better, rather than arguing that at one time a covered nursing mother was told that she was immodest, agreeing that covering is better?
Unless you’re in the same group as the woman in the coffeeshop.
Cause I’m in a parish where the average number of children is 8. Women breastfeed all the time, even in church. We have had discussion after discussion about how many times they would sit uncovered to feed. NOT ONE would think of feeding without being covered.
You’re not one who would, are you?
It seems to me that there are a couple of extreme positions here with most participants in the thread somewhere in the middle:
There seem to be one or two that think there is no need for a cover at all because within an instant the nipple is covered by the baby’s mouth, and it doesn’t really matter if you can see the rest of the breast or not, so nobody should ask the nursing mother to cover anything up.
At the other extreme, there are some who seem to think that even with a discrete covering it is offensive for a woman to breastfeed in public just because somebody might be able to tell what is going on under there, so the woman should go into a dark room somewhere “private” to nurse her baby.
Then a more prevalent view would suggest that discrete nursing is perfectly acceptable and should not be relegated to some back room just because some overly sensitive boobophobe might be offended just knowing that a baby is suckling on an exposed nipple under that blanket. Proponents of this view would have some disdain for the militant mammarist attention whores that loudly object to “hooter hiders” as oppressive, but would have similar scorn for someone so uptight that they get offended at the thought of a nursing baby under a blanket at the next table over.
The Way They Nurse (with apologies - or maybe not - to Barbra Streissssand)
Mammaries, from the corners of the store
Bulging and lactating mammaries of the way they nurse.
Cell phone pictures of the breasts they left exposed
Breasts they showed to one another
for the way they nurse.
Can it be that they were all so arrogant
or were they just so misunderstood?
If they flopped them out for all the world to see
tell me who would, want to?
Mammaries, may be beautiful and yet
those too homely and obnoxious
are those who choose to project
So it's the heiphers we will remember
whenever we remember
the way they nurse.
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