Comments | telosphilos: farking hell

telosphilos

farking hell

Jun 30, 2006 14:14

I was reading over on Fark.com and they came up with a funny story about the La Leche League doing a nurse-in at Victoria's Secret because a manager was not well trained and told a mother not to nurse in their store. Corporate issues an apology and the manager gets a stern talking too.

( The sheer level of ignorance in the commentary got me to rant a little. Here's my little essay on the subject. )

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jenihe80 June 30 2006, 21:15:22 UTC

I'm all for breast feeding. Hell, if I ever decide to have kids they'll be breast fed. Public breast feeding doesn't offend me in the least (as long as they're not being completely indecent about it). However, some of the "boob nazis" (not my term :-D) on LJ think it's wrong to even ask a woman to cover up when breast feeding. "It's completely natural. And if I want to walk around topless while feeding my infant, it should be accepted". Yeah, someone on customers_suck actually said that in response to a post about a woman who was walking around a grocery store breast feeding with her boobs fully exposed. *eyeroll*

Anyway, the point of this rambling comment is that I agree with you. :)

telosphilos July 1 2006, 02:13:12 UTC

Yes, it is completely natural and short of a major wardrobe malfunction, you should try to be discrete. Hell, its completely natural to walk around naked and that sure isn't legal most of the time either. Only one boob needs to be exposed at a time lady. *sigh* People can be stupid.

iamzuul July 1 2006, 01:35:44 UTC

Nursing a baby is completely natural, and while I have to agree that (baring some basic ways to remain fairly decent like using a blanket because seriously, I don't care if I'm nursing a baby, no one needs to see my breast in public) nursing in public is great, I can't agree with how hard hospitals are starting to push breast feeding these days ( ... )

telosphilos July 1 2006, 02:10:51 UTC

We agree on all points. I don't much care if people see me feeding my baby in public and I've had plenty of occasion to prove it, but I do try to be discrete about it.

I'm very bothered by how hard they are pushing that trend. Frankly, breast-feeding is practical if you are with your baby all the time and not everyone can do that. Formula is a pretty good substitute. Women who go back to work really should bottle feed or supliment. I've spent over a year of my life with a baby on the teat at this point, there is just no way I could have done that if I had gone back to work.

New moms are often made to feel as if the medical industry is fault-finding. Post partum depression isn't just hormonal, the doctors can make it worse. My sister in law acted like her mommy card was going to get taken away when she didn't have enough milk. She still tries often and suppliments with formula for my neice, but part of that is because they get better benifits from WIC. Why does WIC even care?

lookfar February 19 2007, 12:27:50 UTC

Would you friend me?

I have to say -- I was a LLL leader for five years -- that no one in Northern Virginia has ever said boo to me about public breastfeeding. With my first, he was so cranky and needy we did it everywhere. I made him stop nursing in public when he was about 3 1/2, though, because I thought the effect was perplexing to people (what's that kid doing?). All I ever got was smiles from other moms. I can't figure out what bugs people so much, since you can't see any breast at all unless you are using a telescope.

telosphilos February 19 2007, 14:26:14 UTC

Where have I seen you before? Your name sounds familiar to me. I'm not terribly comfortable friending people out of the blue. I like having a context for where I met thus and such person. My lj is friends only for a reason ( ... )

lookfar February 20 2007, 01:59:14 UTC

Why, we've been in the same circle for ages. Probably because I think we're both friends of either Rickfan37 or Whitemunin or both. Maybe you read a fanfic I wrote called Jehane Desrosiers? I was on Snapecast! Do you know you me because I'm famis? You could look at my LJ (coax, coax). I want to enlarge my circle, and I run across your LJ comments sometimes and like what I read.

telosphilos February 20 2007, 02:16:39 UTC

Ah, it'd be Rickfan37's lj. Whitemunin and I don't talk much. I enjoy her fics, but she's never been on my flist.

I'm afraid my lj is usually pretty boring. I've been totally heads down in motherhood lately. My kids are the center of my world. I use lj to keep track of things since mommy brain set in. I used to have such a good memory, particularly in the short term. :)

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