To be so upset and angry because of complaint about my friend breastfeeding?

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My friend and work colleague had a DD 6 months ago. We both work in a primary school.

Several weeks ago my friend visited her old reception class in school. The class topic has been 'Growing' ang the reception teacher thought it would be nice for my friend to bring her DD in during the lesson where they would be talking about babies.

I've just had a phone call from my friend and I'm really angry at what she told me.

Apparently at the end of the lesson in school my friend needed to feed her DD and so sat quietly in the reading corner away from the children while she BF.

Friend had a call from the head on Friday telling her that a parent has complained about her BF'ing in front of the children

This parent said that her DS had said he had seen Mrs "boobies" and had been a bit giggley about it.

The head is being lovely and only spoke to my friend about purely to let her know what has happen and as far as I know this parent has been put in her place.

I am just so shocked that this parent could do this. I know the parent in question and the more I think about it I#m getting more and more angry!!!!

I think dp is an infiltrator from theBNP, sent to befriend us and start chat threads, and thence convert us into her corner of the political world....or i might just be v v tired..

Thanks Hoochie, I´m wasting my time here then..

rofl @ homosexula.

Great name for a band.

Justcall...that was SO graphic.

you know "bitchness" is not something i associate with feminism...

justcallmedog;

children, imho..thrive better with male/female role models...i'm not saying that two gay men or women couldn't be wonderful parents...but you have to think of the children...you are all so selfish.

I was being scottishmummy there, good huh?

it's pretty offensive to suggest that dp represents the bnp, most definitely. but her reasoning, i'm afraid, does seem to mirror theirs. not that i'm saying she supports the bnp though, because i really am not.

Sane and normal by whose standards? Oswald Mosley's?

Aitch I was being silly, sorry

don't worry aitch..i'm used to it...but don't worry...i won't be running to MNHQ about posts suggesting i'm on mumsnet recruiting for the BNP... i believe in freedom of speech.

in your opinion? oh that's quite different.

what if the male is an alcoholic, still using? and the female a twittering fool who only wants to shop? still better?

if by think of the children you mean that they'll be bullied... i don't know for how much longer. yes, if it's your kids, clearly, but we know so many gay couples who are the dds aunts and uncles and utterly boringly normal and never thought about as anything other than the people they are... i just can't see her bullying people over having gay parents when she gets to school. these things are not fixed, we can change them.

I am not sure I believe someone who claims to have bf for 3 years (dp i think) is uncomfortable with bf in public. I would guess that the anti-breastfeeders feel bad as they ff and don't like their kids learning bf is best? (in case they wonder/ask why they didn't get it) I ff my older ones after a few weeks bf and am all for bf and ould never object to public bf.

On the gay parenting issue I am shocked at the judgyness of a poster and am glad that my kids are brought up with good yet maybe liberal morals, mainly that it takes all sorts and that people are all different yet valuable whether gay, straight etc. It's how you treat people that counts not your private sex life. DDs friends has lesbian parents, if I said to 6 year old DTs someone was gay they wouldn't care a jot. I am sad for what these parents are teaching their kids.

Daft, I was musing in a ridiculous manner, not being serious...my brain gets a bit odd at this time of night. Have got slumbering child on lap and another one on the sofa. I don't really think you're anything to do with them. It was a poor joke.

Saying that, you come across as extremely right wing.

Just to clarify i mean uncomfortable with others feeding in public in above post.

but your reasoning, the way you say 'the unsayable' and i don't know, somehow imply that the 'norm' (white in the case of the BNP, married straight in your case) is under attack.... i dunno dp, it does smack of their majority victim reasoning. can't everyone just budge up and take people as we find them? my neighbours are truly excellent parents to their biological children, i'm a bit hurt that you'd think they're not.

daftpunk, you clearly don't know anything about feminism, so why would you?

"children, imho..thrive better with male/female role models...i'm not saying that two gay men or women couldn't be wonderful parents...but you have to think of the children...you are all so selfish."

I'd rather children to be brought up by gay people, unmarried people, anyone would be better than self-righteous homophobe conservatives like you.

Won't anyone think of the children? Lol, are you mrs lovejoy?

hey..internationalflight..no worries, it actually made me laugh...

good, it was supposed to

you know what, daftpunk you are right - my friend was brought up by lesbian parents and my friend turned out terrible......

she too was a......
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daftpunk, do you know any gay people? any gay parents? are you basing these views on anything you've encountered in actual real life, or is it maybe stuff you have read in a paper, eg daily mail?