I found this on my old blog that I’ve slowly been importing here, but I thought it was cute so I am adding it as a new entry.
I’m thankful for not having boobs thrown in my face all the time by offensive and indecent breastfeeding mothers like the ones below:
Wait…Well, this is a bad example. Let’s try again.
Hmm…Just a minute. I’m sure I can find better ones than these…
Eh, still not offensive enough. I’ll check one more time.
That is better. LOOK AT THAT! I see about a half inch of boob. DISGUSTING.
UGH. Look at that indecency! She must be from some third world country to be exposed like that!
Now that’s just…There are no words to describe how inappropriate that is. Something needs to be done!
But why stop at breasfeeding women? There are boobs everywhere. Beware! If you thought the above photos were offensive, you WILL DEFINITELY be offended by the photos below.
Not this one, though. This one was in plain view on news stands and in mail boxes in 19 countries world wide!
Not this one, either. This one actually won an award!
Oh, and I guess this one is fine too. Everyone knows you can’t sell jeans without someone being topless.
Or beer, for that matter.
Or sunglasses.
Or CDs…
You know what? Maybe I’m crazy, but I think that someone mixed up some photos here. The first batch are offensive, but the second batch are just fine and dandy???
People who live in glass bras:
Shouldn’t throw stones:
If you think women have the right to breastfeed their children no matter where they are, please repost this… anywhere and everywhere. Support breastfed babies and their right to eat in public!
EDIT: Holy Canolis! I had no idea this would get any attention at all! When I originally posted it 2 years ago nobody noticed!
I’m currently on my 3rd tour of breastfeeding duty and I support all women in all their breastfeeding endeavors! I have never had a problem breastfeeding in public and I do it so discreetly you most likely wouldn’t even notice I was doing it. People usually think I’m just holding my baby. Only once was I ever asked to cover up in a restaurant and I told the manager to go eat his dinner with a blanket over his head..
Thanks to everyone for the comments and the awesome support of breastfeeding!
2nd EDIT: I only have about 40 minutes while my little one’s nap and I still need to shower.. and there are SOOO many comments to respond to. I just had to add some more thoughts..
The pictures of breastfeeding women posted above, while beautiful, are not an example of what every single woman does when they find themselves needing to feed their child out in public.
Yes, I agree women should be discreet. I think people are forgetting that breastfeeding women are just as human as the people who are so offended by them. None of my kids would eat with a blanket on their heads, and I know a lot of other women that find their children reacting the same way to being covered with a blanket while trying to eat. They don’t like it, wont eat and will scream instead. Some kids pull the blanket off, some pull up moms shirt, sometimes mom forgets the blanket or nursing cover and the list goes on.. but babies still need to eat. If mothers in america (cause let’s face it, it’s only here that everything under the sun is sexualized) didn’t feed their babies because of modesty or forgotten blankets everyone would be all up in arms over that.
When I head out I pull on a breastfeeding tank top and throw my shirt on over it. When I lift up my shirt and open the nursing tank to feed my child you would have to be resting your head on my baby’s chin in order to even see the sliver of skin exposed. Now how is that possibly being offensive to anyone? Seriously, if you are that uncomfortable seeing my child eat, don’t look.
What if women still didn’t have the option of using formula? When my grandmother was still alive she told me how formula used to be something you had to get a doctor’s prescription for and they didn’t recommend it unless there was a medical issue and the mother could not breastfeed at all. If it were still that way today, would all women be expected to just sit in the house for a year or two to feed their child? Thats obviously ridiculous…
The variables on circumstance here are just about endless, bottom line is all babies deserve to eat wherever the heck they are. I bet moms who use formula would be mighty pissed if they were asked to go bottlefeed their child on a toilet seat, or to smother them with a blanket while they ate.
Fact is, the law is on the side of the breastfed child. With very few exceptions, women in this country are allowed to breastfeed on just about every publicly and privately owned piece of land.
Next time you see a woman feeding her child and you really think she is over exposing herself, why not say hello? Why not offer to stand in front of her? Maybe she forgot her cover, maybe she accidentally wore the wrong shirt, maybe she is exhausted and doesn’t realize her shirt rose up too high or maybe she is sitting there wishing people would stop looking at her like she just shot the pope!
