Ban anti breastfeeding businesses

[Jojo131214]

I don't know if any of you saw the article over the weekend about the bridal shop disallowing a breastfeeding mother to do so in the shop. This shop is now attempting to cyber bully said mother through FB instead of accept responsibility. Is this right? Should businesses like this be allowed to continue to run untainted? If you agree they should apologise and change their policies, please sign.

I very much doubt you would be able to 'ban' these businesses but I suspect they will not society well after treating someone like that.

'Do very' not 'society'

In what way do you mean ban them? Do you mean have them closed down, in which case that wouldn't be possible, there's no law that can do that under those circumstances, and while what they did was wrong taking someone's livelihood away for refusing to allow breastfeeding seems rather draconian.

If you mean force them to be breastfeeding friendly (which is in no way a ban) you might be onto something feasible, but you need to make sure you have all the facts right first, the newspapers tend to twist a story depending on what spin they want to put on it and there may be more to it than what was reported.

What do you mean by untainted though? You certainly can't 'ban' businesses

Idont believe what the woman is saying is true. The shop have said they have a seating area etc and they told her this.

It takes years to build a business, but it can take seconds to ruin it

As it now appears to be in hands of lawyers, I don't think this is the right moment to campaign based on a specific incident.

"She said: “Josephine visited us and seemed happy. She was never told she would spurt milk or to go out on the street.

"We have a waiting area where she would have been fine to breastfeed, with water, chairs and toilet facilities.

“We are very upset by what happened after her visit, Josephine and her friends have posted many messages on our Facebook page which we feel are unjust, and we have consulted a solicitor about their content.

“We have been trading for 17 years and have never had any complaints.

"If we knew Josephine was breastfeeding we might have asked her to put back her appointment as a lot of our dresses require you to take your bra off.

"But we use our common sense, and people have visited who are breastfeeding or have children before and always left happy.”

I'm getting fed up of these stories of women trying to make a point about their "rights to breastfeed". They are doing more harm than good.

Do you think it's all right to go in to a wedding dress shop (or any other shop) drinking and eating??

Some people do. IMO they are very bad mannered.

I breastfed for 5 years in total, never once did I feel the need to feed in a retail outlet.

Offense it seems has become a national pastime.

Exactly reeky. I can't stand when people go out of their way just to be offended.