[vigilo]

It seems to me that over the past 20 to 40 years we, as a culture, have forgotten one very important concept that, as I recall, we use to understand. "Mind your own damn business."

It seems that today everyone thinks everything that goes on is their business. The Federal Government certainly sees EVERYTHING as its business, the limitations of the Constitution be damned.

Do cops ever get called and say, "Sorry, we can't get involved in that, it's none of our business."? For example, when a small child acts up in school.

How is it that we have come to believe that everything is everybodies business? Maybe, just maybe, if there is a woman breastfeeding in the next table IT'S NONE OF YOUR DAMN BUSINESS!! Maybe, just maybe, if someone is doing something you don't like IT'S NONE OF YOUR DAMN BUSINESS!! Maybe, just maybe, people who complain about things should be told to MIND YOUR OWN DAMN BUSINESS, rather than being treated as if being a complainer gives you priority over all others.

I think socialism and mass media have turned us into one huge 'small town' of busy bodies who hate other peoples' freedom.

Well, I have some things to do, so I'm going to go mind my own business.

[tutstar]

ping

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

"The security guard came over and asked me to stop, and either go to the restroom or to leave..."


Wow. Such unbearable "harassment."

So let me get this straight, if there's nothing wrong with it and it's the most natural thing in the world, the nursing mother and husband (if he's around) won't mind if I just sit and stare?

Of course they both will because they know what they are doing is against societal standards and there is a movement afoot to make America a little bit more like those cultures that squat in the dirt in bare feet.

If your child is on such a rigid feeding schedule that it can't wait for you to get home (OR TO GO SOMEWHERE PRIVATE), what the heck are you doing at a mall?

[Trinity_Tx]

I gotta say, I am stunned and amazed at some of the replies here. I was against the other woman who did it at the board meeting, but this?

Geeez. Comparing a mother discretely nursing a child to gross things that should be hidden, is just...

No one is less of a feminazi than I, and I am *very* modest.

But done like this mother and I did, no one sees anything they shouldn't see unless they are going out of their way to stare for the slightest accidental glimpse.

And I gotta say - if catchin a glimpse of a possible pink somethin harms your psyche or even as some are saying here, to my shock, just the thought of "what's goin on under that blanket?" grosses you out - that's your issue to deal with.

Anyway, I did what she did, and I'd do it again today - with my husband's full permission.

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[HitmanLV]

Moms who nurse in public need all the obnoxious family and friends in their life to do an 'Intervention' or something. ;-)

[television is just wrong]

I've run into that problem many times. Two children years of breastfeeding. I just ignored them.

I Waitressed at a coffee shop long time ago, was asked by a customer to stop the mother breastfeeding because it made her nauseated. It puts the employee in an awkward position.

[Selkie]

Are we allowed to post photos of women breast feeding on FR ? (this is a leading question btw ;) )

[LibWhacker]

"The human race wouldn't exist without breast milk," said nursing mom Rachel Tarbutton.

Wouldn't exist without fornication either. Doesn't mean we should do it in the mall.

(I'm not a prude or anything. I'm just pointing out this is a very bad argument she's putting forward!)

[all4one]

"Karin Kelly reports "The security guard came over and asked me to stop, and either go to the restroom or to leave," Sparks said."

Meanwhile the same security guard was probably oogling the numerous teenagers walking by in various stages of undress...i.e. thongs with low-rider pants, belly shirts, low cut tops, etc.

[US_MilitaryRules]

Feeding your child in food court! Sounds about right for me!

[TASMANIANRED]

This is a crazy country.

Part of the population wants the right to shove scissors in babies heads and suck their brains out, other want the right to flip their breasts out and feed them in public.

[shaggy eel]

,,, the management of this mall should step in quickly and proclaim they're not anti-family. I'd give them the space of a morning or afternoon to get it sorted, otherwise, don't bother saving a parking space outside for my sledge.

The woman's right... retailers sell near state of undress clothing to mall rats who "hang wit their gurlz" and they flash their stashes a whole lot more than this woman was. I bet there would even be gurlz in the john snorting solvent and Peruvian marching powder so they didn't have to sit on seats in the open spaces with blankets along with breastfeeding mums.

[MissouriConservative]

Yes, breastfeeding is very natural, but so is pooping and I sure don't want to see that while I am eating.

My wife breastfeed our youngest child and when we were planning to go out, she always had a bottle of breastmilk ready to take with us so she would not have to do this in public. She defends breastfeeding, but she's also a modest woman who not do this in public.

[Cinnamon Girl]

If she covered her breasts with a blanket, then nobody should have been complaining.

[MEGoody]

If she was discreetly nursing under a blanket, I don't see the problem. Someone messed up big time and is going to get a wrist slapping.

[new cruelty]

My wife and I used to live a block away from that mall. We didn't have children at the time, but if we did, she may have fed our child in the same manner this person did. We usually try to find a nursing station, but in some instance, our baby did not want to wait, so my wife did what she could. In all that time, no one ever bothered her about it.

[af_vet_1981]

Mall officials said the incident was not normal procedure, and that t heir new security company made a mistake.

Fire them.