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Why is breastfeeding in public acceptable?

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  • #32
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭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.


  • #33
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


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

    Some world.


  • #34
    Gimme A Pound
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭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.


  • #35
    joe40
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,814 ✭✭✭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.


  • #36
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,344 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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 :)


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  • #37
    d8491prj5boyvg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 506 ✭✭✭d8491prj5boyvg


    This is surely a troll


  • #38
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,045 ✭✭✭✭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?

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  • #39
    Uncharted
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭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?


  • #40
    ZilkyG
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 71 ✭✭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.


  • #41
    Sittingpretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,872 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #42
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,045 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #43
    Gimme A Pound
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭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.


  • #44
    ZilkyG
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 71 ✭✭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.


  • #45
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,384 CMod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #46
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,094 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


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

    Paging JohnnyFlash, paging JohnnyFlash.


  • #47
    Gimme A Pound
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭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.


  • #48
    Sittingpretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,872 ✭✭✭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 :D


  • #49
    Neyite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,947 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #50
    Gimme A Pound
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭Gimme A Pound


    Sittingpretty wrote: »
    Ah ok.... that one flew right over my radar :D
    I don't know though - possibly not!


  • #51
    amcalester
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,097 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #52
    ZilkyG
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 71 ✭✭ZilkyG


    Neyite wrote: »
    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.

    If you gathered that from my question, you have some sort of Freudian complex.


  • #53
    ZilkyG
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 71 ✭✭ZilkyG


    amcalester wrote: »
    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.
    Why aren't they comparable, going on the argument that you have to look at neither?


  • #54
    Neyite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,947 ✭✭✭✭Neyite


    ZilkyG wrote: »
    If you gathered that from my question, you have some sort of Freudian complex.


    eh, the title of your thread is "Why is breastfeeding in public acceptable"


  • #55
    Gimme A Pound
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭Gimme A Pound


    If people feel a bit uncomfortable about the boob being completely out, I get that - but that doesn't happen. Breastfeeding mothers always cover their boob. I don't think they want their entire breast exposed either.


  • #56
    ZilkyG
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 71 ✭✭ZilkyG


    Neyite wrote: »
    eh, the title of your thread is "Why is breastfeeding in public acceptable"

    Eh, and you gathered from the title that that it shouldn't be acceptable to breastfeed, according to me, because breasts should be reserved exclusively to give men boners. I mean, you're really filling in the gaps yourself here aren't you.


  • #57
    Gimme A Pound
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭Gimme A Pound


    ZilkyG wrote: »
    Why aren't they comparable, going on the argument that you have to look at neither?
    The more pertinent argument is that one is for providing sustenance to an infant.


  • #58
    ZilkyG
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 71 ✭✭ZilkyG


    Gimme A Pound wrote: »
    If people feel a bit uncomfortable about the boob being completely out, I get that - but that doesn't happen. Breastfeeding mothers always cover their boob. I don't think they want their entire breast exposed either.

    Yes it does. I previously commented about using a scarf or something to cover themselves, which is fine. Exposing fully and breastfeeding in plain view in a restaurant is trashy, lazy and sloppy.


  • #59
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    All you ever see is the top of the breast. The baby's head covers everything. You'd see more boob in a low cut top but no one wants to ban them.

    Neyite hit the nail on the head, it's immature assholes who can't handle the notion that breasts have a function beyond getting them excited.


  • #60
    amcalester
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,097 ✭✭✭amcalester


    ZilkyG wrote: »
    Why aren't they comparable, going on the argument that you have to look at neither?

    Using your words because one is extraordinary and the other isn’t.

    Nothing extraordinary about a woman breastfeeding, despite your own particular hang ups.


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  • #61
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    ZilkyG wrote: »
    Yes it does. I previously commented about using a scarf or something to cover themselves, which is fine. Exposing fully and breastfeeding in plain view in a restaurant is trashy, lazy and sloppy.

    That doesn't happen. If it does its usually accidental and probably mortifying for the woman involved. Be a gentleman and don't stare, it makes you look like a creep.


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