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Okay, so it's true, I am writing this having just come out of an argument with my other half, but let's have it while my memory is still fresh. In fact I am going to make a poll, because he insists he is correct about this:
Apparently, as a woman, it is okay for me to breastfeed in my own home and is not pornographic when I am doing that. However, despite the law, he ways that in HIS opinion and in the opinion of the general public of America, breastfeeding in public is obscene and I ought to have to go into a public bathroom or other private area to do it.
Furthermore, if I had "any self respect" I would WANT to do this, apparently. FURTHERMORE, he thinks anyone who has the nuts to "do that" in the middle of a mall should be locked "in the can for a bit"
Oh. My. God. Seriously. We've reached a parenting impasse here I do believe (among other parenting impasses - but this is the worst). But no, according to him, things here in the states aren't the same as in Africa or England (where I'm from) and you can't "get away" with it here...
So I am making a poll. Sure, we're a crunchy site but there are quite a few of us aren't there - so let's all vote and show him that he might not be as enlightened as he thinks.
(Additionally nobody in his family has ever breastfed - his mom bottle fed all her children and his sister had to bottle feed his nephew, and then his own children were all bottle fed as well, so this isn't exactly a huge surprise...)
I hope this is okay to post here. I am just astonished right now that this opinion still exists in this strong way!
Apparently, as a woman, it is okay for me to breastfeed in my own home and is not pornographic when I am doing that. However, despite the law, he ways that in HIS opinion and in the opinion of the general public of America, breastfeeding in public is obscene and I ought to have to go into a public bathroom or other private area to do it.
Furthermore, if I had "any self respect" I would WANT to do this, apparently. FURTHERMORE, he thinks anyone who has the nuts to "do that" in the middle of a mall should be locked "in the can for a bit"
Oh. My. God. Seriously. We've reached a parenting impasse here I do believe (among other parenting impasses - but this is the worst). But no, according to him, things here in the states aren't the same as in Africa or England (where I'm from) and you can't "get away" with it here...
So I am making a poll. Sure, we're a crunchy site but there are quite a few of us aren't there - so let's all vote and show him that he might not be as enlightened as he thinks.
(Additionally nobody in his family has ever breastfed - his mom bottle fed all her children and his sister had to bottle feed his nephew, and then his own children were all bottle fed as well, so this isn't exactly a huge surprise...)
I hope this is okay to post here. I am just astonished right now that this opinion still exists in this strong way!
