Breastfeeding Mom Graduation Photo From Down Under Goes Viral

[PaulConventionWV]

You're sitting in a restaurant eating dinner. A woman at the table next to you whips out her breast and start feeding her screaming child on the spot in plain view of everyone. Wouldn't that make a lot of people uncomfortable? Is there not a secluded area she could go to breastfeed?

It's true we live in a hyper-sexualized culture and T&A is everywhere. I mean, sex is all the average dude even wants to talk about. It's also true we have all seen breasts before, but there is such a thing as respecting others around you.

If you think that's bad, some Chinese mothers let their infants use the bathroom in the street. Now, that I can understand opposing and it is quickly becoming an outdated practice in China, but why should a mother be forced to find a secluded area every time her baby needs to be fed when breasts are already on display all over our society? I can understand why it would be quite a bother having to get up and move to a private place just to feed your baby, as if it was akin to using the bathroom in public.

I also really can't understand why men would oppose this. Is it some sort of power of association thing where looking at a baby attached to a breast somehow ruins breasts for you because it conjures up uncomfortable thoughts about fatherhood and commitment? I personally don't suffer from such delusions since I would never be interested in the mother with the baby anyway (personally). Either way, though, it's not that hard to get a kick out of seeing an actual titty in public and then moving about your merry way without getting a boner. Just don't stare and you'll be fine.

 

[PaulConventionWV]

Would it bother anyone to see a guy playing pocket pool? You know, masturbating without exposing himself?

It's not the same thing at all, but do you see what I am getting at?

No, I don't see what you're getting at at all.

 

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

I would hope that if I'm in culinary school, I'm making something that requires a bit more skill than a bacon cheeseburger.

Well, I was just thinking of US culinary school.

If I'm in a class on being a breastfeeding consultant then having a woman breastfeed in class would probably not be distracting

But what if Selma Hayek is a guest speaker in your class?

 

[pessimist]

No, I don't see what you're getting at at all.

It's the feeling of making those around you uncomfortable.

Why does breastfeeding in the wide open public make folks feel that way? I have no clue but it does. Does it hurt to, you know, be mindful of those around you? There are many areas in public places where you can go and seclude yourself. Most women that I've seen do just that, but some (like the woman in the OP) do not.

 

[Dr.3D]

Just because some folks have a problem with breast feeding, I see no reason for someone to stop doing it. Perhaps those with the problem should see a shrink and find a way to get over it.

If your eye offends you, stop using it to look at what ever it is that offends you.

 

[William Tell]

It's the feeling of making those around you uncomfortable.

Why does breastfeeding in the wide open public make folks feel that way? I have no clue but it does. Does it hurt to, you know, be mindful of those around you? There are many areas in public places where you can go and seclude yourself. Most women that I've seen do just that, but some (like the woman in the OP) do not.

 

[pessimist]

Just because some folks have a problem with breast feeding, I see no reason for someone to stop doing it. Perhaps those with the problem should see a shrink and find a way to get over it.

If your eye offends you, stop using it to look at what ever it is that offends you.

Personally, I am not advocating for any laws banning breastfeeding (that is ridiculous, lol). I am just wondering why folks aren't more respectful of others since we live in a "society".

 

[Dr.3D]

Personally, I am not advocating for any laws banning breastfeeding (that is ridiculous, lol). I am just wondering why folks aren't more respectful of others, since we live in a "society".

Is there a right not to be offended?
There are so many things that offend different people, if we tried to avoid each and every one of them, we wouldn't get anything done.

 

[pessimist]

Weird but the picture in the OP is more exposed that the bikini lady in the cartoon. Also, the setting makes a big difference. Seeing an engorged exposed breast in class, workplace, graduation is very different from seeing the same at the beach, mall, etc. One place you want to concentrate and focus on school, work, ceremony etc and you don't really want something that stimulating in your line of sight. But then again, I am reasonable to suggest that she should cover up more than is seen in the OP picture and maybe go to the corner of the room if she has to conduct her business. I am not calling for burkas, or bans. Its just that people be considerate of other when they are in public.

