Woman verbally attacked for breastfeeding in Conn. Target

[Axphism]

Did you even read what I said was put in bottles, or did you ignore it a third time?

It's amusing to watch you dig a hole with statements like "i don't have an evidence but you're wrong", but it gets tiresome.

Sorry, I didn't mean that animal milk was not put in the bottles. I just meant that not only animal milk was put in the bottles.

[dr2022]

This could be solved by a blanket. Breastfeeding seems like an intimate thing that makes people feel more awkward rather than disgusted. Personally, I don't care. but I can see why others might feel weird about it.

[Axphism]

This could be solved by a blanket. Breastfeeding seems like an intimate thing that makes people feel more awkward rather than disgusted. Personally, I don't care. but I can see why others might feel weird about it.

From what I understand that can get uncomfortably warm. That's what I've been told anyway.

[Ilir]

Or plan your shopping trips better? I mean, as a mother, you tend to know when it's time for your child to be fed.

The guy involved wasn't right to blow his top at this woman, but the woman could avoid it all be planning out her day with better accuracy. Yes, I understand that sometimes it can't be avoided, but many of these things can with better planning.

I fully expect to be bitched at for this point of view. I'm ready.

No. You shouldn't have to plan around. Your kid is hungry ? You have a breast that happens to work ? Feed him.

It's one of the most natural thing in this fucking world and you want people to "hide" it as if it was some sort of perversion ?

You're really brainwashed.

[Axphism]

No. You shouldn't have to plan around. Your kid is hungry ? You have a breast that happens to work ? Feed him.

It's one of the most natural thing in this fucking world and you want people to "hide" it as if it was some sort of perversion ?

You're really brainwashed.

I'm not sure that argument holds. There are other things that are pretty natural that we don't want in public.

The two aren't the same thing, obviously. I just don't see how that's a valid argument considering.

[Kathandira]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_bottle#History


History[edit]
Bottles with hard spouts date to early in recorded time, as evidence by archeological finds (see image).[17][18] The first consisted of urns made of various materials, with an opening at one end for filling the bottle, and a second at the other to be put into the baby's mouth.[18] Animal horn was another common early material (dating to 13th century, ibid.), examples of which survive as images in woodcuts. Soft nipples of various materials were introduced early in the history of feeding (e.g., leather, or dried cow's teat filled with cloth);[19] many were very difficult to clean.[citation needed]


Animal shaped ceramic feeding bottle from Regensburg, Germany (ca. 1350–800 BCE)
Although Elijah Pratt of New York patented the first rubber nipple in 1845,[17] it took until the 20th century before materials and technology improved sufficiently to allow manufacture of a soft nipple that was practical for use: the invention of vulcanized rubber (1840s) provided a material that was soft and could eventually be manufactured in volume (early 1900s),[20] and could withstand the heat of sterilization. (As these sources note, "early black Indian rubber... had a very strong pungent smell", and did not survive repeated exposures to hot water.)

The first glass nursing bottle was patented by American C.M. Windship in 1841, but required that it "be superimposed on the mother's breast so that the nursing infant would be deceived into thinking that the milk was coming directly from the mother".[21] As the group American Collectors of Infant Feeders notes, by "the late 1800s a large variety of glass nursing bottles were produced in the United States", and the U.S. Patent Office had issued more than 200 patents for various designs of nursing bottles by the 1940s—designed to lie flat or stand up straight, with openings on their sides or ends, with detachable or permanently attached nipples, etc.[21] The American and British markets eventually saw the introduction of heat-resistant upright Pyrex bottles, narrow-necked versions in the 1950s and wide-neck versions a decade later,[22] with plastic bottles appearing widely, a further decade on.[citation needed]

Innovations such as the introduction of a working check valve in the nipple (to provide unidirectional flow of the liquid food) appeared as early as 1948 in a patent to J.W. Less,[23] and was picked up by others including Owens-Illinois Glass,[24] eventually making its way into Gerber and all modern pressure-balancing bottle designs,[25] as well as adult drinking cups and various other products requiring fluid flow under vacuum.[26]

The modern business of producing bottles in the developed world is substantial: in 1999 it was reported that the UK "feeding and sterilising equipment sector ... stands at £49m… [where] [s]ales of feeding bottles account for 39%" or £19.1m of that market.[27]

[IIamaKing]

I don't. We'll have to agree to disagree on this one

So a guy beating up someone in public...no ones business? Im not saying its 100% my business, but at least a bit, it affects me.

[Tinykong]

Well, a lot of people disagree with that too.

I meant legally speaking.

[Dr Assbandit]

Sure if the baby doesnt like it, I get it.

As I said, I couldn't care less. However I'm sure there are ways to be discreet about it.

First you need to explain why there needs to be discretion associated with it? If you a have a snack and you're hungry do you feel shy about eating in public?

Breast-feeding is nothing more than just that, an act of feeding. Just because people only see breasts as a sexual organ, doesn't make it so and it doesn't somehow overshadow it's original intended function, to feed your child.

Breast-feeding has a lot of benefits and in a time when women are breast-feeding less compared to before, I'm just glad women are doing so even if it is in public and against the wishes of those whose delicate sensibilities are easily offended.

