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Poll: Do you take issue with public breast feeding?
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Your Sentiments on Breast Feeding in Public
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RE: Your Sentiments on Breast Feeding in Public
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#12
RE: Your Sentiments on Breast Feeding in Public
(September 14, 2015 at 5:40 pm)MTL Wrote: Shaming a mother for feeding her child is disgusting and uptight and misguided.

It is not a dirty function, like urination or defecation.
There is no waste being produced.

It is not a sexual function.

There is nothing shameful or immodest or dirty about feeding an infant.

It is frowned upon ONLY because we have made breasts more primarily sexual things,
than for feeding infants.

I think humans are the only species who have done this.

We are all human.

That is how humans feed their infants.

If anything, it should be respected and protected.

Nobody else hesitates to eat in public,
and some adults eat in a far more off-putting manner that a nursing infant does.

Let the kid eat.

Humans feed their infants with a bottle, as the good lord intended. You use a pump to fill the bottle in a room behind 4 locked door, in the dark. Then when you're done, you clean yourself up and ask god for forgiveness for touching your own body. Then you tell everyone you're feeding the baby cow's milk, like you buy at the store in jugs.


Catholic_Lady Wrote:May I ask what it is about it that bothers you, even if it's a family member doing it in the house?

I'm not sure why it bothered me back then. It doesn't really now. I guess because I was unfamiliar with it. It seemed odd. Like if someone suddenly dropped their pants in front of everyone. I don't have a good explanation, except that I considered them privates, and you shouldn't show privates in public.
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10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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#13
RE: Your Sentiments on Breast Feeding in Public
Purely aesthetic reasons why I have a problem with it under certain circumstances. I don't like to be treated to bodily functions in restaurants. But I have the same problem with kissing. It simply disgusts me when I'm eating.

So, purely aesthetic. Keep it away from my dinner and we won't have a problem.
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#14
RE: Your Sentiments on Breast Feeding in Public
The notion that this could even be a hot topic
appears absurd to me. In particularly the US, but also some people around here, have a hopelessly unhealthy relationship to the human body. I blame the puritans.
It's a damn baby eating, if you are overcome by disgust, or unclean thoughts, or disgust at your unclean thoughts, at the sight of babies drinking, that really is your problem.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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#15
RE: Your Sentiments on Breast Feeding in Public
Why particularly the US? Or local version of christianity is based on puritanism. You can show a child a scene of violence on TV, but a passionate kiss will jack up the rating.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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#16
RE: Your Sentiments on Breast Feeding in Public
(September 14, 2015 at 5:57 pm)Alex K Wrote: The notion that this could even be a hot topic
appears absurd to me. In particularly the US, but also some people around here, have a hopelessly unhealthy relationship to the human body. I blame the puritans.
It's a damn baby eating, if you are overcome by disgust, or unclean thoughts, or disgust at your unclean thoughts, at the sight of babies drinking, that really is your problem.

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#17
RE: Your Sentiments on Breast Feeding in Public
Oh... feeding a kid when he's hungry and you're both outside... what can go wrong?
Is the boob showing? for a tiny fraction of a second, yeah... then it gets a hungry mouth covering it.
Women are usually a bit coy and lift their shirts so as to cover the area above the breasts... and the baby covers the area below. Usually, you can only see a bit of the mammary gland's outer skin covering..... but how is that different from seeing some nice cleavage? Beats me.

Oh, and there are such things as "breastfeeding bras" out there.
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#18
RE: Your Sentiments on Breast Feeding in Public
Quote:"Bring it on."


Dubya Bush
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#19
RE: Your Sentiments on Breast Feeding in Public
(September 14, 2015 at 5:57 pm)Alex K Wrote: The notion that this could even be a hot topic
appears absurd to me. In particularly the US, but also some people around here, have a hopelessly unhealthy relationship to the human body. I blame the puritans.
It's a damn baby eating, if you are overcome by disgust, or unclean thoughts, or disgust at your unclean thoughts, at the sight of babies drinking, that really is your problem.

Bravo!
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#20
RE: Your Sentiments on Breast Feeding in Public
My reaction to anyone objecting to breast feeding; grow the fuck up.

oh my God! a pair of boobs! how shocking! Like most women and quite a lot of men don't have pair, it's just boobs...

And if it was a glamour model with her tits out for your titillation on page 3, you wouldn't be complaining. I think some people have this idea that the only purpose of boobs is for sexual arousal. Breasts are essential for the survival of infants among mammals, and breast feeding still has great health benefits for human children today.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable."
- Maryam Namazie

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