Are you sure YOU want to go there? Where? To the fact that you just made public what a hypocrite you are. For you it’s ok for women to have a ton of cleavage bursting out of a skimpy top, push up bras, implants, tassels, you name it, everything to turn your boobs into sex objects. Then you turn around and say women should be able to go bare brested in public while breastfeeding and no one should think of your boobs sexually and the men who look are pervs! So YOU get to dictate when men can look at your boobs sexually and when they must turn it off… and YOU dictate they must turn it off when you flash your boobs in public with a baby sucking on them! What a perfect hypocrite you are!

I think we can see where you are headed. Men should think of your boobs to the degree that makes YOU comfortable according to the way YOU are thinking of YOUR boobs at any given time. You, no doubt, are a charter member of the Thought Police.

I’m so sorry you had this horrible experience. Sometimes, when I breastfeed in public (without a blanket because my son would pull it down anyway), I catch men staring. At first, when I was still new to this, I used to feel uncomfortable. Now I just stare back at them, until they get the message and look away.

Are you really sure you want to go there? What exactly are you saying then. Women shouldn’t be allowed to breastfeed in public, AND they shouldn’t be allowed to wear clothes they want in public.

I think we can see where that is headed. Women should cover themselves to the degree that makes YOU comfortable.

Very Interesting.

And fortunately NOT something women have to worry about in this day and age in Canada, the US and many other countries.

I can see myself gathering my courage to approach someone obviously in pain and offering the only thing I can think of that might possibly address some minor component contributing to her upset–”I brought a blanket, I don’t know if it might help. I brought it ’cause some women prefer to have one and you didn’t have one, and I thought maybe you’d like it even if you were too tired and discouraged to ask for one.” She offered it. You take it as implied criticism and an unvoiced request that you cover up, but it is perfectly possible, by the story recounted here, that it was the only thing she could get you and so she did. It didn’t help you. In fact, you’re hurt at the thought. But it might simply have been compassion for you. I hate crying in public. I’d have been glad for any barrier shielding me from the world, and if the offer of one was prompted by me nursing my baby….it would still be an offer of something that would let me hide from the world while I wanted it to go away.

The LAW is that women have the right to breastfeed in public without being told to go to the restroom, cover up, or anything else.

If you see someone breastfeeding you do not have to look. And I guarantee that in the VAST majority of cases you will not being seeing even HALF as much breast or nipple as you see in magazines and on television (not even talking about cable and porn here. Look at any fashion magazine or tv show these days). There is a big baby head in the way.

And what makes you so squeegy about it anyway? It’s ok to see a ton of cleavage bursting out of a skimpy top but if there’s a baby getting food from it it’s all the sudden icky? Obscene? Dirty? What? It’s not sexual. It’s not gross. It’s how babies eat. Get over it.