Breastfeeding in class

[Askthepizzaguy]

You know how I know society can get along just fine, and function exactly as properly as it does now, or even moreso, without this puerile fascination with seeing and/or covering breasts?

Because even primitive man saw human breasts without throwing a childish hissy fit about it.

It's pretty bad when cavemen behave in a more civilized fashion than you.

It's a teat. Get over it.

 

[warpus]

the thing is the same argument can be used to require women to veil themselves...

Not really.

There's a reason why professors don't teach in the nude. You just wouldn't learn anything.

 

[JollyRoger]

Not really.

There's a reason why professors don't teach in the nude. You just wouldn't learn anything.

Many here would learn what a real life nude woman looked like.

 

[Askthepizzaguy]

She's hardly nude.

I'm guessing she was otherwise fully dressed and that the child, and this is just a guess, because all I know is she was breastfeeding, had it's face and head covering her nipple, which is the only part of the breast people throw a stink over anymore, in the age of bikinis and side-boob shots.

So the naughty part, the part that everyone had to suckle from to sustain their very life at one point, that part was covered.

I've seen a person breastfeed before. It's hardly a distracting or erotic experience.

Take notes on what the professor is saying. Look at your textbook, look at the whiteboard, look at her face, look at the back of the baby's head. There's nothing even remotely offensive going on.

 

[GhostWriter16]

I still don't understand why conservatives would be against breastfeeding to begin with. It seems in their 'pro-family' interests.

Agreed.

 

[Lot In Space]

Yeah, I guess, but it'd still be very distracting for the students. As someone who paid tuition, I would want to get the most out of every class.

You should try multitasking. How hard can it be for you to learn and enjoy the wonderful nature of a woman feeding her baby at the same time?

 

[Birdjaguar]

Sorry that doesn't work here as working women in the real world don't have the ability to take their children with them to work on a whim much less have the option of allowing them to become a physical distraction while at work.

This

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Mothers in my company bring kids to work all the time. Life is tough enough and making an office family friendly has a big payoff in happier employees who work harder other times.

 

[History_Buff]

This one hits my 'well that's a weird thing to do' button, but I can't say I really care.

Personally I'd just love to know if she kept (presumably) lecturing during the feeding. I think it would be absolutely hysterical if she just kept teaching and refused to acknowledge the child hanging off her breast. Would be quite surreal.

 

[JollyRoger]

Fondling breasts was a part of my study routine as an undergrad.

 

[LucyDuke]

Canceling class seems the worst choice. b I do not see why it is even an option when you have the solution of teaching the class, through example, about real world problems faced by working women.

Mothers in my company bring kids to work all the time. Life is tough enough and making an office family friendly has a big payoff in happier employees who work harder other times.

Yeah, I think my first post was wrong. I'm not a big fan of children being in public places, but it's screwed up to demand that someone choose between their work and their kid in a situation like this where the kid won't be very disruptive. It should be avoided where possible. We can put up with it when it can't.

 

[caketastydelish]

Better learn about it before you marry one.

I would never marry a feminist, and presumably, Quackers feels the same way.

 

[Camikaze]

Mothers in my company bring kids to work all the time. Life is tough enough and making an office family friendly has a big payoff in happier employees who work harder other times.

If mothers are in a situation where they are having to bring their children to work, because they have no viable alternatives, I'd be questioning the adequacy of support they are receiving (e.g. maternity leave).

Though that's not relevant to a case where the mother just really didn't want to miss that particular day.

 

[JollyRoger]

I would never marry a feminist, and presumably, Quackers feels the same way.

Sounds like you two have enough in common to consider tying the knot.

 

[caketastydelish]

Sounds like you two have enough in common to consider tying the knot.

Most of your one-liners are something of substance, but that was rather sub-par.

 

[GhostWriter16]

I would never marry a feminist, and presumably, Quackers feels the same way.

How are you defining "Feminist"?

Most of your one-liners are something of substance, but that was rather sub-par.

No, none of them are.

*Rubble from wall*

 

[JollyRoger]

It is really taxing to have to read more than one line when one will do.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Jolly doesn't feel the need to carry the rhetorical bricks necessary to properly counter your great walls of text.

 

[JollyRoger]

Mr. Ghostwriter, tear down that wall.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Or hire a bunch of free loading welfare queens to do it for you. They need jobs to stop mooching off your wealth.

 

[caketastydelish]

Are the two of you having fun with this?