Breastfeeding Challenge?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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First of all I wasn’t really sure where to post this, so I just put it here…

The following are excerpts from a conversation between two (un-named) dopers overheard by a doper, inspired by this upcoming event:

“Come ‘latch on’ at the Hawaii Breastfeeding Challenge!”
“A challenge to bring together the greatest number of moms and babies to breastfeed at the same time.”

Doper 1: Oooh wouldn’t that be a sight!
Doper 2: I want a free breastfeeding T-shirt…
Doper 1: I hate it when I see a woman breastfeeding in public. I think it is so gross.
Doper 2: Yeah, I mean, if the kid’s gotta eat, the kid’s gotta eat, but be prepared and bring a bottle or something, 'ya know?
Doper 1: Yeah, pump your breasts in the privacy of your home, and bring a bottle…geez. What is so hard about that?
Doper 1: It’s like it’s some sort of “statement”…my statement is to keep your tits in your shirt in public, please. We’re not cavemen anymore.
Doper 2: Well I just don’t think there should be a double standard.
Doper 1: huh?
Doper 2: If it’s socially ok to show your tits in public, knock yourself out…but if it’s not, it is most certainly not acceptable to pop your boobs out in a crowded lobby and start squirting milk out of them into the mouth of a little shit factory.
[laughing, laughing, more laughing]
Doper 2: I’m all for smacking people upside the head when they try and put jeans on the statue of David and whatnot, but, in general, I think it’s just sort of polite to keep most of your biological functions to yourself, especially if they involve your naughty bits. I mean if it’s socially unacceptable to belch in public, then breastfeeding is way over the top.
Doper 1: Can you imagine, you’re just staying at your hotel on vacation in Hawaii, minding your own business, then all of a sudden there’s hundreds of women with their boobs hanging out with little leaches (a.k.a babies) hanging off them? Geez.

Thoughts? Comments? Bring 'em on! :smiley:

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I am a staunch advocate of anything concerning breastesses…

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Hmmm, so you want us to comment on an second-hand recollection of a conversation that may or may not have occured between people we may or may not know? :dubious:

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What kind of comments do you seek, anyway?

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Well, I would venture that Doper 1 and Doper 2 are either clueless 17 year old boys or disturbingly misguided adults. Calling babies leeches, saying that moms “start squirting milk out of them into the mouth of a little shit factory” is , well, words fail me. Misogynists-in-training?

I would assume the event, bizarre as it is, is intended to promote breastfeeding, which is the naturally-intended method of feeding infants, with pumped breastmilk from a bottle being second, and formula third. (All three methods can result in healthy, happy babies, though; I don’t want to get into breast/bottle debate.)

Anyway, my WAG is that there are many moms in Hawaii that are electing to formula-feed due to agressive promotion by formula companies (“the first taste is free”) and the fact that WIC pays for it.

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Nurturing in public – fine.
Sex in public – Eeeeuuww

Most women I know who breastfeed are pretty discrete about it in public places.

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That OP is a wonderful example of overly-stereotyped arguments against breast-feeding in public. I shudder to think of one of our own (let alone TWO) actually advancing such blatantly fallacious and obnoxious arguments against eating in public.