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Originally Posted by Mama Poot  The way some nursing moms are being treated is almost like black people/AA's were treated when segregation was still legal. Separate rooms for breastfeeding? Being told to "do that elsewhere" or "go to the bathroom to do that" Can we say black and white lunch counters??? Does anyone else feel this way?? I think this is SERIOUS civil rights problem and it needs to be addressed- preferrably at a federal and constitutional level. It should be a CRIME to tell nursing mothers to "go elsewhere" just like it would be if a business denied services to people on the color of their skin.
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Blacks were legally separated from the whites, completely and legally. Where women are sometimes told to breastfeed is sometimes offensive, but they are allowed access to everything and everywhere people who don't breastfeed are allowed to go. No one could have ever said to a black person, "Go eat in the bathroom and come back when you're white." Society's "horror" at having to seem something like breastfeeding (which I think should be allowed anywhere, anytime) applies only during that act. If lactating mothers were separated, that might be closer.
Saying breastfeeding can only be done in a certain place is more like saying people can only smoke cigarettes in certain places. (Yes, I think the two acts are hugely different, but the point is that people are sent someplace only during that time, any other time they can be and go anywhere.)
Breastfeeding, the act, IS being singled out, but it doesn't compare to racial segregation. (And neither are okay.)
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Could not have said it better myself!
