Huh, social change that I think would be great but which I’m arguing against? 
I’m not arguing against social change to make public breast-feeding more acceptable, I’m just saying that right now it isn’t, and so I hope that breast-feeding mothers will keep this in mind, that’s all.
Would you like to go around everywhere in a diaper?
What? You wouldn’t? Really?
So why should your baby?
The nurturing and well-being of a baby is vastly more important than catering to the irrational sensibilities of cretins.
Why is somebody who is bothered by seeing a woman breast-feeding her baby a cretin?
It’s actually very similar to home-schooling, only many times hotter.
I thought it was a perverse affection for Homestar Runner.
When I breast feed in public, most often it is in a fast food restaurant. I don’t usually take Loren out to eat, and I have avoided nicer restaurants with her for a variety of reasons. Until just this month, she was not able to sit well in a high chair, and so either she had to stay in her car seat, or someone had to hold her. If I go out to a nice restaurant, I want to enjoy my meal, the ambience, and pleasant conversation, not desparately try to entertain someone too young to appreciate any of those things.
But a fast food restaurant? Have any of you complaining about a flash of breast in a fast food restaurant been to one lately? The patrons are often noisier than a screaming baby, and often expose many bits of flesh in either repulsive or alluring ways. They often engage in horseplay and loud jocular conversations that don’t bear repeating. In doing all these things, they do not seem to be trying to be rude and their behavior does not seem to offend many there. I have noticed that when children are around, the language of the adults and near adults is cleaner, so there is indication that these people are not intentionally rude, but really general behavior in these places is not up to any reasonable standard that includes breastfeeding as a disruptive exhibition.
Wow, the first time a thread’s ever been hijacked (well, semi-hijacked) away from homosexuality.
Res ipsa loquitor.
The delivery method is different, but they are both food. Whether it’s eaten from a fork or a nipple, neither belong in the bathroom.
I agree that a breastfeeding woman should be as discrete as possible and the mother should be sensitive to those around her who may feel uncomfortable. Personally, I’d rather use a nursing room (my former company had nursing rooms in their new building, just a private room with a bench and I believe a phone) or some other alternative. But feeding in a bathroom is disgusting.
One other note on feeding in the bathroom. Where the heck do you think the mom is going to sit to feed the baby? Most public restrooms don’t come with a couch, so that pretty much leaves sitting on the toliet. Public toliets have no lids. So, sit clothed on an open toilet? That’s disgusting and really quite uncomfortable.
My apologies to DeaganTheWolf. Not all who are squimish about breastfeeding in public are repressed fuckheads. Just intolerant ones who go shooting of their mouths like the OP. Sorry again, I let myself get carried away because, after all, this is the Pit.
Well, thanks for pointing out the funniest stereotype about silly women I have ever seen. Not only do they HAVE to breastfeed, they NEED to talk on the phone whilst doing so.
Didn’t have time to read the whole OP or any of the thread but I agree that Breast-feeders and Homosexuals should just get along.
Here’s your club, milroyj, the cave is that way ----->
So, now you’re calling me a cretin in Latin? Wow, your debating skills and level of maturity are truly something to behold.
If you can’t understand why an attitude is cretinous then I can’t explain it to you.
if that’s the case then BK has the right to ask the mother to take it elsewhere since it would be considered ‘outside food’ 
Of all the accusations levelled aginst me in this thread - the one that hurts the most is that I was rude. I do apologise sincerely to all members of the SMDB for starting a rant before leaving for the weekend. I didn’t know 
Humbly I must admit that Joel has said what I wanted to say in a much more eloquant and obviously less inflammatory way. Thank you.
Nice positive attitude there Equipoise. I’m pretty sure I had an image of you when I posted initially. Someone who is not prepared to come halfway and help society as a whole move forward. Just sit in your legally enshrined trench of righteousness and eventually it’ll happen without you.
Which it will I think. I hope. Hopefully one day we’ll be able to, as Soup_du_jour succintly put it :
… take courses of action that minimize the uncomfortableness of others
Even if it means not doing something that you legally can.
So for some - that would mean me shutting the heck up 
Thanks for the toasty welcome. 
Oh, but you are.
There is one thing and only one thing that will normalize breastfeeding again…public and otherwise. Simply put:
more women will have to be willing to suffer the assholes and just do it.
Because babies are the cutest thing ever, and breasts are pretty damn cute too, and because I can’t understand any other kind of reaction to seeing someone breastfeeding other than “Aww. That’s sweet.” 
Like I said, I agree with you.
I am not saying that the woman should stop feeding her baby because of the hang-ups of various patrons of a Burger King.
If the woman knew that some folks would take offense to what she was doing, and she had an alternative that wouldn’t cause her any inconvenience, she should have done differently. If, on the other hand, she didn’t know that her actions would be interpereted as uncouth, or if the alternative caused her inconvenience, than she’s well within her bounds to breastfeed as she did.
But if the question is between two equally meritous options, one of them involving catering to cretins and the other not catering to cretins, it would simply be foolish to choose the latter. Pissing people off for no good reason, even pissing off idiots for no good reason, is not something to be lauded.
Notice I said “for no good reason.” Feeding a baby is a bloody good reason.
Oh, and Joel. “Res ipsa loquitor” means “The thing speaks for itself,” meaning that the explaination seems self-evident. For instance…
A: “Joe punched my grandmother in the stomach today for no good reason. What a jerk!”
B: “Why does that make him a jerk?”
A: “Res ipsa loquitor.”