Breastfeeding rights and normalization are one of those less visible aspects of sex/gender discrimination and it's nice to see push-back.
The correct response. It's creepy to stare at people if they're minding their own dang business.
excuse me, is that a female nipple? this is absolutely obscene, i cannot believe you would post such horrific imagery
shopping over the female nipple with a male nipple and posting it, take that mods
Imagine what kind of weirdo pervert you would have to be to see anything sexual in breastfeeding. It's a baby eating, it's one of the least erotic things there is.
but booba how can our good Christian society just tolerate a... woman... in public... with exposed breast? :le-pol-face:
That's the double edged sword of being open to any and all fetishes, and not "kink shaming"
I don't know the answer here, and I agree with you, but the simple fact remains. There exist people who get turned on by this. Normalization is a long and conflicting road.
I'm not sure the people who object to it get turned on by it. I think they just have a superiority complex or a moral stick up their ass that compels them to call out "Un-Christian values" behavior to inflate their own ego. Like there's nothing sexual about being mad at skateboarders or PoC grilling at the park but these things can invoke the same huge overreactions in people who care about the "civility" of society. Most of them probably don't even know about the kink and just equate "not being private enough about your skin = bad".
Definitely. There is a number of people that do though, and if we want to normalize breastfeeding in public, it's going to be a thing. A boob is a boob to some people. They can't separate the two things.
I'm in favor of normalizing, and realistically, it shouldn't have to be a thing that gets covered up. I think that using a blanket is a great way to disarm any "decency" argument. What could they say? "Ma'am, I know your boob is naked under that blanket and it's upsetting". It's the same amount of being exposed as wearing a wool sweater
I don't see the big deal, either, honestly. One time in public, there wasn't a lot of seating and I was hanging out in the corner away from foot traffic. A family showed up to a nearby chair, mom started breastfeeding (she was in a hijab so not sure a blanket would have helped, really). I turned my head for privacy, but didn't immediately leave cause people usually feel bad for making you uncomfy when you stand up right away. Like etiquette is not hard, it doesn't hurt you. Sometimes not being racist or sexist is just shutting up and minding your business.
Though now that I think about it, I have seen other people use blankets but it sounds like it'd be awful in summer.
The turning your head and minding your own business thing is really the solution to so much of this culture war stuff. I'd like to live in a world where people didn't feel compelled to have to cover themselves because of busy bodies, but here we are.
I really think we are just programmed to play this same tug of war forever. I think that if you look back through antiquity, you will notice that we have been basically been fighting a version of these fights since we came down from the trees. Not "you", the indefinite you...
NSFW in the literal way of “You don’t want your boss looking over your shoulder seeing this while you’re at work”
I agree with the comic but as another person mentioned I feel like marking it NSFW kinda contradicts the entire message here. If there's something I'm not considering let me know.
It's simply down to what Not Safe For Work means. I don't consider it obscene, nor would I expect do most of the people here. A boss, coworker, or passerby might view it as obscene and create problems for whoever is looking at it. I am only marking it NSFW as a courtesy to anyone who might be looking at it at work or in public. It's to protect my fellow Hexbears, not because there's anything obscene about breasts or breastfeeding.
Thanks for letting me know! I was just realizing that as you posted it. Somehow I had forgotten the entire literal meaning of NSFW as something you wouldn't a boss or coworker to see you looking at.
I legit forgot who Joan Cornella was for a sec and then I found this beautiful meme template.
Ban all images of babies. Babies imply sex and I don't want to think of that.
This reminds me of when I worked in a "natural" grocery store.
I still can't figure out which would be better, just openly breastfeeding with no covering or having a blanket for "politeness."
I'm pretty sure I don't have any problems with it, but I'd be on the aisle stocking shelves with my brain pretty much on standby mode and somebody would be breastfeeding their kid but with a towel or blanket casually over their shoulder covering themselves.
It would always look... just out of the ordinary enough that I would find myself paying attention until my brain could figure out what what going on. I'd like to think that it didn't take more than a few seconds to figure it out not come off like I was being a creep but I sometimes wonder that I might have.
