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So? Were you being forced to look in her general direction? No! What you did was very rude. She made the effort of having a blanket over herself so as to not offend the general populace, and you decided to be an asshole about it.Superman wrote:I don't think you would have enjoyed watching the woman in "Togo's" do it. She was not what one would call... attractive.
Superman wrote:My girlfriend wanted Togo's today, so we went there to eat. I look over, and there is this huband and wife, along with their three kids, and a baby. The couple was quite young too; they were probably Mormons or something. Anyway, the woman starts to breast feed the baby. She used a blanket, but she would frequently open the blanket to look at her child. Ok, so being the testosterone filled weight lifter that I am, I shook my head at her when she glanced at me. She then said, "what, this is very natural." Of course I replied, "so is taking a shit." My girlfriend glared at me so I shut up.
In retrospect, I guess there is really nothing wrong with breast feeding in public. Once again, my mouth ran before my brain, but what do you people think about breast feeding in public? Is it ok? Gross? Something that should not be done in public?
Waaazzaaapthats my point. There are worse things than breast feeding in public. You see what I'm saying Loc dog G slice
*snip* means that I snipped the text itself, but made clear who I was talking to. Courteous people do it so the rest of the board doesn't need to read the same block of text a dozen times.Superman wrote:What the hell is *snip*?
I tend to agree. If one absolutely has to breastfeed in public, they should at least make the effort to cover up and do it somewhere where there aren't a lot of people around to stare.Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:I don't have a problem with breast-feeding, as the boobie milk is good for the baby, but I think it should be done where everybody isn't looking at the mother, for modesty's sake.
Ah, so a nursing mother must be isolated to prevent offending the prudes? Why is "modesty" a virtue? Do you know any women who breast-feed? Do you know how often they must feed, and how unpredictable the baby's demands can be? Do you know that they're FUCKING SICK AND TIRED OF ASSHOLES TELLING THEM THAT THEY HAVE TO LEAVE THEIR PRESENCE TO DO IT???Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:I don't have a problem with breast-feeding, as the boobie milk is good for the baby, but I think it should be done where everybody isn't looking at the mother, for modesty's sake.
Why don't you calm down Mike.Darth Wong wrote:Ah, so a nursing mother must be isolated to prevent offending the prudes? Why is "modesty" a virtue? Do you know any women who breast-feed? Do you know how often they must feed, and how unpredictable the baby's demands can be? Do you know that they're FUCKING SICK AND TIRED OF ASSHOLES TELLING THEM THAT THEY HAVE TO LEAVE THEIR PRESENCE TO DO IT???Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:I don't have a problem with breast-feeding, as the boobie milk is good for the baby, but I think it should be done where everybody isn't looking at the mother, for modesty's sake.
Probably because he is a parent and knows that children do not follow schedules.Dalton wrote:Why don't you calm down Mike.Darth Wong wrote:Ah, so a nursing mother must be isolated to prevent offending the prudes? Why is "modesty" a virtue? Do you know any women who breast-feed? Do you know how often they must feed, and how unpredictable the baby's demands can be? Do you know that they're FUCKING SICK AND TIRED OF ASSHOLES TELLING THEM THAT THEY HAVE TO LEAVE THEIR PRESENCE TO DO IT???Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:I don't have a problem with breast-feeding, as the boobie milk is good for the baby, but I think it should be done where everybody isn't looking at the mother, for modesty's sake.
That's no reason to get up Smi's ass because he has an opposing viewpoint.TrailerParkJawa wrote:Probably because he is a parent and knows that children do not follow schedules.
My wife was regularly harassed and given dirty stares by people spouting that "modesty" bullshit. She was very upset about it, and even broke down in tears once because of abusive treatment. I will get pissed off if I goddamned well feel like it.Dalton wrote:That's no reason to get up Smi's ass because he has an opposing viewpoint.TrailerParkJawa wrote:Probably because he is a parent and knows that children do not follow schedules.
You go ahead and get nice and pissed off. I'll stand over there and watch this thread explode into a sea of useless flames. Your call, Mike. I leave this thread in your hands.Darth Wong wrote:My wife was regularly harassed and given dirty stares by people spouting that "modesty" bullshit. She was very upset about it, and even broke down in tears once because of abusive treatment. I will get pissed off if I goddamned well feel like it.
It was always a sea of useless flames. It started with Superman bragging about how he was deliberately hostile toward a woman for breast-feeding in public, for fuck's sake.Dalton wrote:You go ahead and get nice and pissed off. I'll stand over there and watch this thread explode into a sea of useless flames. Your call, Mike. I leave this thread in your hands.
I don't know, his first post had him being a dick as usual but nothing really flameworthy (even admitted that he fucked up). Given his history I'm not surprised things degraded like this.Darth Wong wrote:It was always a sea of useless flames. It started with Superman bragging about how he was deliberately hostile toward a woman for breast-feeding in public, for fuck's sake.Dalton wrote:You go ahead and get nice and pissed off. I'll stand over there and watch this thread explode into a sea of useless flames. Your call, Mike. I leave this thread in your hands.
That's not my problem, Mike. You didn't have to go totally apeshit about it - but hey, your call.Darth Wong wrote:The problem is that not one person here is willing to look at it from the perspective of the woman. So on behalf of my wife, I'm going to make people take note of her perspective. I've seen how these kinds of attitudes hurt my wife, and I'll be goddamned if I just sit down and let people shrug it off like it's perfectly reasonable.
Actually, to nitpick: I think it started with the "Don't fat chicks know they're supposed to be funny?" hole Superman dug a while back. A lot of people's reaction's here are sort of a 'here we go again' responce.Darth Wong wrote:It was always a sea of useless flames. It started with Superman bragging about how he was deliberately hostile toward a woman for breast-feeding in public, for fuck's sake.Dalton wrote:You go ahead and get nice and pissed off. I'll stand over there and watch this thread explode into a sea of useless flames. Your call, Mike. I leave this thread in your hands.
True, although I think the oppressive attitude toward nursing women is bad enough even on its own merits. A woman who has just gone through pregnancy and is caring for a baby is under extraordinary mental and physical stresses, and for some idiot in a shopping mall to grouse that the tranquility of his shopping day has been ruined because she wouldn't scurry out of sight to feed her baby is extremely offensive to me.Darth Utsanomiko wrote:Actually, to nitpick: I think it started with the "Don't fat chicks know they're supposed to be funny?" hole Superman dug a while back. A lot of people's reaction's here are sort of a 'here we go again' responce.Darth Wong wrote:It was always a sea of useless flames. It started with Superman bragging about how he was deliberately hostile toward a woman for breast-feeding in public, for fuck's sake.
Nitpick: I think there are plenty of people on your side of the arguement even if they did not express it as you did. Sometimes, there is no substitute for real world experience.Darth Wong wrote:The problem is that not one person here is willing to look at it from the perspective of the woman. So on behalf of my wife, I'm going to make people take note of her perspective. I've seen how these kinds of attitudes hurt my wife, and I'll be goddamned if I just sit down and let people shrug it off like it's perfectly reasonable.
