Burger King will now allow breastfeeding in restaurants

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Darth Wong wrote:
David wrote:Hmmmm like I really want to see someone breast feeding next to me while I'm eating. No. thank. you.
Then get up and leave the fucking restaurant. It's none of your goddamned business if she wants to feed her baby.
It's also none of my business whether or not people want to come into a restaurant naked, but its still not something I want to see while I'm eating.
I don't plan on going to anywhere where I expect to see that. Nor do I plan on going anywhere where I expect any of a number of things that I don't like to see while I'm eating. It's not that I care if women breast feed in public, its simply not something I like to see while I'm trying to enjoy a meal.
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Then don't look.

It's not as if a woman breastfeeding a child is some form of eye-magnet that means that whatever direction you look in, it's all you'll see.
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David wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:
David wrote:Hmmmm like I really want to see someone breast feeding next to me while I'm eating. No. thank. you.
Then get up and leave the fucking restaurant. It's none of your goddamned business if she wants to feed her baby.
It's also none of my business whether or not people want to come into a restaurant naked, but its still not something I want to see while I'm eating.
I don't plan on going to anywhere where I expect to see that. Nor do I plan on going anywhere where I expect any of a number of things that I don't like to see while I'm eating. It's not that I care if women breast feed in public, its simply not something I like to see while I'm trying to enjoy a meal.

So if you're sitting in a BK with your back to the table a women and her baby are seated at and the baby starts screaming. What should the women do?
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justifier wrote: So if you're sitting in a BK with your back to the table a women and her baby are seated at and the baby starts screaming. What should the women do?
Suffocate and then EAT HER BABY!

Mmmm BABY FLESH, it's GOOD FOR YA! :shock:
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MKSheppard wrote: Suffocate and then EAT HER BABY!

Mmmm BABY FLESH, it's GOOD FOR YA! :shock:
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How is people eating burgers any less gross than a baby drinking milk? They're the same functions of biology.
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MKSheppard wrote:
justifier wrote: So if you're sitting in a BK with your back to the table a women and her baby are seated at and the baby starts screaming. What should the women do?
Suffocate and then EAT HER BABY!

Mmmm BABY FLESH, it's GOOD FOR YA! :shock:
Mmmm...dead baby
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David wrote:It's also none of my business whether or not people want to come into a restaurant naked, but its still not something I want to see while I'm eating.
I don't plan on going to anywhere where I expect to see that. Nor do I plan on going anywhere where I expect any of a number of things that I don't like to see while I'm eating. It's not that I care if women breast feed in public, its simply not something I like to see while I'm trying to enjoy a meal.
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David wrote:Hmmmm like I really want to see someone breast feeding next to me while I'm eating. No. thank. you.
Hmmmm like I really want to hear some kid scream his head off while I'm eating. Fuck. you.
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Rye wrote:How is people eating burgers any less gross than a baby drinking milk? They're the same functions of biology.
Given what actually goes into the average burger, it's considerably more gross to be seen eating one...
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David wrote:its simply not something I like to see while I'm trying to enjoy a meal.
So? I don't like to see people who are morbidly obese, but I don't boycott restaurants that let them in.
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Vendetta wrote:Then don't look.

It's not as if a woman breastfeeding a child is some form of eye-magnet that means that whatever direction you look in, it's all you'll see.

I certainly wouldn't go out of my way to look at her.
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justifier wrote:

So if you're sitting in a BK with your back to the table a women and her baby are seated at and the baby starts screaming. What should the women do?

I'd say take the baby out and feed him/her, so long as its not right in front of my face I really don't care what she does.
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MKSheppard wrote:
justifier wrote: So if you're sitting in a BK with your back to the table a women and her baby are seated at and the baby starts screaming. What should the women do?
Suffocate and then EAT HER BABY!

Mmmm BABY FLESH, it's GOOD FOR YA! :shock:

A bit on the gamey side tho........
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Rye wrote:How is people eating burgers any less gross than a baby drinking milk? They're the same functions of biology.

