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Originally Posted by kikidee
Great article, and amazing pictures. Those were neat to see - thanks for posting about your article, I'm glad I got to see that.  |
Jen is a great writer but it is NOT a great article because of her inaccurate portrayal of public breastfeeding being ‘Normal” mid 20th century. They are lovely photos but they have nothing to do with breastfeeding being “normal” in public.
A few photos taken out of context does not mean that public nursing was "Normal" when in reality mid 20th century and most of women’s history it was socially taboo for women in the USA to breastfeed in a public setting and there were still indecency laws on the law books (these laws have only changed in the past ten years!). Indecency laws were rarely enforced; however women did risk getting ticketed for breastfeeding in public, so it was not “normal” and was not the good old days as she claims.
Today we are living the good days for public breastfeeding, and it is getting better each time we stand up and demand that we have the Right to have a public life with our nursing children!