[tuffydoodle]

"I cannot understand how a society that is absolutely obsessed with breasts (just walk by a magazine stand) can get so bent out of shape when they are used for their ORIGINAL INTENDED PURPOSE."

The winner!!!!

[Alia]

Sorry to bounce on anyone's parade... but I've been through the whole breastfeeding "stuff" years ago -- and in la-la central - San Francisco Bay Area. We had nude students attending Berkeley U. And why not? It's natural. It's organic. I've heard all the argument. I'm pro-nursing; but I think it is rude to breastfeed in public - covered or not. It just invites trouble. So, has breastfeeding in public become a POLITICAL STATEMENT?

In the San Francisco Bay Area, it sure became a political "statement". Governor Wilson had to even "rule" on it -- that's how stupid this argument is. Breastfeeding is a wonderful thing; BUT HERE'S THE POINT -- IT AIN'T FOR EVERYONE. Asking people in a public place to simply "avert" their gaze is the same argument made by liberal exhibitionists.

I can sure understand the breastfeeding parents who are in love with their infant. And understand "nursing" to be a wonderful thing.

But men didn't make boobs an issue any more than women do. The "obsession" with boobs is just as great among women as it is with men.

And what amazes me, is how many pro-nursing females are making this very argument: that breasts are important. Use 'em in public; but get upset if anyone else objects.