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[twirlability]

This is a small stupid, but it’s always nice to have a bit of a breather from the rampant racism, adoption wank and child molestation. Plus, there are boobs. It’s a win/win.

Once again, breastfeeding in public gets people all in a tizzy.

two_stabs makes a post (although a rather inflammatory one) about a Houston woman who was asked to leave a restaurant

Comments

[evilgrins]

as well it should. why must people feed breasts in public? why can they not do it in the safety of their homes. too much rish of the breasts getting free and attacking an unprotected populace.

*runs & hides*

[wickedmommy]

Oh God the horrible mental images I just got. LOL

[evilgrins]

Fear de evil dat is me!

[tomecatti]

Wobble Wars?

[claudiag]

Breastfeeding in public always brings out the wank. Good post.

[maenads_dance]

Gods, Breastwank makes me tired. As far as I know, there are no serious health hazards from breastmilk, so I doubt breastfeeding in public, even in a restaurant, is any more unsanitary than mingling with people in general. Modesty, and society's expectations of modest dress, are essentially arbitrary. There's no *good reason* to make public breastfeeding illegal.

At the same time, I can understand some amount of discomfort. However natural and normal the act of breastfeeding is, it's still a terribly intimate one, and while I'm all for mothers having the right to breastfeed in public, it just seems common sense to me that most mothers would want to have a nursing blanket or something else to give them a little privacy. Still, I absolutely disagree with people saying OMG BREASTFEED IN BATHROOMS!!! Because that absolutely IS more unsanitary than breastfeeding in a restaurant - for the mother and for the baby.

[merlyn4401]

Ever tried to nurse a baby who didn't want a blanket over his head? They are not very cooperative, depite their innocent appearance. :)

Still, I mostly agree with you. The interesting thing is, the vast majority of women manage to nurse so discretely, even without a blanket, that you would never know unless you were right on top of them, or happened to glance over and notice during the latch on/latch off process.

[twirlability]

Still, I mostly agree with you. The interesting thing is, the vast majority of women manage to nurse so discretely, even without a blanket, that you would never know unless you were right on top of them, or happened to glance over and notice during the latch on/latch off process.

That's the one thing that confuses me about breast-feeding wank: it IS so discreet. I almost ALWAYS have to look twice to even be sure that it's not just a mum-and-baby-snuggle going on. Not that it matters either way, but you know what I mean. It's baffling to me that people act as though these mothers are whipping their boobs out and spraying random passerbys with milk.

[littlemissalien]

I'm not even nursing yet (only weeks to go though) and I have nursing tops in anticipation. My Mum wishes they had them available on the high street/at the mall like they are now when she was nursing me and my sister. All too often we just got shoved up inside her top, which was fine for me, I was a tiny winter baby who liked the warmth and snuggling, but not my sister who was a large summer baby who hated being hot and confined! Still, me growing up with a public nurser for a Mum (I was 7 when my sister was born, so I remember her nursing) has prepared me well

[intothemorning]

Best comment (in response to How on earth is a happy, eating baby in any way disruptive to a restaurant?): Economics. You must have noticed that most restaurants have signs saying "No outside food or drink permitted."

LOL

[pernwebgoddess]

Shit. Best leave the formula at home, too.

[pernwebgoddess]

And hell, since the milk is IN those boobs... better live the boobs home too.

[intothemorning]

I say everyone should stay home. I mean to some people, people ARE food.

[pernwebgoddess]

Haven't even looked, but lemme go ahead and refute the argument here

[lizzielove]

Couldn't have said it better myself. While the need to urinate or defecate are natural and are often urgent needs, they're unsanitary and smelly. Sex is also a natural function, but is not truly necessary to the point that the need can be overwhelming. Food, especially to a baby who hasn't the capacity for delaying gratification, is natural and urgent but unlike urinating and defecating is neither unsanitary nor smelly.

People can be such buffoons about that stuff. They're just tits, get over it.

[all_ahoo]

Breastfeeding is NOT comparable to:
-Urination
-Sex
-Defecation
-Masturbation

I think that depends on how the comparison is made. I'm guilty of using the comparison myself, but only when confronted with someone saying "But how can you think breastfeeding is gross?? It's NATURAL!" (and yeah, I've gotten that a lot)

Yeah, well, there are other "natural" things I think are gross too. Like pooping. It's natural, but that doesn't mean I wanna see it. Natural and gross are not mutually exclusive.

[pernwebgoddess]

It's still not valid. You're talking about comparing eating to the act of removing waste products from the body, and to the non-essential act of sexual gratification. No one's gonna die if they don't have sex or poop in the park.

Urine and feces =/= breastmilk. Breastmilk is a sterile substance with antibiotic properties. Not to mention it's FOOD. It's no more gross than spagetti or pizza. And a helluva lot healthier, in fact.