Breastfeeding in public or on someone else's private property?

Is breastfeeding in public okay?

  • Yes, anywhere at anytime

    Votes: 65 40.9%

  • Yes, but keep it discreet

    Votes: 39 24.5%

  • Yes, but not if you're on private property and the owner or agent of the owner objects

    Votes: 23 14.5%

  • No, do it at home

    Votes: 8 5.0%

  • BOOBIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Votes: 24 15.1%
  • Total voters
    159
LesCanadiens

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So, there was this department store in Vancouver where some woman breastfed her kid out in the open, and store clerks politely asked her to move into one of the changing rooms so she could be discreet about it. She went home and immediately organized a "feed-in" where about 150 women who don't know how to use contraceptives marched into the store and stood there breastfeeding (ie. using their children as tools for a political stunt). Personally, I don't see why asking her to move into a changing room was an unreasonable compromise, since the store would have been satisfied by having it done privately and the woman wouldn't have to be inconvenienced by being forced to leave the store.

What do you think about this incident in particular and breastfeeding in public in general?

Poll coming.
 
Sounds like a proportionate response to petty anachronistic stupidity. She was feeding her baby. Feeding babies takes priority over protecting the archaic sensibilities of losers. If people are so terrified of seeing breasts they should bury their heads in the ground and leave the rest of us in peace.
 
Enkidu Warrior said:
Sounds like a proportionate response to petty anachronistic stupidity. She was feeding her baby. Feeding babies takes priority over protecting the archaic sensibilities of losers. If people are so terrified of seeing breasts they should bury their heads in the ground and leave the rest of us in peace.
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Does that mean you think we should all be able to run around in public naked with our privates flapping in the wind? I mean, if people are so terrified of seeing a penis on the bus they should bury their heads in the ground and leave the rest of us in peace.
 
It seems to me equivalent to farting in public or scratching your ass: i.e. something to be frowned upon and preferably done somewhere else (such as a dressing room), but probably not to be enforced.
 
WTH is wrong with you people...
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No one wants to see some womans saggy milk-filled tit. Unless you like that sort of thing, in which case I should be asking you WTH is wrong with you.
 
A woman breast feeding her child is A-OK.

What's wrong with a baby having lunch?
 
Mise said:
A woman breast feeding her child is A-OK.

What's wrong with a baby having lunch?
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What's wrong with having to take off your pants in order to urinate?

How about what's wrong with taking off your clothes since it's a very hot day?
 
Alpine Trooper said:
Why is this story an issue in a province where showing your breasts in public is legal?
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I wasn't aware that it was. Could you link me to a website that says it is? Preferably a BC government website, but a reputable private website is fine too.
 
LesCanadiens said:
Does that mean you think we should all be able to run around in public naked with our privates flapping in the wind? I mean, if people are so terrified of seeing a penis on the bus they should bury their heads in the ground and leave the rest of us in peace.
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People feed their babies on buses with their penises?

Seriously though, your question is an interesting one, but one that I see as much more disputable and entirely seperate.

It's just plain offensive for you to expect that I'm supposed to care more about your 'distress' at seeing my breasts than about my babies needs. If we're talking about some whimsical desire to run around 'with my privates flapping in the wind', then sure we have a genuine conflict that's worth weighing carefully, but what exactly is so horrifying about seeing breasts that justifies inconveniencing a mother and baby in any way whatsoever? Mothers and babies deserve overwhelming accomodation, prudes deserve at best mockery.

The private property angle is again a bit of a seperate issue. All I'll say is a department store and someone's house are very different kinds of private property. Much as the stoneheaded libertarians will raise howls, stores open to the public have certain obligations towards their customers that prudes in their own homes aren't subject to.
 
I chose the Private Property with consent of owner. I think that Boob-in was unessaccary and showed incredibly poor taste. Probably a teen mother.

What's wrong with a baby having lunch?
Nothing as long as its Baby food. Whats wrong with continuing the species? Nothing as long as it is in private. I don't have a problem with women breast feeding in private or public, however some people do and it wouldn't hurt to honor their wishes.
 
Defiant47 said:
What's wrong with having to take off your pants in order to urinate?

How about what's wrong with taking off your clothes since it's a very hot day?
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What the hell are you talking about?

What has this got to do with babies having lunch?
 
Mise said:
A woman breast feeding her child is A-OK.

What's wrong with a baby having lunch?
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Nothing, but just as it's rather impolite to be eating lunch yourself in the middle of a departement store, so is it to breastfeed. Imo having to go to a dressing room isn't too big a hassle and should be the generally accepted compromise.
 
Does anyone else find it funny that this happened in an underwear store of all places? You think these people would see so many tits in their day to day life anyways.
 
Cato the Elder said:
Nothing, but just as it's rather impolite to be eating lunch yourself in the middle of a departement store, so is it to breastfeed. Imo having to go to a dressing room isn't too big a hassle and should be the generally accepted compromise.
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How is that a "compromise"? What is it a compromise between?
 
Defiant47 said:
What's wrong with having to take off your pants in order to urinate?
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I don't know how it is in Canada but over here urinating in public is illegal.
How about what's wrong with taking off your clothes since it's a very hot day?
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To some extent yes but wearig shorts and a T-shirt isn't much warmer than wearing nothing at al.
 
Mise said:
What the hell are you talking about?

What has this got to do with babies having lunch?
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Probably the fact that nudity is involved with both scenarios...? :confused:

People do not object to babies "having lunch." They're objecting to the nudity. It does not matter what the activity for the nudity is, nudity is nudity and should not be excused because "a baby is having lunch." There are many different options available to hungry babies that don't even involve the mother waving her flappy breasts around a department store. A mother could sit in the middle of a store feeding her child pumped breast milk via a bottle and no one would care a whit, so the argument is not that people are upset about a child "having lunch."

Being discreet about breastfeeding is not unreasonable.
 
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