Why is it OK?
It's good for the baby - all those antibodies, not to mention a perfectly-formulated food for a human infant. Always warm and fresh. Also encourages bonding with mom.
It's good for the mom. Lessens her risk of breast cancer, releases oxytocin, and encourages bonding with baby.
The importance of bonding is underestimated. I believe many psychological problems are minimized by it, and many begin with a lack of it.
Last but not least, it helps introduce the present "pornified" generation to the true purposes of breasts, and their importance to human life.
Yeah because nobody knew their "true" purpose without women breast feeding in public :eye roll:
PS you missed the point. The question is not "is breast feeding OK." It's "is breast feeding
in public OK."
I also think women should be able to go topless at the beach. Breasts are not inherently sexual.
lol. Yeah right.
This is a ridiculous characterisation of breastfeeding mothers.
How often do you see women 'flopping their breasts around'?
I'd say about 1/3 of of time out of all breast feeding mothers. ie you're right, it's not the norm, but it's not unheard of either.
Although overall I think it's funny how much people are still obsessing on this topic, as the whole thing is pretty rare, as most women DON'T breast feed their children in public (at least not in the USA). And geee I wonder why? Could it be they don't think it's appropriate or "OK" and they realize that a little discretion is in order and it is easy enough to exercise various other options to avoid that? How about that...
What you are seeking to do is to restrict the places or situations where mothers can breastfeed, and you are wrong to do so. They should be allowed to breastfeed wherever they happen to be, whenever the baby needs it. If you don't like it, don't look.
What ridiculous "logic." Based on that, I should be allowed to drop my drawers and scratch my private parts in public. Or walk around nude in public. Or have sex in public. Hey, they're all normal things and if you don't like it, don't look, right?
Sorry, being a mother doesn't mean they should have a free pass to do it however THEY want. God forbid they consider other people around them.
PS it has nothing to do with men being "turned on," despite what many here wish to believe. With rare exception it simply shows a severe lack of discretion, consideration for others, class, and common sense.
bingo I mean I KNOW the baby have to eat, but there is a certain level of respect people should be able to expect in PUBLIC.
That used to be so. Welcome to today. For some people, it's all about them. That's why we have these brilliant parents who think it's perfectly acceptable to bring a screaming baby to a restaurant, like being a parent means they don't have to have consideration for others any more. Or people who blast their so-called "music" to ridiculous levels wherever they go. I remember when some journalist(s) called the 70s the "me decade." I think this is the "me century."
Sex is not something which must be done at a given time. It is something which people can do with a degree of privacy, at an appropriate time. Babies do not get hungry at 'appropriate times', they get hungry when they get hungry, regardless of where they are and what their mother is doing. So she should be able to do what any good mother should do, and address that hunger.
But she doesn't have to address it the very second a baby starts to cry. There's no reason, in about 99.9% of all cases, where she can't get up and go to a more private area away from the general public or (God forbid!) not feed the child as soon as it starts to cry. It is something which she can do with a degree of privacy as well.
For thousands of years women have been shunned for breastfeeding in public? Where'd you hear that?
How tragic that this needs to be explained........
He meant that breasts being a turn-on for men (oops in this day and age I better specify:
heterosexual men) has been true for thousands of years.
How are they disrespectful? In my opinion, women who dont cover up are disrespectful.
Eye contact during feeding could happen when the woman isnt in public. However, in public, people are expected to behave differently for the sake of decency and modesty.
Yeah good luck w/that. Props for trying, but obviously you're wasting your time (as am I, but it's a slow morning
).
The good news is that extremely few women out there agree w/the majority here.
