Letters to the Editor
Juliebird
Published Letters: 1769 Editor's Choice: 103
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and by the way, what nudity?
[Read the article: Bill Maher: "Don't show me your tits!" ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Exactly how much of a breast must be bare to be considered "nudity"?
Here is an example of clothes I typically wore for when I was in public with an unweaned baby:
http://www.motherwear.com//cs/openings.cfm
And now go look at Victoria's Secret swimwear:
http://www2.victoriassecret.com/collection/?cgname=OSSWMBIKZZZ&cgnbr=OSSWMBIKZZZ&rfnbr=1232
Oh, right, swimwear in restaurant. Well, here are some clothes from Vicky Secret:
http://www2.victoriassecret.com/collection/?cgname=OSSWMBIKZZZ&cgnbr=OSSWMBIKZZZ&rfnbr=1232
What? Oh, it's not the regular rounded curves you mind, but it the seeing the aureole (the pink part) and the nipple?
How's about "nipple slips" (are they really slips?)
http://thesuperficial.com/fastsearch?tag=LSFW
http://defamer.com/hollywood/movies/more-movie-promotion-dos-and-donts-jessica-albas-fantastic-rack-106645.php
http://www.nippleslips.com/anna-kournikova-nipple-slip.htm
Keep in mind the baby's head is typically positioned very near the breast while the clothing is being arranged, and then the baby's mouth covers the entire nipple, aureole, and some surrounding breast tissue. The baby's head blocks still more breast from view.
Why is it considered "narcisism" if a woman is actually taking care of a child, but not if she's trying to attract sexual attention?
Please spare me the hypocrisy.
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The world does not stop for you while you breastfeed.
[Read the article: Bill Maher: "Don't show me your tits!" ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Indeed. I have yert to met a nursing mother who will announce to a crowded room ofstrangers: "Behold! i m about to breast feed! You must all be in awe of the power of my breasts! Now praise me! But don't look, ya perv!"
But the mom who nurses in public, often does so precisly *because* the world does not stop for hungry babies or nursig moms. Baby's hungry, time to eat.
What none of these anti-nursing mom posters recognize is that they feel similarly entitled to not have any reminders that some babies nurse. These types are grossed out by the idea, and can't seem to get past falsely equating nursing with defecation or sex. Which speaks volumes to the posters' own grossly narcissistic tendencies, not to mention their unhealthy body issues and general immaturity.
Please. Get over *your*selves. My (long since weaned) kindergartner knows better to point and say "Boobies!"
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Oh please
[Read the article: Bill Maher: "Don't show me your tits!" ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No opne has been able to explain how they are inconveniencd by a nursing mom. Exactly how are you aversely impacted? In any real, meaningful way?
Other than you think it's "icky" or "wrong". So many of you seem to think that a woman sitting in a booth nursing her baby is *doing* something to you. What is she *doing* to you? I on't get it.
The argument most seem to use is that you don't want to have to see something you deem unpleasant. Since nursing is not a sex act or an act of urination/defecation, I can not entertain the neuroses of those who see nursing as such. And since a woman has a legal right to nurse in public, sh's commiting no crime.
It all comes down to personal taste. The anti-nursers havedeemed their persnal taste and comfort level is more important than a baby's or its mother. I'm sure these same folks would complain loudly if mom *didn't* nurse the baby, and the hungry baby cried. (Often, when I was in public with my infant, I nursed in order to quiet the baby and thus spare the public her loud shrieking. How selfish of me!) And then, the anti-nursers claim that the nursing mom is a narcissist! It's laughable.
This is the hallark of a self-absorbed person: assuming that a woman across a room from you, who doesn't know you from Adam, is deliberately trying to provoke you. Instead of you saying "I'd rather not look at her nursing her child" and averting your gaze, controlling yoursel, or simply thinking "some people need better manners," you call the manager/waitress/flight attendant over and demand that the mom be "dealt with." And then, when she states she has a legal right to be nusing, you claim that *she* is making a political statement and disrupting the public peace, and expoiting her child to boot.
To nurse or not to nurse in public is up to the personl taste of the nursing mom, not the general public. Personal taste? The choices Joe Public makes in cologne, attire, footwear and music offends me on a regular basis. I find seeing underwear peeking up from lo-rise jeans waistbands distracting and overly personal. Hell, I think the vast majority of lo-rise jeans wearers .... houldn't. Who wants to see someone else's belly? Ugh! Get a room! What a narcissist s/he is, thinking I want to see that! Get a room! Tongue studs! Those are for sex! So, don't wqear them when you're not giving head, because it creeps me out! Ewww! Go do that in private! I am offended by the slogan on your tshirt! I am grossed out that you chew with your mouth open! Omigod, you just double-dipped your potato chip in your salsa! Go do that in the bathroom!
Could you imagine the ridicule I would receive if I actually crusaded against any of the above? I would appear deranged.
Everyone's personal taste is personal. We can't regulate behavior to the most prude common denominator. We can and do enact laws that outlaw behavior we find repugnant. So, if one really is against public breast-feeding, go on record and lobby for its outlaw.
Or, for Pete's sake, if your sensibilities are do delicate, you stay the hell home!
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And a hungry baby will eat under cover.
[Read the article: Bill Maher: "Don't show me your tits!" ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not mine. She would rip the blanket off, throw it on the floor, unlatch and scream at me. It would take many seconds to calm her down enough to relatch her.
Not my definition of "discreet."