Why is breastfeeding in public acceptable?

ZilkyG

Genuine question. This seems to be all the rage now, and the argument for it, is that it's completely natural! Well so is ****ting, yet society dictates that we must withdraw to the shadows for something so 'natural'.

branie2

Just a mother feeding her baby

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ZilkyG wrote: »

Genuine question.

No it isn't

ZilkyG

What Username Guidelines wrote: »

No it isn't

Yes it is.

Smart Bug

ZilkyG wrote: »

Genuine question. This seems to be all the rage now, and the argument for it, is that it's completely natural! Well so is ****ting, yet society dictates that we must withdraw to the shadows for something so 'natural'.

Because society has fetishised the female breast, it seems verboten to some people.

But it is natural. They’re just feeding their babies ffs. Get over it.

GooglePlus

It's nothing more than a baby being fed. If a breast stirs you up so much, that's on you.

Taking a dump in public can't be compared as the same, come on now.

ZilkyG

Smart Bug wrote: »

Because society has fetishised the female breast, it seems verboten to some people.

But it is natural. They’re just feeding their babies ffs. Get over it.

So is crapping.

Fiery mutant

Because there is public amenities to get rid of your bodily waste. And it ****in stinks. Do you really wanna drop your kak’s In the middle of Starbucks and **** in the floor.

When your born one of the first things you do is get to suck on a titty. It warps my mind as to why people get so bent out of shape over this.

ZilkyG

ZilkyG wrote: »

Yes it is.

All you have to do is look away...the world will keep on turning.

eviltwin

ZilkyG wrote: »

Genuine question. This seems to be all the rage now, and the argument for it, is that it's completely natural! Well so is ****ting, yet society dictates that we must withdraw to the shadows for something so 'natural'.

What would your advice be to a mother with a hungry baby and no formula?

Sittingpretty

Can. Open. Worms. Everywhere.

endacl

None of the rest of us have to 'withdraw to the shadows' to eat.

Insect Overlord

Why is trolling in public acceptable?

Genuine question. This seems to be all the rage now, and the argument for it, is that it's completely just banter! Well so is ****ting, yet society dictates that we must withdraw to the shadows for something so 'natural'.

Bob Harris

ZilkyG wrote: »

Genuine question. This seems to be all the rage now, and the argument for it, is that it's completely natural! Well so is ****ting, yet society dictates that we must withdraw to the shadows for something so 'natural'.

Is there something wrong with me that I read the censored word as squirting?

Smart Bug

ZilkyG wrote: »

So is crapping.

Which is feeding someone, I guess, if you’re at the top of the human centipede.

What’s your problem with it? Why is it such an issue for you?

ZilkyG

Smart Bug wrote: »

Which is feeding someone, I guess, if you’re at the top of the human centipede.

What’s your problem with it? Why is it such an issue for you?

Crapping or breastfeeding?

Hurrache

ZilkyG wrote: »

Genuine question. This seems to be all the rage now, and the argument for it, is that it's completely natural! Well so is ****ting, yet society dictates that we must withdraw to the shadows for something so 'natural'.

All the rage now? Did you just hatch?

Gwen Cooper

Little babies need to eat every few hours. The breast provides the food. It's fresh and nutritious. Would you prefer if the mother was feeding her baby in a dirty public bathroom, just so people don't see a bit of a boobie?

red petal

What's your issue with it?

*Genuine question

Sittingpretty

It fries my brain that there exists people bothered by a mother feeding her baby in public.

Why is anything acceptable in public? Why is eating in public acceptable? Why is reading in public acceptable? Why is talking in public acceptable?

Mainly because no one has offered any argument why it should not be.

It would be up to you to construct a case as to why it is not acceptable to do so - not for us to make a case that it is. Otherwise you would have to justify anything we do in public ever.

J11

OP was never breastfed as a baby

JoeyJJ

Deleted User wrote: »

All you have to do is look away...the world will keep on turning.

