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

  • Ideology [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    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.

    • CrimsonDynamo [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      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...