I think we need to lose the dippy leftie notion of a "right". This is not a "rights" issue.
As a bloke I would never ever dream of harassing a BFing woman, but that's not really due to being a "new man". It's due to an extreme reluctance to getting involved with the breasts of a stranger. That's social conditioning I suppose, more than my social/political views.
That may be not obvious to some women, but most blokes are actually quite conservative about these things.
We had the case earlier where a dimwit cop bullied a BFing mother.
The police are crap at enforcing "rights", especially if they don't get arrests which make their statistics look good.
Recall that "assault" in British law does not have to involve physical contact. Shouting in someone's face counts the same, as do threats.
Thus those who harass BFing mothers are committing an assault with a sexual element. Not that is a law the police would lurrrve to enforce. They like catching sex criminals, they want arrests, and given that most are blokes it will appeal to their self image of the protectors of decent folk.
You wouldn't need many convictions, followed by the grief that follows to get BFers left very well alone.
And frankly,(again as a bloke) altough BFing mothers don't see much sexual in this, I regard it as much the same thing as groping a woman on the tube. It would not be a defence if she was wearing a low cut dress, and a bloke who harassed topless women on a beach would quickly get his lights punched out and/or enjoy a stay in the cells.
Worse, since as several here say,
Give up this guardian reader crap, and go for their throats. A registered sex offender gets his career knocked about, can't travel to a growing list of countries, and will have quite a miserable time of it all.