Breastfeeding in public spaces?

[Aldgarkalaughskel]

Mum thrown off bus for breastfeeding her baby girl

What do you think about this?

My opinion is that it is perfectly natural and acceptable. It benefits the health of a little child. It can be done very discreetly and no one even needs to look. Why are people shocked or offended by this?

[tonymurphy1888]

I think if it can wait it would be better but if the child needs fed well the child needs to be fed, people are just kinna made uncomfortable by it because the way alot of people wer brought up

[CtrlAltDe1337]

I think if it can wait it would be better but if the child needs fed well the child needs to be fed, people are just kinna made uncomfortable by it because the way alot of people wer brought up

I agree with this. She isn't trying to be a whore or anything, just feed her baby. If you have to I think its OK, but do it in a corner or something if possible.

[Elfdude]

Mum thrown off bus for breastfeeding her baby girl

What do you think about this?

My opinion is that it is perfectly natural and acceptable. It benefits the health of a little child. It can be done very discreetly and no one even needs to look. Why are people shocked or offended by this?

Am I alone in feeling it's very ironic that torque would argue this position?

Also modesty is retarded, there's no point to it.

[Aldgarkalaughskel]

Why would it be ironic?

[removeduser_487563287433]

Yeah, it's fine. People need to grow up, you can't expect a mother to let a young infant go hungry.

[The Dude]

What Ferrets said. Ridiculous prudes with their fear of boobs.

[♔Lord Stason♔]

Ever since the 70's people have been saying; I can do what i want, say what i want and demand what i want. Ever since people’s rights have been destroyed via the public not the government.

Why is it socially un-acceptable to wear a hood or breast feed a baby in public?

I'm baffled, really am.

The fact that the hoodie is an item of clothing, and breast feeding in general is a natural thing. I seriously think that becoming a civilization early BC we have grown far too civilized peoples and now think natural things are unacceptable resorting to prosthetic life styles.

[basics]

" Why is it socially un-acceptable to wear a hood or breast feed a baby in public?"

Lord Stason,

Now there are two completely different things drawn into the same argument. Breastfeeding is as natural as breathing air and no-one should be offended by it nor afraid of doing it. As for the wearing of hoods, well that is another matter that in my youth would be regarded as something that sissies did. A boy just wouldn't be seen dead wearing one.

But we know that fashion has changed just as the expectation of youth has changed and it is unfortunate that the hood is one way of disguising the criminal element in the course of their unsavoury work. What it means is that the genteel nature of the public has come to be aware that behind the hood could lie danger thus making ordinary venture not to feel so safe anymore.

If baby needs feeding and breast is the meal then do so but if the feeder has a shawl or suchlike these could be used to cover what some small minded people see as offensive. That is what my wife used to do when outside and our horrors needed their grub. The strange thing is that she was never accosted by anyone who did object or even looked like they were objecting.

[Elfdude]

I wouldn't call it a process of civilization.

Cross class modesty relative to civilization is a relatively recent occurrence. Throughout history aristocrats have always hidden their bits but that is because empires could inevitably rise or fall on the hymen of a noble's daughter, not because of inherent fear of perverts as seems to be the typical response today, but because the more suitors a girl had the more valuable she was and thus it was beneficial to make noble daughters into forbidden fruits of sorts (worked marvelously). Similarly the noble ladies found the strategic clothing was more effective at illiciting lust.

Durring the victorian ages the middle class struggled to find their identity, the first attempt could be called the repression of all things good. The relatively new and relatively large middle class of the Victorian age was a departure from ancient times, suddenly most people had some capital to invest in luxury; however it's not easy for a new class to simply rise up, the middle class was not recognized by nobility because nobility is a title bestowed upon you by birth not wealth. They also had far more than the peasants ever dreamed of.

Given the times though it's unsurprising that the middle class attempted to adopt the aristocracy's practices without understanding the method to the aristocracy's madness. They thought that the ideas of chastity, and modesty were good things, in fact they were only good things by virtue of their rarity. Now a days modesty serves no societal purpose. It's a hold over from a past that we can't get rid of now that it's taken root. Through the progressive romanticization of the concept people have connected piousness, and morality with it even though the concepts are not at all related.

I find it utterly hilarious that exposure in order to accomplish a physical goal other than sex has somehow been connected to the concept due to false idea about the nature of modesty.

Luckily in the US, I don't believe it's legal for anyone to ever tell a breast feeding mother they can't.

[Poet]

Yeah it's nasty and against modesty.

[Valus]

I have no problem with breasfeeding in public, of course a mother should be able to feed her child if need be..If you have a problem with it well then look away..

[God-Emperor of Mankind]

I have no problem with breasfeeding in public, of course a mother should be able to feed her child if need be..If you have a problem with it well then look away..

This.
I have no problem with mother's breastfeeding their baby in public.
If the baby is hungry it's far better to just fed it then to allow it to continue screaming and just annoy everyone else.
Remember in my old workplace where that happen. Baby just kept on screaming until the mother simply had enough, lifted up her shirt and well started to breastfeed it.
And no one even raised an eyebrow, infact we were more grateful since it stopped screaming.

[Adhamh Ashashi]

Yeah it's nasty and against modesty.

Arw you being sarcastic Poet? Breastfeeding is encouraged in Islam, so where are you coming from?

[Enemy of the State]

As I understand, she used a private transport service. So it should be up to the company to decide what it allows on its buses.

[Arch-hereticK]

We need more boobs in public view.

But seriously, it's these bloody hyper-sensitive conservative types that don't like to see the more natural things, down with fascism.

[God-Emperor of Mankind]

As I understand, she used a private transport service. So it should be up to the company to decide what it allows on its buses.

Except according to the article, the company issues and apology and compensated the woman.
So clearly they don't have a problem with her breastfeeding her baby on their bus, it was the bus driver who went out of line.

[Enemy of the State]

Except according to the article, the company issues and apology and compensated the woman.
So clearly they don't have a problem with her breastfeeding her baby on their bus, it was the bus driver who went out of line.

I realize. So there is no problem really, the firm allows breastfeeding on its buses. The driver probably got fired or otherwise punished.
Another firm might decide differently, that's okay too.

[Fiyenyaa]

Arw you being sarcastic Poet? Breastfeeding is encouraged in Islam, so where are you coming from?

What verse of the Qu'ran is that from? Sounds pretty hilarious.

[empr guy]

as long as they do it discreetly and arent trying to draw attention to themselves then i dont see what the problem with it is. Its not like you have to look.