Its the preferred option too as nobody wants to feed their child with some randomer staring at them.

Peregrinus

ZilkyG wrote: »

Genuine question. This seems to be all the rage now, and the argument for it, is that it's completely natural! Well so is ****ting, yet society dictates that we must withdraw to the shadows for something so 'natural'.

Why in God's name would it not be acceptable? Genuine question.

The argument for allowing breastfeeding in public is not that it's "completely natural". It's must simpler than that; it's that there is no reason to forbid it, and we shouldn't forbid things unless we have a fairly good reason for forbidding them.

red petal

Because when a woman is breastfeeding, her breasts fill with milk.. for the baby (imagine!), the child gets hungry, the woman's breast become sore and the child would become distressed. So naturally, she feeds the baby. No one else is effected.

If someone needs to have a **** in public, there are plenty of public toilets with sanitary disposal of said ****. Therefore the civilized people use these for hygiene reasons for the protection of all.

Hope that simplifies it for you.

*Genuine Answer

the beer revolu

Stop breastfeeding the troll!

ZilkyG

ZilkyG wrote: »

I don't think people who are eating in restaurant should have to watch a baby suckling a lactating udder. At least cover it with a scarf or something.

This is up there with the guy who can not stand to watch two gay people holding hands in a restaurant without calling the staff to intervene. No on in a restaurant "has" to watch anything. If you choose to go to a restaurant then you are choosing to eat with the public - and anything they do. In fairness in some of my restaurant experiences seeing a baby feed would be much preferable to how some of the adults do.

If you do not want to watch people breast feed in a restaurant do not go to a restaurant. If you do not want to see obese people squeezed into lycra getting off bikes then probably do not eat or drink in an outdoor Beer Garden. I do not tend to want to watch spotty teenagers take enormous handfuls of popcorn and insert them into their mouth in one lump. I realise if I _choose_ to go to a cinema in the afternoon - I will likely see just that. My problem - not theirs.

What you "have" to see is your call. Not theirs. Your problem. Not theirs.

Hurrache

ZilkyG wrote: »

I don't think people who are eating in restaurant should have to watch a baby suckling a lactating udder. At least cover it with a scarf or something.

You must name and shame those restaurants that allow this. Imagine going out for a nice meal, your head clamped in place, eyes held open by glue, and you're put in front of a breast feeding mother.

Why are you afraid of boobs OP?

Deleted User wrote: »

If you do not want to see obese people squeezed into lycra getting off bikes then probably do not eat or drink in an outdoor Beer Garden.

LOL, reminds me of the guy who always turns up in the cycling threads obsessed with looking at men's crotches when they come into a cafe wearing cycling gear.

Sittingpretty

ZilkyG wrote: »

I don't think people who are eating in restaurant should have to watch a baby suckling a lactating udder. At least cover it with a scarf or something.

I’m in my forties with a gaggle of children. I think in my whole lifetime I’ve seen maybe 6 times a mother breastfeeding in public and each of those times all I’ve seen is the back of a contented baby’s head.

If you’re staring it says more about you to be honest.

Get over yourself. Breasts are mammary glands for feeding a baby. Simple as.

amcalester

ZilkyG wrote: »

I don't think people who are eating in restaurant should have to watch a baby suckling a lactating udder. At least cover it with a scarf or something.

Newsflash: you don’t have to watch. You’re choosing to.

Weirdo, don’t be that guy.

Gwen Cooper

ZilkyG wrote: »

I don't think people who are eating in restaurant should have to watch a baby suckling a lactating udder. At least cover it with a scarf or something.

If it bothers you so much, you can always cover yourself with a scarf or something. See how you like eating with a scarf on your head.

Your Face

I thought it would bother me but I saw it a few times in public over the years.

It's very natural and human.

People would be up in arms if someone was giving a blowjob on the street but breastfeeding is now acceptable?

Some world.

