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

[tenthstreet]

God I fucking hate this saying.

[tenthstreet]

Because it’s a noun being used as a verb. I footed to the shops. No, you walked.

Was just about to post this. It's not the action itself that upsets people - it's the poor use of English. 


This. 100% this.

[LaMarschallin]

I'm boobing right now so you can all seethe and hiss, I care not a shite! I hope boobing makes it into the dictionary.

Fair play. It might be the most interesting thing the poster's been able to do.
Just by being a mammal.

Well done, booby randomer.

[Toohotformyliking]

Yeah, I can't stand that one either. I think it's the cutesiness of it.

[Toohotformyliking]

I mean, I had a baby. I didn't turn into one. I can still talk about things in an adult way without having to use a twee little invented mummy language.

[Howlovely]

@merename oh no, I don't think breastfeeding is revolting at all! If it works for you it is amazing and of course exactly what our boobs were designed to do! I was just puzzled where you got the idea that people saying they hate the use of boob as a verb, in whatever form, e.g. boobing, just boobed, etc, meant that they think boobs are just for men's pleasure. I didn't notice anyone on here saying breastfeeding was revolting at all but maybe I just didn't pick up on that. People are just saying the term 'boobing' is wankery and I agree.

[SushiForAmateurs]

Jeez, thanks for introducing a whole new, blissfully unaware audience to the phrase, OP?!

[Whatsername7]

I think the vast majority of people on here who think the term 'boobing' is ridiculous are pro breastfeeding. I certainly am. I never felt the need to advertise that I was breastfeeding, even though I was proud of myself for having succeeded because it was so hard. But, by the same token, I never had anyone make any kind of comment or make me feel uncomfortable when feeding, either in public or private. The only comment I ever got was from a sweet old lady in a cafe who noticed me trying to unwrap my cake with one hand and offered to help me. This was a completely different experience to when I had lactation failure with dd1. I went through three weeks of hell trying to establish a supply that never came. I introduced ff once my dd had dropped 2 centiles on gp advice. She had colic, was a screamy nightmare and I blamed myself and my stupid body for not working as it should. A mother at a baby group sneered when I got a bottle out and responded to my tale of woe by telling me I should have tried harder because she breastfed twins so I had no excuse. She was one of several people who passed negative comment about ff and I ended up feeling very low and depressed. The whole 'im boobing!' thing is another way of highlighting how you are feeding your baby, if it isn't to feel superior, why mention it at all? In the end, there is so much more to motherhood.

[Newbie1981]

Weird that that bothers you

[tenthstreet]

@Newbie1981 I can't stand bad grammar

[LolaSmiles]

Because it’s a noun being used as a verb. I footed to the shops. No, you walked.
👏👏👏
I armed my sauce. No, you stirred it.

It is also very twee when used by people who want to find any reason to fit a twee boob word into a sentence.
I think the vast majority of people on here who think the term 'boobing' is ridiculous are pro breastfeeding. I certainly am
Same. I think the people who find it nauseatingly twee are people who think fed is best and support breastfeeding.
In my experience, it's only a certain type of person who wants to talk at length about the fact they breastfeed who uses words like boob monster, boob milk, drunk on booby juice, boobed to sleep etc.

[MinisterforCheekyFuckery]

It infuriates me when grown women insist on infantilising themselves by talking or acting like little girls in any context. It's got absolutely nothing to do with "shaming breastfeeding". I fully support any womans right to breastfeed anywhere, anytime, for as long as she wants if that's what she wants. But I'll never understand why some adult women find it necessary to talk like toddlers and "boobing" is a prime example of this. I know one woman in particular who is always doing this..."we're still boobing during the night", "my ickle man needs his boobie juice", "Freddy still loves boobie, don't you darling?" I genuinely couldn't care less how she chooses to feed her child but it's a shame she can't talk about it without sounding completely ridiculous.

[MerryBerryCheesecake]

It's twee and cringe-worthy.

There are many euphemisms for breasts.

I wonder if anybody is referring to their baby as a "tit monster" or being a lover of "bap juice" or as having been "on the knocker all night"

[xtinak]

Off the back of this thread I've decided to move away from saying booby monster. I'm going to go with tit goblin from now on.

[SpotlessMind]

I dislike the word boob generally for anything other than a joke - it the sort of thing they used to say on sitcoms like Are You Being Served or Allo Allo. I have no issues with breastfeeding, breastfed my son til toddlerhood, but never felt the need to say anything more than I fed him, the nature of that feed was of no significance to anyone other than me and my son.

[TipsyToasty]

I mostly say feeding, but sometimes switched to “boobing” when chatting to closest friends. Just finished ebf 2DC for nearly 3 years. It doesn’t really matter what others call it

[OkPedro]

Agree with many pps. It’s using the word boob in the wrong way and it sounds like something an embarrassed 5 year old would say

[MerryBerryCheesecake]

"tit goblin"

😂😂😂

[Firecarrier]

Well, some of you (the minority thankfully) are willfully misunderstanding the point.

I breastfed 3 babies for several months each. I was 'proud' because it didn't come easily the first two times, I battled through numerous things, including mastitis. I had no family role models to emulate, I live in an area with extremely low breastfeeding rates etc etc

I believe in the importance of breastfeeding for those who can manage it and actually trained as a breastfeeding mentor.

I even happily use the word boob in everyday language as do lots of women I know.

However, used as a verb like the examples given sounds utterly me, me, me look at me breastfeeding, I'm superior and my whole identity is wrapped up in the way I feed my child, and yes, if said Infront of women who couldn't (but would have liked to breastfeed) - insufferably smug!

[HermioneMakepeace]

Booby Monster.

[Newbie1981]

@tenthstreet ah you poor thing! You ok hun?

[TrendyNorthLondonTeen]

I loathe the b word in any context but especially the used as a verb. I just imagine someone battering their child into submission with a giant pair of comedy breasts.

[Siameasy]

It’s annoying cos people think it’s funny like they are the first to say it
Mama annoys me “you got this mama!” F off

[OkPedro]

trendynorthlondonteen

[itslateandiminmypyjamas]

Christ someone made up a vomit worthy poem about it

[Sandybval]

That poem is truly horrendous, hopefully it was just someone on a wind up!