Vinnie, thanks for that beautiful, touching story about family love.
I’ve mentioned it before and I’ll probably mention it again.
The ear-twist move works wonders!
Hell, that would mean I could NEVER dine out!
I once worked at a fried chicken restaurant at Sea World in Orlando (my only experience as a fast-food slave/drone/worker). Our problem was that many women breast-fed their babies right at the tables…
Holy shit, is this going to get ugly.
May I be the first to say “so what?” Where should she breastfeed? In the bathroom? The car?
Zette
I’d like to second what Zette said.
Feeding the baby at the table? Really!
Not at all; you explained it well. I just wanted to throw in my two cents 
Some of them didn’t cover up. They just opened their blouses, exposed their breasts for all to see and started nursing.
And this is a problem because…?
When did public nudity become acceptable?
Cripes, it’s not like they tore their blouses off and did table dances, is it? It’s just biology. The kid’s gotta eat, he’s gotta eat. I see no reason for nursing mothers to cater to the prudish.
I was really getting my dander up and getting all prepared to type something cantankerous about “public nudity” versus the inevitability of a nursing breast being visible but I cannot top this succinct, accurate representation of my thoughts.
I realized I didn’t make myself clear. (I’ve been posting in a hurry today.) I had no problem with what the mothers were doing. But some of the other guests did. Trying to please everyone, we had to ask the mothers who were breast-feeding to cover up with a blanket or a sweater or something. It wasn’t a great hardship for them, frankly, and the babies seemed to prefer being in the darkness under the blankets.
It wasn’t as easy to talk to them as you may think, since the majority of the women who were doing this were from other countries and many didn’t speak English. Quite often, I couldn’t communicate with them at all, and just gave up.
Only in America is it fashionable to show cleavage…except if you happen to be nursing a baby. I mean, really, people can look at a calf or a bunch of kittens nursing and think it’s cute. But a human–drinking HUMAN milk? God forbid!
GET OVER IT, PEOPLE!
I admit it, it puts you in a hard position when ignorant squeamish dumbasses expect proprietors to police breastfeeding and remove it from their offended sight. I don’t envy you that.
However, I am terribly curious about that statement of yours I quoted. I get this fantastic mental picture of you ducking your own head under the blanket, cooing at the little tykes and asking them in baby talk if that’s not much better, cootchie cootchie coo.
YOu seem to be missing something-the primary purpose of breasts is to FEED. They’re basically giant feedbags sitting on our chests.
God, that would make a good sig.
I’d also like to point out that in most states (at least every state I’ve ever lived in), breastfeeding in public is legal and is exempt from public nudity laws.
If it bothers you, try this fun mental exercise. Instead of picturing a BOOB! A tit! Like you can sometimes see on those chicks on Skinemax! Oh My God!.. picture a big ol’ feedbag hanging off her chest. Because, functionally, that’s what it is.
Which explains why adults routinely drape a blanket over the head of a baby before giving it a bottle :rolleyes:
Yeah, totnak loved having a blanket over his head. He could pull it off and laugh. Then I’d replace it, and he’d pull it off and laugh again. All the while not latching on, of course, which meant the ol’ nipple was hangin’ there in full view, instead of being covered as it necessarily is when the kid is hooked up. But I’m sure that made a nice peep show for everyone watching, before I said the hell with it, anyone who doesn’t want to see can mind his own fuckin’ business. Thank gawd I didn’t have to go through that nonsense on this side of the Atlantic.
Just had this pointed out . .
“Look, of course I’m a little over the top here, and do advocate excessive violence at children.”
Of course, what I meant was I do NOT advocate excessive violence at children. :o