A baby drinking milk and a women breast feeding right in front of me while I'm enjoying a meal are two entirely different things. I don't want to see a man come in topless while I'm eating anymore than I do a women.
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Andrew J. wrote:
David wrote:It's also none of my business whether or not people want to come into a restaurant naked, but its still not something I want to see while I'm eating.
I don't plan on going to anywhere where I expect to see that. Nor do I plan on going anywhere where I expect any of a number of things that I don't like to see while I'm eating. It's not that I care if women breast feed in public, its simply not something I like to see while I'm trying to enjoy a meal.
You do not have the right to not be offended. People don't have to modify their behavior just to mollify your sensibilites.

Allow me to take you out to dinner in restuarant full of naked, morbidly obese customers, then you can feel free to patronize me if you can stomach eating a meal. I have the right to be offended at whatever the hell I please.
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Uraniun235 wrote:
David wrote:Hmmmm like I really want to see someone breast feeding next to me while I'm eating. No. thank. you.
Hmmmm like I really want to hear some kid scream his head off while I'm eating. Fuck. you.

And a hearty fuck you too dipshit. I worked in a restaurant for several years and that type of situation almost never came up, and when it did the mother never seemed to have much of a problem going outside to feed her kid for a few minutes.
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Darth Wong wrote:
David wrote:its simply not something I like to see while I'm trying to enjoy a meal.
So? I don't like to see people who are morbidly obese, but I don't boycott restaurants that let them in.

And I wouldn't boycott a restaurant for allowing women to breast feed, its simply not something I want to see while I'm eating.
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You are making a false correlation comparing breast feeding to nakedness. Breast feeding is an important part of a babies health and it should not be denied under any reason. Your delicate sensibilities aren't as important as the childs needs.
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I wonder if me shooting my insulin at the table is analogous here.
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There are limits to public decency. But as long as it's discrete, I wouldn't object, and I don't think that's asking too much of our society.

Whether or not something is a biological function or whatever is not really relevant; every society has certain standards of polite public conduct, and, whether you agree with them or not, you may as well just shut up and follow them. Now everyone's a winner!
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David wrote:It's also none of my business whether or not people want to come into a restaurant naked, but its still not something I want to see while I'm eating.
Requiring a shirt and shoes in restaurants is a matter of sanitation and hygiene. When was the last time you heard about some guy catching bacteria from a woman breast-feeding her child?
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Uther wrote:There are limits to public decency. But as long as it's discrete, I wouldn't object, and I don't think that's asking too much of our society.

Whether or not something is a biological function or whatever is not really relevant; every society has certain standards of polite public conduct, and, whether you agree with them or not, you may as well just shut up and follow them. Now everyone's a winner!
That's simply asinine. A woman breast feeding her child is not a matter of public decency or conduct. The woman is not being "indecent" by giving her child food when it is fucking hungry. It's a matter of feeding a hungry fucking baby.

The only arguments I've seen against the practice of allowing women to breast-feed in restaurants can be summed up as follows. "I don't want to see it because I don't like it." Well tough fucking shit. You know what I don't like? Fat people in spandex. Maybe we should ban them from Burger King, along with those whore mothers who have the audacity to breast-feed their children without retreating to a special tent like some sort of idiotic Christian or Muslim law would require them to.
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Fat people in spandex. Maybe we should ban them from Burger King, along with those whore mothers who have the audacity to breast-feed their children without retreating to a special tent like some sort of idiotic Christian or Muslim law would require them to.
For they are unclean(goes double for the spandex tubbies)....so it is written so let it be DONE!!

Seriously, most women are very discreet when breastfeeding, such as having a towel or spit cloth hanging over the breast while feeding. And I cannot believe some people are comparing breast-feeding in public with taking a shit or pissing in public
I see the Puritan logic still have an affect on us.

[prudish anal retentive voice] OH MY !! A WOMAN BREAST-FEEDING IN PUBLIC ….. SHE MUST BE A PERVERT FORCING US TO WATCH THAT COMPLETELY SEXUAL AND DIRTYACTIVITY…SHE MUST BE EXILED!! [/prudish anal retentive voice]
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David wrote: Allow me to take you out to dinner in restuarant full of naked, morbidly obese customers, then you can feel free to patronize me if you can stomach eating a meal. I have the right to be offended at whatever the hell I please.
Indeed you do. The right to be offended is one of the most precious rights we have. And no, I would not want to eat a meal in that restaurant. However, I would be the one offended, and I would be the person that had to leave, not everyone else.
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