AIBU to think that women should not have to be discreet when breastfeeding?

[lalaland3008]

I'm not saying that anyone should purposely flop both boobs out into someones dinner. But it makes me really mad that some people think women should have to be discreet when feeding their baby, sit in a corner or breastfeeding 'booth'.

I also think a breast is just not comparable to a penis to a vagina and if people are offended because they see breasts as purely sexual then that is their own problem.

Noone would object to me sitting in public drinking my coffee or feeding my baby a bottle of cows milk yet people find breastmilk offensive.

I'm not bitty mad I lasted 2 weeks breastfeeding but it still makes my blood boil that it is seen as controversial by many.

AIBU?

Never said it was immoral, I said I don't want to see it. I wouldn't want to see the page 3 boobs in real life either. Happy? I just don't want to see women's boobs out!

You're ridiculous comparing the too when part of your argument was that they aren't just sexual things.

You're sort of saying they're the same in both situations now.

Yellowraincoat you keep telling me to do that like its something I've never considered before. That's what I do do. It doesn't mean that I can't given my opinion here.

Two*

And I like my body just fine! Just not other peoples!

It makes my head explode. It's a weird half prudish half raunchy headfuck.

So it's fine on paper but not in real life.

Is breastfeeding ok on paper as well?

I don't understand how it is fine to have tits on page 3 but not in a cafe etc feeding a baby. Makes absolutely no sense at all.

Real life > page 3.

Big difference

No there's not a big difference.

Anyway going to hide this now,

I accept the fact that you have a right to breastfeed without consideration.

Accept that I don't want to be made uncomfortable because you've wacked your tit out at the side of me.

If there isn't, why aren't men turned on by breast feeding mothers.

Just saw a big pic of a close up baby breast feeding on the main mn page, did a little sick in my mouth and opened up my copy of the sun to soothe myself.

For God's sake Krumbum, who can we complain to?

That's disgusting.

Normal womens bodies don't offend me because I'm not a sexist 14 year old boy, or a 60 yr old right winger. Have fun lookin at your own tatas, I'll feed my baby and get on with my life.

I'm a 20 year old woman who doesn't want to see other peoples boobs, while im sat on the bus, having a meal. Etc.

Stop getting so friggin defensive, it's not a personal attack on you.

We could ask mn hq to have a page three section? I think it'd be a really positive and healthy thing to do, then all us uggo's can see what boobs should look like.

"Accept that I don't want to be made uncomfortable because you've wacked your tit out at the side of me"

Why do people who are repelled by normal breastfeeding always have to use language like 'whacked your tit out', of 'flopped your boobs out'? Oh hang on,that's because they're trying to ridicule the act and make it seem coarse and aggressive. When of course it's neither.

AS for you being made uncomfortable, well I feel the same when I think about racist or homophobic people being made uncomfortable by coming face to face with their prejudice: the words that trip off the tongue here are

TOUGH TITTY

whitewidow - don't look then

If you are saying that men aren't turned on by breastfeeding mums then why bother making such a fuss about breasts being for sex?

Hurrah Shagmund Freud, hurrah for you.

'I'm a 20 year old woman who doesn't want to see other peoples boobs'

I don't like seeing fat people in leggings, or old people snogging, but I don't present this idiosyncracy as something to be defended.

Really, it doesn't show you in a flattering light.

But I suppose that as you're posting anonymously you don't mind making yourself look like a nob.

baskingseals haven't you been reading? She doesn't want to be made to feel she can't look because THAT makes her uncomfortable as well.

And of course, we should all go around worrying about making other people feel comfortable at all times.

Oh your young I get it now. You've been brought up where porn is totally normalised and thinking we should all look like models. Younger women don't really breast feed cos then your boobs won't look how they are 'supposed' to.
Oh I'm 23 so I've lived it too but made a choice not to be so woman hating. Come over to feminism section and learn, when you understand how our culture conditioHenie then you can fight it and feel much more comfortable about your own and other ppl's bodies.

I think that whitewidow shows why we should bf as much as possible if her reactions are indicative of young peoples response to bf. That she is more comfortable with porn or page 3 is surely a cultured response and is frankly terrifying.

shagmund - you are spot on. mil used one of those phrases when i was bfing ds1 in her house.

this may sound strange but i think a lot of people are jealous of mothers bfing their babies. it is a world of two. intimate and complete, and i think it can make bystanders feel excluded from something they would like to experience. maybe i am wrong.

Xposts krumbum

YouBrokeMySmoulder I agree that it's worrying. I am so scared when I see the teenagers I teach...they are all done up to the nines every day and everything is about being "sexy".