(September 16, 2015 at 9:30 am)lkingpinl Wrote:

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(September 14, 2015 at 5:26 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I guess this is supposed to be a hot topic right now (at least in the US), which I don't understand because I see nothing offensive about the sight of a mother nursing her baby. 

People also bring up the double standard, where it's ok to be out in super low cut tops and to have billboard advertisement pictures of women in a bra, but not ok to breast feed your kid in public. Personally I don't have a problem with either. 

Anyway, I wanted to know what you guys thought. If anyone here has an issue with public breastfeeding, and why.

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Not a problem with it personally so long as it's done in good taste.  Most mothers do it under a blanket or throw for their own modesty and privacy, but it's a natural life process.  

I actually heard someone argue about how breastfeeding in public should be illegal just as public urination is.  Apparently this guy got arrested for peeing in an alley as a police car rolled by.  No one else see him just the cop.  He argued with the cop that what he was doing is a natural thing and no one was around to be offended but a mother can nurse her baby on a park bench.  I don't equate the two, but I give him props for trying.

The analogy completely fails because the guy is leaving urine on the ground.  If he took it with him, his analogy would be better, but otherwise, the place can smell of urine for some time afterwards.  Just go down into the subway in New York on a hot summer day, and if you have entered the wrong station, you will get the point very well.  The first time I rode the subway in New York was a very hot summer day, and the stench of urine was so great I almost wished someone would knife me to put me out of my misery, but the subway is not as dangerous as some people seem to believe.

Now, if a woman were squirting her milk on the ground, she, too, should get arrested, as that would probably stink up the place as well.

(September 16, 2015 at 11:47 am)Pyrrho Wrote:

(September 16, 2015 at 9:30 am)lkingpinl Wrote:

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Not a problem with it personally so long as it's done in good taste.  Most mothers do it under a blanket or throw for their own modesty and privacy, but it's a natural life process.  

I actually heard someone argue about how breastfeeding in public should be illegal just as public urination is.  Apparently this guy got arrested for peeing in an alley as a police car rolled by.  No one else see him just the cop.  He argued with the cop that what he was doing is a natural thing and no one was around to be offended but a mother can nurse her baby on a park bench.  I don't equate the two, but I give him props for trying.

The analogy completely fails because the guy is leaving urine on the ground.  If he took it with him, his analogy would be better, but otherwise, the place can smell of urine for some time afterwards.  Just go down into the subway in New York on a hot summer day, and if you have entered the wrong station, you will get the point very well.  The first time I rode the subway in New York was a very hot summer day, and the stench of urine was so great I almost wished someone would knife me to put me out of my misery, but the subway is not as dangerous as some people seem to believe.

Now, if a woman were squirting her milk on the ground, she, too, should get arrested, as that would probably stink up the place as well.

Yes I agree this is indeed where the similarity fails.  It's purpose.  

BTW, I know EXACTLY what you mean by the smell in the subway stations in the summer.  Was there about 4 years ago in July and was at 96th street in Manhattan and one of the stairwells was so awful I nearly gagged.

(September 16, 2015 at 11:47 am)Pyrrho Wrote:

(September 16, 2015 at 9:30 am)lkingpinl Wrote:

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Not a problem with it personally so long as it's done in good taste.  Most mothers do it under a blanket or throw for their own modesty and privacy, but it's a natural life process.  

I actually heard someone argue about how breastfeeding in public should be illegal just as public urination is.  Apparently this guy got arrested for peeing in an alley as a police car rolled by.  No one else see him just the cop.  He argued with the cop that what he was doing is a natural thing and no one was around to be offended but a mother can nurse her baby on a park bench.  I don't equate the two, but I give him props for trying.

The analogy completely fails because the guy is leaving urine on the ground.  If he took it with him, his analogy would be better, but otherwise, the place can smell of urine for some time afterwards.  Just go down into the subway in New York on a hot summer day, and if you have entered the wrong station, you will get the point very well.  The first time I rode the subway in New York was a very hot summer day, and the stench of urine was so great I almost wished someone would knife me to put me out of my misery, but the subway is not as dangerous as some people seem to believe.

