Mothers Fight for Right to Breastfeed at Stadium

[annettemarie]

http://news.webindia123.com/news/sho...0810&cat=World

Women's rights attorney and former New England Patriots cheerleader Wendy Murphy said the issue is almost laughable.

We love naked breasts as long as they are jiggling in front of us for titillation, for sexual excitement and for entertainment, Murphy said. But put a naked breast in front of them that is providing nutrition to an infant -- and that's too offensive.

[MamaFae]

Doesn't it make you wonder what rock the security people in these places have been living under? I swear there is one story after another where it is the security guards that are responsible for asking a nursing mother to cover up, leave, or go to the bathroom. :

The training they receive must be atrocious if they don't know by now it is ok for a woman to feed her child where ever she is. (in most cases)

Just ranting grrr.

N~

[annettemarie]

Maybe it's like doctor training- they just don't really talk about breastfeeding.

[katebleu]

they don't talk about bfing and they don't want to. i think it makes them uncomfortable because they have to realize how much they objectify and sexualize women and breast.

i've never really had a problem at seafco field here in seattle, in that no one has ever said anything to me. even at the last couple of games where dd was bfing and watching the game, leaving me quite exposed. i keep joking that i'm trying to get the local station that airs the games in trouble with the fcc. (we tend to sit in pretty obvious outfield seats.) although at the last game twenty-something guy next to mee switched seats with his girlfriend after a prolonged bfing/exposing session during the first inning. but he didn't say anything.

we will be bfing at the football stadium here in about a month. it might be easier to bf necause it will be colder and we'll hae more to cover up up, but football is also a lot more rowdy and male so i don't know. i might bring solids as a distraction. dd has been preferring to eat as the adults do lately anyway.