[Delta]

This is a spinoff on BW latest comments.

I get soooooo annoyed when people make comments about how they don't mind breastfeeders around them as long as they are modest and cover up, as if we are taking our freaking shirts off and flailing our boobs around or something.

Ugh! It is so infuriating.

I just canNOT imagine that the woman breastfeeding her baby across from Barbara Walters on the plane was really that exposed. In her original comments BW complained that the mom did not cover herself with a blanket.

This is so irritating and just...people who don't bf have no idea what they are talking about, basically.

First, my kid would never eat with a blanket over him. Plus, a blanket just draws more attention to what you are doing anyway. BW must really have had to crane her neck and look hard to see any boob if the woman was sitting across the aisle from her, so why in the heck did she care if she had a blanket over her.

Everyone has their own standards for what is modest and discreet, so to me that caveat means NOTHING and it just...condescending and...ugh!!

 

[Quindin]

I agree
Using the "modesty" talk is only for the benefit of the people uncomfortable with breastfeeding itself.

They can always claim you are not "modest" enough because it is such a subjective thing.

NIP should be protected by law in all states with no little "modesty" clause attached to it...

 

[ExuberantDaffodil]

As I've said before, many people are uncomfortable with breastfeeding in general, despite a mother's level of being discreet. If someone like BW *knows* what you are doing, he/she becomes uncomfortable regardless of if he/she can actually see anything. That is the problem I have with the whole "modesty" outrage.... I think modesty if only brought up because anti BFers can't think of anything rational to their arguement.

 

[lauraess]

Okay, So I've been exchanging e mails with Lydia Lovric from the newspaper ("the sun" ???)-- her article on lactivists chilling out-right?
so, anyway she is very pro-bfing and has told me she want to have 3 or 4 kids and stay at home, she is doing her research on bfing and has learned a lot from her sister who has nursed her 1st till 18 mo old, and new baby now.
Her main argument and problem is with us "blatant" bfers who pull down swim-suits, nurse in groc. aisles and do not retire to private rooms or cars.
She thinks she will be able to plan her errands to work with the bfing -- which is great- it can be done some of the time if you have a compliant baby who is not 'needy', sure. She also thinks that us blatant bfers turn off some women to bfing. Of course, I told her there would be other reasons these women would have in addition to that to choose to not bf.
She doesnt see how people wearing very revealing clothes makes it okay to "indiscreetly" nurse- in the comparison we have over hip-huggers and thongs vs. nip. Well, I attempted to explain that one doesnt make the other okay. They just are in there own right. Sexy is sexy and bfing is nurturing.
I followed that up with mention of values and minds being warped.
Honestly, she seems very rational; I really hope she can get over her body issues or whatever it is.
~L