Recently someone actually did that for me. While out for a walk with family and friends, the baby was fussing in the stroller.. that ‘I NEED to eat’ fussing. So I found a sorta secluded rock on the edge of someone’s property and plopped down to feed my little man. Of course I was not exactly dressed for nursing, so some of my belly was exposed. Not 30 seconds after I sat down another mom that was walking by noticed what I was doing (even though it was getting dark) and walked over. She laughed and said “do you need some cover?” and pushed my stroller over a bit to block me and stood and talked with me. It was nice.. made me think the world wasn’t half bad after all…
And once again, thanks to everyone that commented and everyone that reccommended this post!
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@hatcherbee – of course it does because people are idiots and they need something to bitch about so they find something, no matter how stupid it may be
Breast feeding is great… my wife and I can’t have children but she still lets me breastfeed. She says no in public though.Maybe this will change her mind
@IMChurchmouse – If baby is hungry, baby has to eat no matter where we are – no butt’s about it. I don’t live my life at full tilt, but sometimes you have to be out of the comfort and privacy of home and you can’t always plan things around a baby’s feeding schedule. I certainly can’t sit in the house 24/7 for a year.
Great entry!
Happy you made this post.I would love for someone to say something to me about breastfeeding my daughter out in public.The media shows so much already,honestly whats the big deal about feeing your child?It is no way a “sexual act” or a seducing one for that matter.I breastfeed my daughter til she was 13 months old,no formula and I intend to do the same with this next baby.
Thank you for this! I tour am serving my 3rd tour and loving breastfeeding….whenever and wherever! Awesome post!
Great post!My mom breastfeeds my baby sister in public all the time and people usually think she is sleeping.
haha, aptly timed… facebook recently banned breastfeeding photos
@oOKrAzyALuRrOo – I never used formula either.. my youngest two never even had a bottle! My daughter only just stopped too, just as she turned 2 a few weeks ago! Good for you, making it 13 months!
totally agree with you…This was a good post. Thanks for putting it out there.
You’ve compiled pictures that perfectly demonstrate what I’ve always thought about folks who are offended by breastfeeding moms. @MooncatBlue – I think you have it right on. People are so far removed from their own biology they forget – This is what breasts are FOR. Not for Rolling Stone covers, for BREASTFEEDING.I’ve not been a breastfeeding mom for about five years now, but I must have a picture or two I could post on Facebook….
OMG…this is so true and I am going to repost. I am a breastfeeding mommy who is going to be working on my 4th tour, so I agree.
Thanks for posting this! When I read the title I was a little sad, and afraid I’d be looking at a rant against breastfeeding. Oh, the wonders of sarcasm!I’m also on my “third tour” of breastfeeding. It makes me so happy to know that I’ve given my kids the very best start in life possible. Usually I do cover up with a blanket, because there are plenty of people out there who get offended by ridiculous things. But, there have been plenty of times when I didn’t have a blanket with me; and honestly, would you rather have a screaming baby in the next booth or one discreetly nursing with my shirt covering most of the “offensive bits?”
tits are great .
@TheJoyfulCynic – Are you saying all babies shouldn’t eat in public or just the ones fed naturally?
And here I am having not the decency to stop looking. LoLThings like that do not fase people anymore that much but could be anoying ,For one your breastfeeding the child and a kid got to eat no matter what.On the other side your giving away free peeks at your boobs the choice is what weights the most.And I geuss a mom is mom that does her best effort choosing whats important. ( thank you mom)No I don’t mind.
@ColleenaMareena – I usually have a nursing tank on under my shirt when I’m out .. there usually isn’t any skin showing at all. Honestly though, I do that cause I don’t want people to have to see my flabby stretchmarked body.. haha my kids never liked/like blankets and always pull em off.. specially my daughter, right from the start she would rip it off and fling it.. I gave up on blankets and think I do a really good job of covering the “offensive bits” without one.. haha
I you. May I adopt you?
You’re right. You can’t detest breastfeeding without detesting the other.
I don’t think it is too much to ask for women to bring a blanket or something when feeding. I think it is just common and decent thing to do. I’m also not for it to be all up in magazines either. I’m also all for Facebooks ban on breastfeeding pictures. If you want to take pictures of that, fine. But don’t be posting it and it showing up on my wall. Then I have to worry about “work safe” stuff just by opening my Facebook. I think breastfeeding is a beautiful thing to be shared by a family and a healthy thing for a mother to do for her child. It is needed, but respect for others is also needed in this society.
you’re gay. moms can feed their children how they like.
