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A flight attendant tried to hand her a blanket and told her to cover up, Gillette said. She declined, telling the flight attendant she had a legal right to breast-feed her baby.

In other words, she picked a fight with the flight attendant before takeoff. What a dumb thing to do.

[Tax-chick]

And I have nursed babies on airplanes, resulting in total indifference from all present except the relevant baby.

[raybbr]

Gillette said she was seated in the second-to-last row, next to the window, when she began to breast-feed her daughter. Breast-feeding helps babies with the altitude changes through takeoff and landings, Gillette said. She said she was being discreet -- her husband was seated between her and the aisle -- and no part of her breast was showing.

Gillette said that's when a flight attendant approached her, trying to hand her a blanket and directing her to cover up. Gillette said she told the attendant she was exercising her legal right to breast-feed, declining the blanket. That's when Gillette alleges the attendant told her, "You are offending me," and told her to cover up her daughter's head with the blanket.From here.

Well. The flight attendant was offended. She/he was probably the only one to see it but she/he was so offended she/he had a mother and her daughter removed from the flight.

I suspect the flight attendant was a man but they don't say. In my experience only men are offended by a baby breasfeeding. Why? I have no idea.