Breast-Feeding, Talk but Don’t See

Good for you Sakshi! Glad you’re blogging about this. i find it really strange that there are people around who make such a fuss about breastfeeding in public. i had a post on my blog about this ages back about suggestions that breast feeding be banned in public ( !!) and boy did some funny thinking come out of the woodwork.

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In fact the picture shows maybe 5% of a breast. I mean the baby will also see the breast, does it get spoiled by that? No probably not! US is a really funny country. How can people get “sick” by seeing that? It’s really one of the few normal things that happens in our world.
They should rather ban pictures from iraq war, guantanmo etc.

So what if a bit of breast is visible? Look at the baby’s face, how content he is. It’s not a sexual “thing” for him. It’s his food, his immediate need, a way to connect to his mother and maybe a pillow for sometime but definitely not what the whole world wants it to be.

I did not find this cover offensive at all. Those who opposed it show how perverted their minds really are.

How come women are complaining about breast feeding in public?. Let see who can we blame for these woman’s behaviour and oh why would they protest such a thing. I got it lets blame it on social conditioning? or better yet let’s blame men for that? uh!

arre Saakshi, maarogi aap mujhe.. i browse this blog at my office.. if boss sees it , he will kick me. And if other friendly colleagues do, they will jump to ten different conclusions including - “Going in for sex-change operation kya”, “getting married kya” or just plain simple “you pervert”

I’ve been told that, 30-40 years ago breastfeeding in public was something normal in my country (Turkey), and so every women was feeding her child, and men were respectfully turn their heads. Oh and at those times there were no low-necked dresses worn during day.
Now everyone wears low-necked dresses, t-shirts, etc during day and night but no breastfeeding in public.
I believe no body says “Tut tut tut” when they see all those low-necked clothes, but I wonder how many people will refrain from reacting negatively if they see a breastfeeding in public. (Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against low-cut clothes, one would wear whatever pleases her/him. I am just trying to emphasize the double standards.)

Women’s breasts have become a sexual object so much that even a breastfeeding mother cannot avoid that approach. And this irritates me… Guys may have loved our boobs, yet the reason of existence of breasts is being able to feed the child.
Babies used to be fed without waiting to reach home when distances were closer. Now distances are incredible, yet they can’t be fed immediately when they are hungry.
Women should be able to decide to breastfeed in public or not by themselves. If they don’t want to breastfed in public, that’s fine, but if they don’t do it in order to avoid dirty looks, that’s not fine! (And guess what, I blame the beholder of those dirty looks, not the woman!) (Well, a second thought: if women got sickened for seeing a breasfeeding scene, how can I blame men???)

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Im 100%against breastfeeding in public

I just wanna say that i came from a well mannered, upscale classy upbringing who taught me about manners, being polite and being classy, not being classy, not being well mannered and well polite shows you are an ignorant, lowclass savage. I was raised from good parents who taught me to keep my elbows off the table while eating dinner, i was raised to ask to be excused after done eating, my parents raised me to take off jackets from guest visitors who came into the house, they taught me to bow down to women who entered the room and above all…my father taught my sister never to breastfeed in public. I happen to be a good ultra right wing conservative and the way i see public breastfeeding…i see it as a filthy bad habit, public breastfeeding in restaurants is very impolite, public breastfeeding is rude and disrespectful, public breastfeeding makes a girl look discraceful, cheap and trashy due to her boobs being exposed. Any women who is upscale, polite classy, well mannered, has conservative values, does not public breastfeed, public breast. A women with manners and class goes somewhere PRIVATE to breastfeed her child like a bathroom, a car or her house where its not in the way of customers. I feel that we need a real strong good conservative for president in 2008 election like Newt Gingrich, i feel that Newt Gingrich would make breastfeeding in public illegal in all 50 states just about anywhere to make America back to it was before as a conservative country. When a weak minded liberal society condones indecent exposure such as breastfeeding in public…it shows that society doesnt care anymore about being civilized, having values and showing polite manners to one a nother. If a society can condone public breastfeeding…how long will it be till society condones urinating-defacating in public, our weak minded liberal society is breeding more ignorance in this country to make a newer generation even more ignorant to look at public breastfeeding as a social norm and to be condoned. Our liberal society is indoctrinating a newer generation the wrong way about being civilized, well when you breastfeed in public, it shows you are not civilized, it shows you are ignorant due to the fact that public breastfeeding shows you have no manners and class. For a women to breastfeed in public…it shows how discraceful she is, it shows she has no respect for other people’s compforts, it shows she has no respect for herself as a women and no consideration for others. If a women wants to breastfeed in public, she better know what to expect like having onlookers stare at her, having onlookers give her dirtylooks, bringing shame and discrace on her and her family as well. Its time that a society needs to wakeup and smell the coffee and stop condoning this bad indecent behaviour such as public breastfeeding, because if society keeps seeing public breastfeeding as socially acceptable, we could endup losing a civilized society with no values

Ummm Apollo…you quoted by saying this “I did not find this cover offensive at all. Those who opposed it show how perverted their minds really are.” umm Appolo your wrong 100% ok!!!…anyone who opposes public breastfeeding does not have a perverted mind, in fact anyone who opposes public breastfeeding is a well mannered, decent person that shows that they care and not to let civilization and good conservative values go to waste. For you to say such abcurred things like that appollo that anyone who opposes public breastfeeding has a perverted mind would be like for example if i said “anyone who opposes urinating-defacating in public has a perverted mind”. Appollo…i got a question…if a man pulls out his penis to urinate in public in front of a bunch of kids, does that make the innocent kids perverted for opposing that indecent behaviour…? or does it make that man a pervert –hypothedically speaking–for pulling out his penis in front of a bunch of kids to urinate in public????. Appollo….your logic is half * and you make no sense whats so ever appollo, i myself personally think that if anyone exposes there private parts wether if its a breast or a penis, then that makes them a 100% pervert, not the ones who oppose it appollo