I agree! Great post.
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i love you!!!!!!!!!!!! :) i just had my first and i am fighting a lot of frustration over this. thank you!!
You make great points in this blog… but there is a difference, no one is sucking on the breasts of the women in the ads. I myself don’t have a problem at all with a mother breast feeding their child anywhere… even in public, but I don’t think it is necessary for the whole boob to be hanging out.
THANK YOU!!
I think it’s because people in this country are used to packaging everything, including breastmilk, although I saw one example where packaged breastmilk is donated to Africa.
I really think it’s the mother’s choice on breastfeeding, and if it’s going to be done in public (which I just wouldn’t be able to do…too much exposure and everything like that) I feel there should be a blanket or something covering the exposure.Seeing pictures of it doesn’t bother me…but the other day I was somewhere and I saw this woman’s areola while she was breastfeeding and I felt that I was invading her personal space and seeing a part of her I should never see.
@hatcherbee – I’m saying that if I own a piece of property, I can make everyone who wants to step onto it to wear pink and sing ‘ring around the rosie’ if I wish to. If I own a piece of land, and I place a restaurant on it, it is MY decision whether to allow a woman to breastfeed while she is on MY property. If you don’t like it, go somewhere else. Simple as that.That said, if I DID own a restaurant, I’d let whoever wanted to breastfeed go ahead and breastfeed. Don’t mind it at all. But a private individual who owns a private piece of property DOES have the right to set rules about what is done on THEIR land.
I think women have the right to breast-feed their babies anywhere…but I think they can still do it with modesty and decency…and as for those ads…they are TERRIBLY offensive…and it is just a shame that our culture is still objectifying women so openly. The “sexual revolution” did not free women, it just furthered the objectification and dehumanization of women.
Cheers!
Fantastic post! I think it’s great when my wife walks thru Walmart breatfeeding our baby and I watch the disdainful stares of other women.
Lol… its sooo ridiculous that people get “offended” by Mothers breastfeeding. Why? What part of anatomy and natural human instinct is so -disgusting?-
That was really great, i agree with you completely.
Yeah thanks,I just refused to give up..but 13 months I was like ok,you have molers now,I am done ahahahahaha.I tell you though,I wouldn’t change the bond for anything.Emma loves her Milkus..thats what we called it lol.
@oOKrAzyALuRrOo – haha that’s so funny, my Willow calls it Milks!
Awwww man… I thought I was gonna see boobs!!! (just so you know… I don’t necessarily agree…)
Sex is a “natural” thing, doesn’t mean I want to see people banging in the store when I go out in public. Same for taking a shit. Natural? Sure. Is it something that should be done in public? Fxck no. All this post does is try to compare mothers to models, like it’s somehow hot to be a mom. It’s not. Get over yourself. You’re not a model trying to sell something, you’re a mom.
Women should never be banned from breast feeding in public, but I think they should at least try to cover up with a blanket if they can.
haha this is a great post!!
I’m sorry, but breastfeeding in public is gross. I don’t really care to see any boobs hanging out in public; breastfeeding or not. It’s too intimate for the public eye, no matter how practical for baby and mom. I support breastfeeding and all but please! Keep your tits to yourself….oh yeah and your baby.
I encountered a woman breast feeding on the bus once or twice. It was too awkward for my young mind to take, but now that I’m older, I think it’s beautiful!
Keep it up! I support you!
Such an excellent way to express an excellent point. Clever….
Well, obviously sunglasses are directly linked to boobs.
i completely agree with you. I’m a teen mom and i breastfed my daughter for about 9 months. I’d for course always get snooty looks from people just for having a child, but especially when I’d nurse her in public. Breastfeeding shouldn’t be a problem, I mean come on now, we’re feeding babies!
I completely agree. babies need to eat, and that’s what boobs are for. the sexual connotations of boobs only came about afterward. it’s like saying forks are obscene because we put them in our mouths and they’re only two letters off from a dirty word. I’m not a mother yet, but I fully intend to breastfeed when I do become one.
Breastfeeding is beautiful, except for the fourth one, ick. Have some limits. As long as the child is on decent age to be fed that way (under a year, people!) then it’s all good.
I told the manager to go eat his dinner with a blanket over his head.. lol and that goes for everyone who finds it offensive and/or obscene!