Breastfeeding

[asterroc]

I don't really get what the big issue is about breastfeeding in public. Yes, it makes me feel uncomfortable when I see a woman doing it. However, that's MY problem, not the mother's, not the baby's, so I avert my eyes. It's not doing anyone harm, and it's helping the baby and mother. Stupid people.

It's just like when guys walk around without shirts in their house - I'm not all that comfortable with it, but it's their house, they can do what they want, so it's my problem not theirs. Now, if someone were walking around naked in a friend's house (with me as a witness) I might say something, but chances are just as good that I'd hold my tongue and choose not to return to that place.

Comments

[ayashi.livejournal.com]

Wow... I never realized that some people thought it was such a big deal!

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

I've seen the furor before, but I've never really understood it. I don't think it'd be worth fighting to ban it. I also don't think it'd be worth fighting a pre-existing ban if I were the mother. I just don't get it. Maybe b/c I don't have all those motherly instincts... *shrug*

[sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com]

Considering that my mother worked as a labor & delivery nurse and raised four kids, I don't see what the big deal is, either, but it's interesting to note that the only people who make a fuss are guys. Oh, it's perfectly okay to display disrobed breasts in public if they're being used as secondary sexual displays, but Elvis help the woman who intends to use them for their primary purpose.

[oh-chris.livejournal.com]

see, i totally invite my friends to walk around naked in my house. um, i guess consider that a warning?
and don't get me started on the whole "the female nipple is the leading cause of retinal scarring in prepubescent youth" thing again...

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

*nods* It's your own house, you can do what you want. If friends who live in a semi-nude house have a big party I assume that there will not be nudity unless they say otherwise; if I were to go over individually I would ask about it; if I were to go over prior to knowing about it I would expect the host to warn me since it is not common practice.

And WTF?! Nipples cause physical scarring? They're so soft, I would think it's impossible.