Parenting magazine NSFW?

Well, I certainly agree she should show some respect for others by covering the baby and breast with a blanket of some sort. That's fairly common for most women breastfeeding in public.
That's what I was talking about - not what Hondo was talking about. Nice kneejerk reaction there Hondo.

 

Don't get me started on those drunken sluts and skanks, and the pimps who put their idiotic excesses on DVDs.

 

She was kind of covered. But even then, it's awkward, it's uncomfortable.

 

For some reasons, these societal arguments always take the spectrum approach ... one extreme or another. There's always ways things can be done discreetly, like covering up while you're breast-feeding, but it's not always practical to say, "Go somewhere private to do that." If I'm a mom and my kid's hungry, avert your freaking eyes because feeding my kids is more important than your easily-offended puritanical sensibilities.

It's like the freaking channel button on a TV. You don't have to fucking watch.

 

Dude, it's a baby. So yeah, the odds are just as good that the kid is sucking on an arm. Or that it isn't sucking at all. And a kid that age very likely isn't looking at anything in particular, maybe a flashy color or a person or shadow.

Yeah, a strange woman with her breast out might be a bit uncomfortable for you. Lots of uncomfortable situations in life. But like all the rest of them, a woman breast feeding is part of life. Not that big of a deal.

 

If we want to make more things taboo in the country because they're "uncomfortable" to watch, I think we ought to ban public nose picking, cutting your nails in public, farting in public, wearing wife beaters when you have a spare tire, hairy legs and underarms and people who wear too much cologne. Cause all those things make me uncomfortable.

 

Not to make it political, because really, it's an issue that impacts all segments of the population without regard to race, class, political affiliation.......

BUT

Here's my problem.

The Bush Administration is running the ads showing pregnant women riding mechanical bulls, bungee jumping, etc. saying, "You wouldn't do this while pregnant... Why bottle feed your baby?" (As if moms who adopt are doing the equivalent of bungee jumping with their kids.)

But look.......... Everybody agrees breast milk is best - and I've got no problem with the Bush Admin pointing out how great it is.

So why, then, did the Republicans fight tooth and nail against the Family and Medical Leave Act, which mandates a minimum of 12 weeks maternity leave??

I think many moms want to continue to breastfeed after they go back to work. To do that, you have to pump in order to keep the supply up.

Why won't lawmakers reward companies that (A) Give employees who nurse a private place to pump and (B) Give nursing customers a private place to feed?

The way I've heard it explained by my mom-friends.......... You don't want to breastfeed in a bathroom. "I wouldn't want to eat a meal in the bathroom, why would I want my baby to?"

Either the government should encourage breastfeeding and back it up by taking real steps to support it-- or keep its mouth shut.

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As for the photo, I think it's beautiful, but sometimes seeing it in person is a little jarring. Again..... Reward the companies that help the nursing moms by giving them some privacy.

 

I like boobies.

That said, does it strike anyone else as inconsistent that I can be given a ticket and fined for urinating in public but people breast feed out in the open.

Breat feedin doesn't make me that uncomfortable. But I do love to pee outside, and would do it a lot more if it were legal.

 

Not to argue, but who are you feeding when you pee outside? Or inside, for that matter.

Actually, don't answer. Not sure I want to know. :-X

 

Ergo, that is why it is not legal.

 

Pastor, Little Man's Daddy, thank you for calling me "Puritanical" because I represent a point that dares to run counter to yours.

 

But peeing outside isn't illegal because of the pee, right? It's illegal because of the exposure of naughty bits.

Which I think is silly.

Perhaps I'll run for President on a pro-breast-feeding; pro-drunken outdoor piss platform.