Apparently the "technical term" is not breastfeeding nazi/mafia, but BREASTAPO

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...according to ridiculous, stupid article in Daily Mail today.

(Thought twice about posting this as I already posted a quote from the Mail on Sunday yesterday.
I do not buy that paper, just saw it at my in-laws on Sunday and in the library today. Phew!)

LOL. If only there was a way we could link this thread to the the daily mail board and then we could have a cyber-war!

I mean, who did Susie in MK's shopping? And did she just let her baby scream when the child got hungry if she ever was out? What a bad mother!

Im deeply embarrassed to admit that I read the Daily Mail for the whole of 1987. I was about 18, Mrs Thatcher was in 10 Downing Street...I was horrified when I saw the DM again recently. Please someone tell me its got worse over the years. I cant possibly have put up with reading that crap, can I???

Im going to visit the DM website on breastfeeding mothers now...Im strapped up to a blood pressure checking machine.

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Susie, MK: "If you have to venture out" - so do we all have to stay at home in purdah for a year or so??? FFS!

did you see that Susie from MK thinks that bf her "offspring" (??) in public would be unsettling? presumably small babies are deeply traumatised by the sight of their mother's own nipples or something.
oh and nighty-night, DM is def BETTER now than it was in '87 - sorry. but I think you can put it down to a youthful indiscretion. we can't possibly be blamed for something we did when we were 18, can we?? otherwise I am in a LOT of trouble with the fashion/hair/boyfriend/political views police.

I got the same reply posted below.. so how many emails do we reckon they got? Here's what I wrote..

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am writing to tell you that I was horrified to read of a woman being asked to leave the main area of the museum to breastfeed her baby.

This is an incredibly outdated and discriminatory attitude, and I suggest that you rethink your policy on this issue.

If you allow mothers to bottlefeed their babies then you also must surely allow them to breastfeed. Mother and baby rooms are not pleasant places to feed, especially if the nappy changing facilities are in the same area.
I am
sure you wouldn't like to be sent to eat your lunch in the toilets and neither should a baby be forced to do this.

Plus how are mothers with more than one child to manage? Must they make their children sit and wait for half an hour in a small room when they could all be happily enjoying the displays? Many mothers, my self included choose to breastfeed their babies on the move because otherwise we would spend half our waking hours confined to a tiny room and a chair.

I am sincerely hoping you think carefully about your reasoning behind this and introduce a national policy guiding your staff to support breastfeeding Mum's wherever they choose to feed.

Yours truly,

I'm sorry, I kn it's not nice to laugh at the stupid people but this little gem did make me pmsl (in a ladylike and discreet fashion, of course).

"Also, I don't want to see ladies taking out their breasts to feed their babies - not when I have Henry VIII's fabulous palace to look at!"

Thank you, Ayesha from London. I never realised it was competition between my norks and Henry's codpiece, but there we go...

I saw an article in the Daily Express today (was reading it in the supermarket cafe - honest!!) where a stupid columnist reckoned that if you see a woman breastfeeding in public she's probably even more embarrassed than you are and she's only doing it because she can't find a (smelly, cramped) M&B room! My BP must have been sky-high today at all this tosh.

PS NCT must be delighted to learn they're a government-funded Quango - no more relying on volunteers for fundraising monies!!

I liked that bit as well, suedonim - classic DM 'I don't actually know what we're talking about but whatever it is, I expect it's the fault of those breast-waggling liberal pinkos in the govt' frothing.

Snafu

(was grinning at the nork/codpiece bit btw)

Snaf (HunkerNorksMunker here), DH has PHSL at your latter posts on here - cat's bottoms and codpieces indeed!

DH also says he thinks breastfeeding in public is disgusting and he'd NEVER do it (but ladies doing it is fine ).

Just wondering whether I'm doing this breastfeeding thing wrong now - is it meant to be more like dogging? From the tone of some of the ignorant shites on the DM, it would seem it ought to be a full-on orgy?

I suggest you try it at Hampton Court, HM, and see if the doggy pos gets more or less of a reaction than the norks!

I suggest you try it at Hampton Court, HM, and see if the doggy pos gets more or less of a reaction than the norks!

Seriously though, what do these people think they're seeing when they see a woman breastfeed?!

They think they're seeing some feckless, non-deodorant-wearing, anarchist crystal wearing counter-culture arrogant harpy defying society by demanding attention from all the passers-by around her.

In the same way that a child of 6 thinks money is obtained simply by going to the cashpoint.

One day, some of those idiots might find out how pig-ignorant they are. It's a safe bet that the majority won't though! (And seriously, I honestly think that a couple having a shag would probably not be met with any less hostility than a breastfeeding mother and baby in some environments and among some people!)

The moral of the story being, if you're going to bf, you may as well get down to it doggy stylee! Because the level of offence will be the same!

(Obviously, only if you find yourself inexpliquably among dm readers - note, don't try the doggee stylee thing among normal people! - stick to BF!)

LOL!

I think that perhaps these morons see women norkfeeding more often than they notice - people often came over to me when DS was feeding to stroke his head and chat to me, etc - then (sometimes, but by no means always) looked a bit embarrassed when they saw what I was doing! Most were just surprised that I was feeding as they'd not noticed at all.

Nobody's noticed me shagging DH in public either though, so perhaps I'm just v discreet

Just skimmed this thread.

God I am glad I don't read Daily Mail or similar I think I would be slowly driven insane by such sh*.

By the way Susie I know someone who NEVER breastfed purely because she found the idea embarrassing (when in public) and was too scared! That attitude only adds to the problem!

And 'dragging your off spring round the supermarket????????' Excuse me???? Did I do that for fun? I am afraid I don't have people to run off and do my errands while I be a proper fecking mother!

Grrrr. GRRRR. I really shouldn't let ignorant arseholes like that wind me up.

bin readin this thread i too did a post reply too dm what a load of poo they are but got alovely letter we should be able too do wereever when ever they av the prob not us bf,s your remarks hm are so funny but dont they anger you bloody idiots

Norks!!!!

Haveyou ever heard anything so outrageous? Next we'll have young children running amok smoking ecstasy and having sex with each other. Not like in my day, dea, where you could leave your front door open all day and all night. Of course, I blame the blacks/gays/working class*, not that you can say that these days, they'll call you a racist/ homophobe/ Tory.

Britain under Churchill was the best we ever had. I'd love once again to hear the sound of leather on willow, and wax lyrical about other mythical notions that didn't actually exist.

Pop music today is rubbish, it's not music, dear, juts noise.

Bring back hanging, except for that nice Lee Clegg boy.

The unemployed are just lazy and don't want a job. They'd rather steal and sponge off us good hard working, tax payers.

Anyone who is the slightest bit different must be hunted down and killed and lets not forget fox hunting, which along with witch dunking, is a perfectly natural country pursuit and should be allowed and anyway, foxes like it, it doesn't hurt them.

Norks a lordy!!!!!!

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Btw, have had been on the sherry this evening. Am a bit tipsy