So I was breezing through facebook today and a very interesting topic popped up. Boy did I arouse a hornets nest on this one. So lets see, forced to cover up?
Well no one should be forced to do anything, this isn’t an issue that necessarily needs enforcing especially as their is such a mix on opinions, by the looks of things, the majority, women, are totally opposed to the banishment of public breastfeeding. Some of the arguments so far… It’s a natural thing to do. And… Where do we send the mothers to breastfeed if not in public? To the dirty stinky holes, they call restrooms? (Between me and you…if they can’t respect their public restrooms, they should be forced to breastfeed in them, see how they like it! ) Just kidding on the last comment btw…bad joke? Okay, I take it back.
My objection, if any at all, isn’t that there should be any type of enforcement, but maybe a tad bit of decorum. I mean some women, take out their boobies and throw them at you. I’m breezing through the mall and leave with boobie slap marks on my face. Are they feminists, just trying to make a point? Or are they abused women who are lashing back at society for telling them what they can or cannot do in public, whilst enduring extremely sensitive nipples. Show a little discretion please. By all means, feed your baby in public, just take a sweater or some article of clothing and cover your breast. How hard can that be? Are the ignorant inconsiderate minority asking for too much?
I will never actually know or understand what it is like to have a little baby sucking on my nips, thank God! But I do sympathize with women. I can see how this is frustrating and hence a sensitive issue for many. So I say, feed your baby, plop out your boobies, spend all day if you wish, just know that there are some people who could be offended and they will never understand your perspective, so just cover them up, that way we can resolve all the boobie wars at the malls….
I have to agree. My fiance and I went for a shopping trip to Ikea (which is very busy) last week and in the very first furniture display as you enter the store is a young woman, naked breast hanging out with a child attached to it, with no blanket or towel or anything!
I was so embarrassed to walk by there, I actually told my fiance that we had to leave the display because I just didn’t feel it was appropriate.
I had a job interview once with a woman who chose to do the very same thing as she was interviewing me. We were sitting across from each other, and I was so embarrassed I couldn’t answer the questions right. I didn’t know where to put my eyes! I ended up phoning the office later that week and telling them that I wouldn’t take the job.
I understand that women need to breastfeed, and sometimes they have no choice but to do it publicly, but please consider that there are other people in the world, and that we have rights to go somewhere without having to see naked breasts. I am a modest woman and would never dream of doing that myself.
So long as they are discreet about it, no?