Letters to the Editor
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Fetboy is one of these repulsive dishrags
Typical Fetboy rant "Women are perfection indeed! Men are imperfect beasts who need to be put down. Fuck me please. Now."
All he is doing is refilling the ranks of man haters into the next generation.
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@Anonymous
leftychris is the new blowhard here at broadsheet. He pushes propaganda and BS with no legitimate argument to backup his pontifications.
Aww, I'm hurt, Anonymous. I take seriously criticisms from people who can't even bother to think up an individually identifiable handle! Or are you a covert second voice for my silly buddy fetboy?
Examples, please, from this thread. Propaganda? What exactly did I write that was propaganda? Do you even know what the word means? And since when is it bullshit to criticize the deeply-flawed, male-bashing "theory" proposed by another poster? Gee, lemme guess--you're an ideological bedfellow of fetboy, so anything critical of his stance automatically becomes propaganda bullshit. I get it!
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Give Stiletto TWO Stars
It's True That Breastfeeding Is Not Like Masturbating, Urinating or Defecating
But it is EXACTLY like one thing: fellatio.
Mother's milk is a bodily fluid, and so is semen. So according to several LWs' line of reasoning, my lady should be able to suck my cock in public. As long as she swallows.
He solved the whole article in my view. Why shouldn't a man receive a BJ in public too?
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The world does not stop for you while you breastfeed, part 2.
The point that I and Bill Maher are trying to make is that the "lactivists" are pushing an agenda that says that women should be able to breastfeed anywhere and anytime. They think that children should be the absolute first priority of everyone. Anyone who disagrees is labeled a selfish jerk, perhaps with psychological issues regarding sex, breasts, and/or their mothers.
My point is that if you can't go out of your home with your child for an extended period of time and be able to meet its needs without inconveniencing others, then maybe you don't go out. Having a kid means you make sacrifices. Its your fault that you are in public and your baby is hungry.
While I don't find breastfeeding "icky," I do find using your baby in a public protest distasteful.
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Bill Maher did not compare breastfeeding to masturbation. He was debating the idea that if it is natural it should acceptable. That is not the same as saying that breastfeeding is the same as masturbation.
(As an aside-I fully support a womans right to breastfeed in public uncovered and not in a bathroom.)
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Oh please
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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what Freud said
It’s not about breastfeeding. It’s about you - that is, your discomfort with your own sexuality.
That’s all.
Now grow up, or at least stop projecting your blocked development onto others.
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He's absolutely right
So a few women with too much time on their hands and no regard for any real issues for which to protest feel that they have the right to expose themselves in public? Well, how about the rights of EVERYONE ELSE to not have to witness this? Fortunately, most common sense people in the world understand the concept of modesty and choose not to go down this road. Get a life.