Gimme A Pound

"So is sh1tting" is one of the greatest, cleverest, most original ripostes. Its brilliance is magnified by how directly comparable defecation is to feeding a baby.

joe40

This thread is just a wind up. It is really not worth engaging with.

Breast feeding is the best nutritional start a baby can get, and breastfeeding rates in Ireland are among the lowest in Europe.

I know breastfeeding can be difficult and painful and not for everyone, but if you can breastfeed, don't let idiots tell you how you should go about it.

Gimme A Pound

Gimme A Pound wrote: »

"So is sh1tting" is one of the greatest, cleverest, most original ripostes. Its brilliance is magnified by how directly comparable defecation is to feeding a baby.

Made only more magnificent by the fact that most babies you see wearing nappies - are likely crapping in public too

d8491prj5boyvg

This is surely a troll

ohnonotgmail

Hurrache wrote: »

You must name and shame those restaurants that allow this. Imagine going out for a nice meal, your head clamped in place, eyes held open by glue, and you're put in front of a breast feeding mother.

Why are you afraid of boobs OP?

is the OP this guy?

Uncharted

ZilkyG wrote: »

Genuine question. This seems to be all the rage now, and the argument for it, is that it's completely natural! Well so is ****ting, yet society dictates that we must withdraw to the shadows for something so 'natural'.

Breasts are used to feed hungry babies.

Did you know that OP?

ZilkyG

amcalester wrote: »

Newsflash: you don’t have to watch. You’re choosing to.

Weirdo, don’t be that guy.

By that logic, it shouldn't bother you if there's someone sitting across from you in a restaurant, bollock naked and covered in bee-stings.

Sittingpretty

[Deleted User] wrote: »

People would be up in arms if someone was giving a blowjob on the street but breastfeeding is now acceptable?

Some world.

If you can’t see the difference between providing sustenance for a small child and giving sexual pleasure to an adult then you’re to be pitied.

Some world indeed.

ohnonotgmail

ZilkyG wrote: »

By that logic, it shouldn't bother you if there's someone sitting across from you in a restaurant, bollock naked and covered in bee-stings.

you really do suck at analogies.

Gimme A Pound

ZilkyG wrote: »

By that logic, it shouldn't bother you if there's someone sitting across from you in a restaurant, bollock naked and covered in bee-stings.

Why would they do that? It doesn't involve (hopefully) feeding a baby so it's unnecessary.

ZilkyG

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

you really do suck at analogies.

What's wrong with that analogy? Both are based on the premise that one is choosing to look at something extraordinary.

Dravokivich

You're free to move about in public. You don't need to feel trapped or restrained by all those suckling babies. Just put 1 foot in front of the other, until you've reached a safe space for yourself to have a shíte.

GooglePlus

GooglePlus wrote: »

Taking a dump in public can't be compared as the same, come on now.

Paging JohnnyFlash, paging JohnnyFlash.

Gimme A Pound

Sittingpretty wrote: »

If you can’t see the difference between providing sustenance for a small child and giving sexual pleasure to an adult then you’re to be pitied.

Some world indeed.

I'm assuming (assuming) she was being ironic/poking fun at the OP.

Sittingpretty

Gimme A Pound wrote: »

I'm assuming (assuming) she was being ironic/poking fun at the OP.

Ah ok.... that one flew right over my radar

Neyite

Every time I see a thread like this it reinforces my belief that the breastfeeding isn't the thing that outrages the male posters against it, it's the fact that the woman has dared to use her breasts for a purpose other than to give them a boner and their egos can't take that.

Gimme A Pound

Sittingpretty wrote: »

Ah ok.... that one flew right over my radar

I don't know though - possibly not!

amcalester

ZilkyG wrote: »

By that logic, it shouldn't bother you if there's someone sitting across from you in a restaurant, bollock naked and covered in bee-stings.

They’re not really comparable.

But, playing your game I’d be more curious than anything else. I’d definitely have questions.

I probably wouldn’t order anything with honey in it though.