Letters to the Editor
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Not exactly
"again how a nursing mom is denying anyone their right to occupy a public space?"
Nobody ever said nursing moms are denying anyone their right to occupy a public space. What was said, at least in my case, was that the rights of nursing moms in the public sphere don't trump everybody else's rights in the public sphere,
It was a nice red herring though. Better luck next time.
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Proving Bill right...
"Having a child is not really a choice, we need to reproduce, just because you hate the human race and wish we would all die out does not mean it's going to happen."
Now, now, be nice. Thank you for keeping the species going. What would the human race do without your selfless contribution? I'm sure the main thing on your mind when you decided to have a baby was the fate of the human race. I shudder to think where we would be without your help. Where should I send your medal?
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Many breastfed babies won't take a bottle. Bill Maher dated Superhead, what do you expect?
It's actually pretty common. They'll continue to cry and hold out. Even if they took a bottle once a day before, some just seem to reject the bottle. If the baby has allergies, or a head cold, or just plain doesn't want it, you are SOL.
Breastfeeding in a car is just downright painful. I have contorted my back to do that on a cross country trip with a 3 month old. I had backaches for days. It's hot, and it's hard for the baby to latch on (that's painful).
I've breastfed in bathrooms (my child is 5 months old) and had perverted women complain that I was not covered up. IN THE FUCKING BATHROOM! FOr some people, nothing but invisibility will do.
My baby's need to eat outweighs your discomfort. A dehydrated baby faces a number of life threatening illnesses. Sometimes I have to leave the house, and take the baby with me. Sometimes people need to get over themselves. A nursing baby is NOT hurting them.
The problem with leftists is too much narcissism from the "anti-breeder" crowd. Ironically, I've NEVER had a conservative give me hell for breastfeeding, and I've had many ask why I didn't just nurse out of the bathroom.
Maher dated Karen "Superhead" Steffens, the most narcisstic idiot on the face of the Earth. He needs to shut it.
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@KStone
"What's really amazing is that some people think their right to the public space trumps everybody else's right to the public space"
Ok, to be symantically correct, how does my nursing a baby "trump [your] right to the public space"? What "right" of yours is being trrumped? Your "right" to not see anything at all that might offend your fastidious sensibilities, about the human body, or grammar?
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@KStone 2
There are plenty of people here who say nursing in public is gross, offensive and self-aggrandizing. There are several posters who say that nursing moms should "just" bring a bottle when in public, or should stay home instead of nursing in public. There are several posters eho say that women should nurse in the bathroom instead. There are even posters who have suggested that all mothers are narcissists whose only thought, then nursing a baby, is bout how wonderful the mother is, and not about anything else, and more than one poster who has red to mothers as "breeders."
I think I can accurately call thse posters "anti-public-nursers" and the "breeder" folks just plain anti-woman.
Herring it may be, but it ain't red.
As for you, I think you're being disingenuious. I call your "if she'd only been more discreet" idea a figleaf. Clearly, a blanket is not enough for those who want the women to stay ome. Staying home isn't enough for the likes of BBWlover who doesn't think children are worth having. So, if we are now to all modify our public begavior to the most prudish among us, where can we get our Burquas?
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Why is flashing your panties ok and public nursing not?
The same people defending the micro-mini girl on Southwest see breastfeeding as intimate and disturbing. I don't get it. She flashed her panties on national TV (and evidently more on the plane), and Southwest was crucified for asking her to change in consideration of other customers. A nursing mother fumbles for a second, or the baby pushes at the blanket. The manager asks her to be "more discrete" (which means what here? use a blanket so you can't see if the baby loses the latch? go to the one stall bathroom and block it? pull her blouse down? The woman gets cricified by some of the same people. For some people, a baby under a blanket is STILL obscene, and they can't tolerate even that sight.
Babies wiggle. They don't cooperate. If they latch on themselves it hurts like hell. Some tolerate blankets. Some don't.
Why do adults think babies should dehydrate or tolerate the pain of the extra gas a bottle causes a breastfeeding infant so their sensibilities are soothed? Shouldn't ADULTS accommodate BABIES at a FAMILY restaurant?
The me decade went to far. Too many adults feel too entitled, and don't want to share with kids.
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Silly domini
See, the Southwest chick was "hot." The breastfeeding woman might not be. How can you not get it that the universe revolves around these people and their right to see only what pleases them? I mean, if life were really fair, unhot women, babies, old people, gay men, etc. wouldn't even be allowed out in public.
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ha ha ha
Proving Bill right...
"Having a child is not really a choice, we need to reproduce, just because you hate the human race and wish we would all die out does not mean it's going to happen."
"Now, now, be nice. Thank you for keeping the species going. What would the human race do without your selfless contribution? I'm sure the main thing on your mind when you decided to have a baby was the fate of the human race. I shudder to think where we would be without your help. Where should I send your medal?"
That's funny, I don't have any kids. Nor do I really plan on having any, I haven't quite made up my mind. But way to avoid it KStone, it is not possible that something necessary to the continuance of the species is a choice like picking out what blouse to wear or what college to go to or to not go at all. Do you want a medal for not having kids? Not having children doesn't mean I don't understand that I was breastfed and that my mother being a single mom meant, gasp, she had to leave the house with babies in tow and I'd be pretty angry if anyone gave my mother shit for feeding me without a blanket over my head or because she has large breasts so my, or my brothers heads didn't cover her whole boob when her nursing bras were dirty. I don't really think the last 50 years or so of available birth control automatically made reproduction a choice. Reproduction is a necessity that a small percent of humans choose to opt out of, but unless you've opted out of sex altogether, then you haven't quite opted out of reproducing either until you hit menopause. I have absolutely no sympathy or patience for fuckwads who think public breastfeeding is a problem for your eyes or your sensibilities because basically you are saying my mother should have never left her house and for that because none of us would tolerate blankets over our heads, you win the asshole medal. Where can I send it?