Now, if a woman were squirting her milk on the ground, she, too, should get arrested, as that would probably stink up the place as well.

I dunno... I think it'd still be wrong if he peed in a bucket in public and then took it with him. The difference between the 2, and why they can't be compared, is because there's a difference between eating and peeing/pooping lol. We don't all go to the same building to take dumps together over conversation, now do we?

(September 16, 2015 at 11:55 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:

(September 16, 2015 at 11:47 am)Pyrrho Wrote: The analogy completely fails because the guy is leaving urine on the ground.  If he took it with him, his analogy would be better, but otherwise, the place can smell of urine for some time afterwards.  Just go down into the subway in New York on a hot summer day, and if you have entered the wrong station, you will get the point very well.  The first time I rode the subway in New York was a very hot summer day, and the stench of urine was so great I almost wished someone would knife me to put me out of my misery, but the subway is not as dangerous as some people seem to believe.

Now, if a woman were squirting her milk on the ground, she, too, should get arrested, as that would probably stink up the place as well.

I dunno... I think it'd still be wrong if he peed in a bucket in public and then took it with him. The difference between the 2, and why they can't be compared, is because there's a difference between eating and peeing/pooping lol. We don't all go to the same building to take dumps together over conversation, now do we?

I don't know I still see groups of women carrying their conversation in to the restroom and back out routinely.  I will never get that.  Men don't talk in the bathroom unless it's at the sink.

(September 16, 2015 at 9:24 am)Pyrrho Wrote:

(September 15, 2015 at 10:00 pm)Losty Wrote: Just the title was enough for me.

You must be a dog lover.

Gross. I do humans only.

(September 16, 2015 at 8:51 am)Exian Wrote: I wonder how uniform it tastes. Like if we had breast milk in the cooler at the store, would it be like milk- milk is milk, or would it me like wine. "Ahhhh, 2008 fine year." But instead "Ahhhh yes, a Samantha. Faint notes of nuts and berries."

Likely the second option. What you eat will affect the flavor.

(September 16, 2015 at 9:42 am)Kitan Wrote:

(September 16, 2015 at 9:37 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: It's far beter than being out in public and not feeding your infant when it's hungry.

That is why the woman brings a bottle.

Why should a woman have to stay home if she doesn't want to give her baby a bottle? Breast feeding is healthier for the baby and the mother.

....I just really don't care ^_^

(September 16, 2015 at 11:55 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:

(September 16, 2015 at 11:47 am)Pyrrho Wrote: The analogy completely fails because the guy is leaving urine on the ground.  If he took it with him, his analogy would be better, but otherwise, the place can smell of urine for some time afterwards.  Just go down into the subway in New York on a hot summer day, and if you have entered the wrong station, you will get the point very well.  The first time I rode the subway in New York was a very hot summer day, and the stench of urine was so great I almost wished someone would knife me to put me out of my misery, but the subway is not as dangerous as some people seem to believe.

Now, if a woman were squirting her milk on the ground, she, too, should get arrested, as that would probably stink up the place as well.

I dunno... I think it'd still be wrong if he peed in a bucket in public and then took it with him. The difference between the 2, and why they can't be compared, is because there's a difference between eating and peeing/pooping lol. We don't all go to the same building to take dumps together over conversation, now do we?

I think it depends very much on the particular circumstances.  If there is no public restroom available to him, well, when one has to go, one has to go.  Also, people can go out in public with catheters in them.  Typically they then are carrying their urine with them in a container outside of their bodies.  That can be done in a way such that others will not normally notice.

What I don't about breastfeeding in public is that most of the time you can't see anything! The kid covers up most of what the fundies and other dummies are freaking out about. The most you see is a little side boob.