The same policy applies to other natural acts involving sex organs done in public like farting and peeing.

re: bold

Exactly my thoughts (as well as MANY others).

 

[pessimist]

Is there a right not to be offended?
There are so many things that offend different people, if we tried to avoid each and every one of them, we wouldn't get anything done.

lol I AM NOT OFFENDED.

I am saying we should be respectful of others. Would you be comfortable next to a guy on an airplane who is pleasuring himself with hand in his pocket? That would make you feel uncomfortable, right?

Well, there are folks who feel uncomfortable sitting next to a woman breastfeeding. That is all I am saying.

 

[Dr.3D]

lol I AM NOT OFFENDED.

I am saying we should be respectful of others. Would you be comfortable next to a guy on an airplane who is pleasuring himself with hand in his pocket? That would make you feel uncomfortable, right?

Well, there are folks who feel uncomfortable sitting next to a woman breastfeeding. That is all I am saying.

As long as the guy didn't get any of his bodily fluids on me, I wouldn't give a crap what he was doing.
Women have been feeding babies like that for so long, people should be used to it by now. I believe that because people are not used to it, is why some have a problem with it.

 

[pessimist]

As long as the guy didn't get any of his bodily fluids on me, I wouldn't give a crap what he was doing.
Women have been feeding babies like that for so long, people should be used to it by now. I believe that because people are not used to it, is why some have a problem with it.

 

[Dr.3D]

Hey, he isn't hurting me.

 

[Suzanimal]

lol I AM NOT OFFENDED.

I am saying we should be respectful of others. Would you be comfortable next to a guy on an airplane who is pleasuring himself with hand in his pocket? That would make you feel uncomfortable, right?

Well, there are folks who feel uncomfortable sitting next to a woman breastfeeding. That is all I am saying.

Oh relax, pessy. it's not like they're going around doing this...

NSFW - start at 1:22

 

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

The U.S. is one of those societies that wants to sanitize day-to-day living beyond recognition. Some of it is more orderly than the Nazism.

If you want to genuinely discuss something disgusting, then look no further than the US sanitization of the industry of war. People get obliterated in countries subject to our intervention, yet fat and weak Americans refuse to look at blood and guts.

No wonder looking at someone breastfeeding is unnerving for these perverts.

 

[Dr.3D]

Yeah, it's funny, people don't have any problem drinking cows milk, but human milk and they lose it. LOL

 

[juleswin]

re: bold

Exactly my thoughts (as well as MANY others).

I think a lot of people are arguing for the sake of argument sake. I really do think breastfeeding is important and a beautiful thing, but its a thing that most normal people including women would like to be kept out of the public professional space. In fact most women do cover up properly when they are breastfeeding. We only hear about the few attention seekers who make noise very once in a while knowing that the media will run a story about them instead of the vast majority of breast feeding women who are considerate and conduct their very private bodily function in private/under cover

As long as the guy didn't get any of his bodily fluids on me, I wouldn't give a crap what he was doing.
Women have been breastfeeding babies like that for so long, people should be used to it by now. I believe that because people are not used to it, is why some have a problem with it.

Exactly, but America would like to sanitize day to day living practices by having rules against such behaviors in public. People should be ok with citizens doing whatever is natural in the public arena. I mean, what has the world come to?

Yeah, it's funny, people don't have any problem drinking cows milk, but human milk and they lose it. LOL

Same goes for humans eating beef and how cows are allowed to be naked in public and humans are not.

 

[Dr.3D]

Same goes for humans eating beef and how cows are allowed to be naked in public and humans are not.

Well, I prefer the word nude rather than naked. How is somebody being hurt by seeing a nude human? Does it cause brain damage or eye damage?

 

[Dr.3D]

LOL, when I was much younger my dad asked me how to stop a baby from crying. I shrugged my shoulders and told him I didn't know. His answer was, "Give it a bust in the mouth."

 

[pessimist]

Hey, he isn't hurting me.

Hey, I am not going to judge.