Breast feeding mum, online troll and the newspaper

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Now do not get me wrong and I know it has been done to death, a breast feeder gets a troll, instead of just blocking the troll, she runs to the newspaper, I just do not get why??? surely this does more damage to breast feeding mothers? and why is she in one picture sticking her finger up?

Good lord if we ran to the newpaper everytime we had a troll on here the newspapers would be out of business!

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/aimee-wood-breastfeeding-pictures-baby-13262938

A young mum has hit back at a troll who abused her online for posting pictures of herself breastfeeding her daughter.

Aimee Wood, 20, who regularly posts photos of herself feeding seven-month-old Nova on her Facebook and Instagram pages, was told by a stranger to put her ‘f t* away’.

Aimee, who is trying to help ‘normalise’ breastfeeding with her photos, is planning become a peer supporter, training other mums how to feed their children.

Her photos have not gone down well with some people on social media.

Aimee didn’t hold back in her response to one Facebook user, who sent her a private message suggesting she put her ‘f t* away’.

She replied with a photo of herself making a hand gesture while feeding Nova.

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Because nobody can have a differing opinion anymore. If someone disagrees with you then you must immediately take to social media and whip up a frenzy of people who do agree. Tis the way now.

Why does it damage other breastfeeding mothers? I think good for her. I haven't read the article (it doesn't look like a flattering article) but maybe it will make people think twice before they criticise a mum for feeding her baby

Don't see anything wrong with it. I would have just moaned to my friends personally, but I guess she did this to prevent him harassing her or other people in future

abigwideworld, because in oneof the photos, she is there sticking her middle finger up whilst feeding her baby, and why on earth would you run to the newsapaper about a troll?

I think there is a line between someone trying to normalise breast feeding and doing something for attention and I rather suspect this woman has crossed the line. I'm not sure it's terribly helpful for other women when she does this.

Because she's trying to encourage breastfeeding and people seeing her getting trolled might be put off. Plus the newspaper thing will get her a wider audience for her message.

I think good on her, the troll (and others) might realise that breastfeeding mums aren't an easy target and think twice about harassing them either online or in public.

What's wrong with sticking your finger up at someone who's treated you in that way?

She is sending a message that it won't be tolerated. I think that's fair enough!

I don't get why they run off to newspapers either. I don't think people reading the newspapers care that much, they just roll their eyes and move onto the next article.

I am more struck by the ridiculous stuff she sticks on her baby's head than the breastfeeding. And I can't disassociate her baby's name from a battered old Vauxhall.

That being said, would I appreciate my mother plastering photos on the internet of me feeding for the world to see, and then in a newspaper? Nope.

What the guy said was wrong and vulgar but I agree with the bit about respecting the child.

She's just an attention seeking fool, her boring posts regularly pop up on my FB in all their filtered airbrushed glory. It's not about normalising bf at all she's after her 5 mins of fame. Yawn.

I don't think Aimee sharing photos of herself on social media feeding her baby normalises breast feeding, it looks more like self promotion.

Breast feeding is totally normal, each to their own. Posting umpteen selfies of yourself, caked in makeup, looks a bit attention seeking.

Seriously? There's "having a different opinion" and there's "being verbally abusive and offensive". Good on her.

Her FB privacy settings should be better surely if random strangers can comment?

Sparklingbrook, obviously not. I am now going to take a look lol

You can't even tell when most women are bf. Having your whole boob on display to 'normalise' it is bollocks. It's attention seeking at its finest.

That said I've never understood the whole posting multiple pics of bf thing. You feed your baby, good for you .

I think all online trolls should be aware that their actions will not be consequence free.

When employers google them they should know they're hiring a twat

She probably has no privacy settings as she wants the wooooorld to see her. Happy to be proved wrong. She may have changed them after this happened. But then...

Breastfeeding doesn't need to be 'normalised'. It is normal. Just get on and feed your baby.

Good on her too many women are too nervous to do it and she's right don't wanna see it block her. It's her profile it's her child and like she said there stuff they post she does t want to see. I usually find most of these articles aren't people running to the newspaper rather the newspaper has caught onto the histeria around it and ran a story. Much like they creep round these places. It seems anyone who stands up for themselves are just attention seekers now.

Well said Louise

Exactly Whatsername.

Good for her. As she rightly says, her profile, her baby and her body. What a disgusting, aggressive, chauvinist post from the original man on her Facebook.
There are zillions of young women doing selfies out there, why pick on this lovely young mum doing something perfectly natural and trying to help other women with breastfeeding too.
We've got bare breasts in most of our tabloids for goodness sake. But that's for adult male enjoyment so of course it's socially acceptable.

Catsize me too, that was my first ever car!