The verb 'to boob' makes me feel all kinds of terrible

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God I fucking hate this saying.

Agreed ‘boob’ as a verb, ‘Mumma bear’
‘Bean’ ‘bear’ are cringeworthy. Is it a new thing? It seems like a new thing.

I agree, you are being a bit dudgy tbh. Women get enough stick about breastfeeding without other mums taking offence at what they call it.

I have to ask.. WTF are 'spendy buttons'?!

I hate it too and I'm a breastfeeding mother. However, I 'feed' or 'breastfeed' my child. I do not 'boob' her. I'm not remotely offended by the thread.

Judgy, lord knows what dudgy is

@maidenover are you for real? We've both read a thread about people not liking the word 'boob' being used as a verb. I have agreed that I also dislike this and have given three examples of how I have seen it in use. You call me judgy and say I appear worse than anyone who uses 'boob' as a verb. I point out that I haven't judged anybody for breastfeeding but you in fact jumped to an incorrect conclusion and judged me and now I am not nice and should be kinder? Ok.

All Howlovely did was give examples. No one is bothered by other women breastfeeding.

I personally don't like the term either, along with changing 'changing their bums" and the term "poop". I don't really know why I just don't. But that's just me, if someone else wants to use those terms then crack on.

It's just another one of these ridiculous euphemisms that seem to permeate parenthood. See also mummas, cloth bums, spendy buttons, leaky eyes, mamma bear.....

Yes! I’m expecting my first soon and I’ve been totally shocked by the stupid infantile phrases that women seem to be expected to use when they become mothers - presumably because we push our brains out with our placentas. Bubs, ickle bubba, blankies, bootees, etc

I've never even heard of it

@howlovely yes I’m for real, it’s fine to not like the word boob, there are plenty of words and phrases I’m not fond of. I think your examples overstep the mark.

I have a 7 week old baby and if I’d written the post you quoted I’d think you were being a total bitch and would probably cry.

Pretty bad. Never heard it.

spendy buttons

What is this?

I think there is an unspoken undertone in some of these replies, tbh.
I don’t use the phrase myself - I say feeding. Still think some of these posts are a little bitchy.

It's AIBU! It's allowed to be bitchy and people are allowed to not open the thread

Fair enough.

Just because you’re ‘allowed’ to be bitchy doesn’t mean you have to be.

I haven't actually been bitchy but others can be if they wish. It's AIBU.

And yet, there you are maidenover, calling me a total bitch for giving examples of when I've seen 'boob' used as a verb. Is it the example about being at the bank that makes people cry?
There are many more brutal comments than mine about the dislike of the use of 'boob' as a verb but for some reason you've singled me out for your anger. If it makes you feel better then it's fine, you're welcome.

I hate it but then I admit I'm very touchy about breastfeeding in general, having failed at it with both my children.

I have to ask wtf are 'spendy buttons', I can only think it means coins....but why?

I dislike it too. It seems to scream 'look - this is how I feel my child!' which can feel a little goady. When I had lactation failure with my first, it would have upset me because it would have triggered my feelings of inadequacy. With dd2, whom I could feed, I'd feel very similar but without the inadequacy.

MyGast please don't feel you 'failed', you didn't, you got your babies fed. It should be easy for all of us, it's what's meant to happen after all, but it doesn't always work that way x

Can’t stand the phrase. ‘I boobed the baby to sleep’. ‘Just boobing the baby’. Why not just say feeding? Why does how you feed them have to come in to it? I don’t care that you need to point out you’re breastfeeding. Yes I bf.

They say it a lot on a fb I’m part of.

It's pissing me off more and more that people say 'surgeries' instead of operation.

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