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?

Actually, I'm just a little fed up with the way everyone on this thread who has had the opinion that breast feeding mums are not an issue when done discreetly in public is attacked for that opinion. Read back on this thread and you will see it has happened time and time again.

oh totes what Sock said, great post

"Learn to get it right" before feeding in public?

Good grief. If I had done that my 2 year-old would never have been able to leave the house for the last 5 1/2 months.

Unfortunately, by the time my baby's tongue tie was diagnosed he was already stuck in his disorganised, frantic feeding ways. It's not going to change any time soon.

I have no intention of becoming a recluse for the duration of my baby's feeding. Nor am I prepared to drag my other child away from whatever he is doing to sit in a toilet while his brother feeds.

Why?

Because it is normal, non-offensive and necessary and anyone who has an issue with it will just have to look away and work things out in their own minds. If they want to sit and stare and tut and huff then that just makes it clear how silly they are.

And can someone explain how to "wave" a breast as I quite fancy having a go.

The breasts....the waving breasts are coming after yooooooooou...

Oh woe is you. You mean you knew you'd be pulled up on your utterly appalling attitude. Well yes. Mothers are human and so are babies believe it or not. All people, despite their level of disgustingness to you, precious, are entitled to go out and about in public. The thought that people who don't meet your accepted level of aesthetic appeal should shut themselves away is ignorant, offensive and downright arrogant.

And here go the mindless entitled women again so I will leave you to this thread. Once again you don't want to hear from people who ask you lot to be discreet, because YOU HAVE RIGHTS FFS!

Just noticed that you have an issue with possetting babies as well.

So actually, the only babies you want to see in public are the perfect, smiling, non-pooing, non-puking type and everyone else should keep their distasteful offspring at home.

[goes off to swap DS2 for a reborn doll in order to be more socially acceptable]

You lot are the mums who tell the fit young girls to "put it away love"

Make me laugh!

No. I don't want to hear from people who ask me to be discreet because I have rights FFS.

Hope that clarifies my position.

entitled to be out in pblic like everyone else? Hell yeah. Entitled is not a trump card you know, just because I used the word doesn't invalidate my argument. Try reading the words rather than just picking up on one word - mindless, much?

Don't let the breasts catch you PantyLace!

And I'm entitled to glare at your fumbling and sicking up kid!

~So suck it up!

Ive never told anyone to pt it away love, what on earth makes you think I have? Or are you running out of argument?

yeah, glare away, never said I care

"fit young girls"

I think pantylace is fairly clearly a man and not, as he/she has asserted, a breastfeeding mother.

I think it's a shitty thing to do, true, and as for the poster further down who said shed ogle, words fail me.

Read the WHOLE thread SPB. You're looking to go round the mulberry bush.

Here, a piece of after birth. Go catch!

women are their own worst enemies, honestly. The hatred towards women who are strugling and just want to be out of the house in public.

I'm all woman Kungfupannda.

Perhaps if you actually read what the people with an issue write it's because they are using inflamitory language and derogatory terms like
"waving breasts around" "wacking tit out" and the such like these are all coments actually designed to make a perfectly normal thing sound rude or dirty or negative that's why there getting flamed.
If you use such hostile language designed to antagonise people then that's what will happen

and yes not understanding or being aware that babies posset and do things like wear nappies or dribble is either uneducated or just plain stupidity unless ofcourse your under 10 then it's just being young

How strange. Are you drunk, pantylace?

what?
OK I give up. Mums and babies will go out and they will feed. Do what the hell you want.

Sad, sad little man covered in lace...

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Here comes the playground, so I leave now. I stand by my view.