Breastfeeding rights and normalization are one of those less visible aspects of sex/gender discrimination and it's nice to see push-back.
Breastfeeding rights and normalization are one of those less visible aspects of sex/gender discrimination and it's nice to see push-back.
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...