Roxanne Roberts on nursing in public:
I admit it: I’m lactose intolerant.
The latest assault on the right to a peaceful cup of Joe comes courtesy of Lorig Charkoudian, a Silver Spring woman who not only wants to breast-feed her daughter at Starbucks whenever she likes but expects me to avert my eyes or leave if I don’t share her enthusiasm for double breast milk latte. It’s not enough that a new Maryland law supports her right to lactate in public — no, she wants Starbucks to issue a nationwide corporate policy supporting her position.
Speaking for the school of not letting it all hang out, let me say: Don’t. Please, please please. Just don’t.
NewMexiKen was a bit startled to notice a nursing infant next to him a few weeks ago while on the hayride at the petting zoo (with three of the Sweeties). But the mother was modest and the world didn’t end. As long as it’s not the Super Bowl halftime show, who cares?
Link via Electablog.
In my opinion, a hungry baby screaming at the top of his lungs because he wants to nurse NOW is a lot more disturbing than a glimpse of female breast. For example, if women are discreet, why should they have to sit (or stand) in the ladies room of a restaurant nursing the baby while their dinner gets cold? (They are expected to in many places.) It seems a lot of members of our society (especially some men) have forgotten why women have breasts in the first place.