They’re usually a bunch of self-important bitches who think that because they want to take their boob out in front of the world, everyone else should be okay with it.
Take for instance this story from Gothamist:
“I was at a Petco and they told me to go to the bathroom because it was making the customers uncomfortable,” said Jessica Pierre, 30. “I told them, ‘You don’t eat lunch in the bathroom and neither will my daughter.’”
Not for nothing, stupid, but I don’t eat lunch out of your tit either.
As I said this is the inherent problem. It’s not breastfeeding in itself. Most women are quite respectful when breastfeeding their kids. They do it calmly and discreetly (check out the United Airlines story in the same post) and go out of their way to make other people comfortable. In direct contrast, you have someone like Jessica Pierre who has to draw a comparison between an adult eating a burger and a baby suckling a tit. In her mind its the same thing.
No one should be harassed for breastfeeding their kid.
However, people who breastfeed should also realize that what they’re doing, while perfectly natural to themm, may actually make other people uncomfortable. It’s a simple fact of life and I’ve always been taught you should, within reason, try not to makke other people uncomfortable.
Maybe I was just raised different.
[tags]breastfeeding, annoying, stupid[/tags]