[Cebel]

Honestly.. if you watch someone breastfeed you see a baby's head and the same skin you'd see in a v-neck. It's really not pornographic, people just like to associate breast feeding with sexual breast play and get uncomfortable.

I think thats a pretty broad judgement.

I know plenty of people who know its not sexual, but still find it "disgusting" for lack of a better word.

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First you need to explain why there needs to be discretion associated with it? If you a have a snack and you're hungry do you feel shy about eating in public?

Breast-feeding is nothing more than just that, an act of feeding. Just because people only see breasts as a sexual organ, doesn't make it so and it doesn't somehow overshadow it's original intended function, to feed your child.

Breast-feeding has a lot of benefits and in a time when women are breast-feeding less compared to before, I'm just glad women are doing so even if it is in public and against the wishes of those whose delicate sensibilities are easily offended.

Probably because people dont feel comfortable with people tits hanging out. God forbid we be discreet in this world, not everything needs to be seen/shown.

Now as I've said again and again, i dont care... I'm just trying to put a different point of view out there.

[Kuntantee]

Nothing unnatural with urinating or defecating, but we don't do these in the open because the majority of people don't want to see it. Trying to reform the world one women's issue at a time, you would think if you really wanted to do some good you would form a liberal army that marches on countries that are behind the western world, but instead you're comfortable harassing your own people instead of going after the part of the world that really needs it.

Shitting/Peeing in public is contamination of public space, space that belongs to public. Breast-feeding is a visual "inconvenience" for certain individuals, at worst. Simple logic.

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I just do not understand how breast feeding can be a problem. If you don't want to see it, don't look at it. This is often a problem for entitled religious fucks.

[monkmastaeq]

I just think babies and children in general in public are gross

[Evil Midnight Bomber]

I think thats a pretty broad judgement.

I know plenty of people who know its not sexual, but still find it "disgusting" for lack of a better word.

Do they also find it disgusting when they see women in tank tops?

[Vanyali]

I think thats a pretty broad judgement.

I know plenty of people who know its not sexual, but still find it "disgusting" for lack of a better word.

Are they disgusting in a bikini? Same amount of skin.

How about a tank top? Same skin.

An infant eating from a bottle? Same result, same fluid.

If the answer is no to those, it's not because of the skin exposed, but because something is being done to a breast, and that makes them uncomfortable.

[Dr Assbandit]

I think thats a pretty broad judgement.

I know plenty of people who know its not sexual, but still find it "disgusting" for lack of a better word.

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Probably because people dont feel comfortable with people tits hanging out. God forbid we be discreet in this world, not everything needs to be seen/shown.

Now as I've said again and again, i dont care... I'm just trying to put a different point of view out there.

You do realize people use the exact same logic for gay people right? They see them making out, say it's disgusting, and when asked why it's the same "I dunno lol" cop out.

I understand you don't care, but I asked you again to explain exactly why there needs to be discretion associated with this act because some people finding it "disgusting" is not a logical or a good reason in any shape or form.

[Axphism]

You do realize people use the exact same logic for gay people right? They see them making out, say it's disgusting, and when asked why it's the same "I dunno lol" cop out.

I understand you don't care, but I asked you again to explain exactly why there needs to be discretion associated with this act because some people finding it "disgusting" is not a logical or a good reason in any shape or form.

The answer regarding breastfeeding in public is probably that you're right. Women should be able to do it without being harassed for it being disgusting.

As far as seeing gay people making out in public, I don't want to see anyone making out in public truthfully. Gay or straight is meaningless to me. If they find the "gay" part of it disgusting, that's probably because of religion.

[Machismo]

Yes, lets remove the people who are disgusted and not the singular person doing the disgusting act. I'm in full right to wear nipple tassles and a bikini bottom with flip flops to the store, but you can be sure they will try to get me to leave rather than the people offended by me. I'm not saying breast feeding should not be allowed, but do it in a way where you aren't flashing a large group of people, or be willing to face public indecency charges like everyone else.



But look at all the things that have changed in the world because a lot of people said they were offended. For instance smokers are treated like scum of the earth now.

Or we can just make fun of the people who are disgusted. I love how fucking pathetic people are, they somehow believe that being offended gives them some sort of power over others. That guy is a fucking pussy.

[Cebel]

You do realize people use the exact same logic for gay people right? They see them making out, say it's disgusting, and when asked why it's the same "I dunno lol" cop out.

I understand you don't care, but I asked you again to explain exactly why there needs to be discretion associated with this act because some people finding it "disgusting" is not a logical or a good reason in any shape or form.

Lmao, really? You're comparing breast feeding to gay people making out? No more further comments needed. You're clueless.

[Bathory]

I don't like a thing, everyone else must coddle me. Sure I could excuse myself, hell, I could look away, but I won't. Because everyone must coddle me, like my parents coddled me.

[Evil Midnight Bomber]

If I believed that women shouldn't breastfeed in public, your idea of me being brainwashed might be spot on. Take a look at some of my replies, you'll see that breastfeeding in public is fine with me.

But yeah... call me brainwashed.

Well, you did say:

Or plan your shopping trips better? I mean, as a mother, you tend to know when it's time for your child to be fed.

The guy involved wasn't right to blow his top at this woman, but the woman could avoid it all be planning out her day with better accuracy.

...so it's not hard to see how people might get the impression you don't think women should breastfeed in public.