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'Indecent' Breastfeeding Photos Still Won't Fly On Facebook
Skirting The Issue
New York, 2:03 PM
Sat Nov 28
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It's kind of like the breast feeding in Starbucks thing. I just think that it should be a private thing that brings you and your baby close together.
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But it's not when you are sitting in a restaurant or cafe. I would personally think that I would not want to have people ogling me when I could find a private place.
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That RUDE people ogle breastfeeding women is their own problem, not the woman's problem. You don't want to deal with idiots staring at you (and who does?!), then you can sit on the toilet to breastfeed when your time comes.
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Some people aren't comfortable with people of different races! Or disabled people! Hell, I don't like looking at people who are ugly as sin but I would never suggest they take my superficial comfort seriously when deciding whether to venture into public.
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I am also not telling people to always take other's comfort into account, I knew someone would bring up race. But, this is not as irrational as being uncomfortable with one's race.
I just have the impression, (granted this is anecdotal), that some women feel that because they have children, they might get a free pass.
I cannot wait to have children, but hopefully I won't turn into a woman who believes she has the right to push people out of the way with my $350 stroller on a crowded city street. Or one who thinks that breast feeding in a family diner or cafe is totally normal because I wasn't the one who sexualized the breast.
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I can't believe breastfeeding in public is taken as some kind of bad manners. That's fucked up. If you don't like breastfeeding in public, don't do it. And look away if someone else is doing it. Or does your neck not work?
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Sorry but we're just not going to agree on this.
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I totally understand the other point of view, I just don't totally agree with it.
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So what are you saying? Children look because they're curious, especially about babies and how they themselves grew. They aren't the outraged ones; adults get outraged on their behalf. And babies need to be fed right when they're hungry. You think your argument would be irrational applied to race, but it's not when it only affects women? That's plainly sexist.
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i take care of my baby. guess what: he sleeps. a lot. usually on top of me, because he's a newborn and he still freaks out when i set him down. not a lot i can do BUT sit with my laptop while he naps.
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If the woman's chest is naked, btw, it's not a breastfeeding photo! Baby's heads are big!!!
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I love her, coolest mom ever. A nuturing soul with an f'd up sense of humor.
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I mean, really. You really, REALLY want to put up pictures of breastfeeding? Or teabagging?! I just don't get people who want to share that degree of themselves with the world. My facebook albums are good memories, trips I've taken, sometimes a few parties if something really notable happened (so and so's 21st birthday, etc.), reunions. But I have a sense of private life. Or, maybe I should say real life. As in: my friends are the people I see all the time, and yes some of them live far away, but lordy lordy, that's what phones are for.
Stop putting your whole life up on the freakin' internet. GO OUTSIDE.
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