Not even for boobies

[Monkeyleg]

Wait a minute. You mean breasts can be used to feed babies?

I thought they were just for fun.

[Fitz]

Of course. Are you new to planet Earth? How do you pretend not to understand this?

If it helps you, though, I find male toplessness to be questionable, as well. Definitely something we should look into regulating.

You didn't answer the question.

Why is a bit of exposed breast for a woman feeding her kid obscene?

[Tuco]

... there's a curious idea that it's OK for adults to look at the bare breasts of random strangers. The attitude that it's also OK for adults to have sex willy-nilly is part of the same cultural trend...

Does that explain it?

It explains the process used to make the logic jump.
Much information is missing, but I don't require it.
Thank you.

I disagree with the connection between feeding babies and wanton fornication, but haven't got the time to get into it right now.
Maybe tonight, if the thread isn't locked by then.

Carry on.

[TommyGunn]

I see another on the horizon;

[Jocassee]

What about cleavage...?  Do you think that we should look into that     

PLEASE allow me to be on the committee in charge of looking into cleavage.

[MechAg94]

PLEASE allow me to be on the committee in charge of looking into cleavage.

Okay, you are assigned as the liason to the AARP for individual judgements on cleavage legality. 

[Fitz]

feeding babies in public will inevitably lead to Sodom and Gommorrah levels of fornication.

[Nick1911]

Oh noes, women using their bodies to preform basic biological functions that happen to involve a secondary sexual characteristic that's been put on some forbidden fruit pedestal by my own biases!

I'm offended!  Restrict their freedoms!  Regulate!

...

Freedom (Noun) 1: the quality or state of being free: as  A: the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action

[RoadKingLarry]

Yet another reason women shouldn't be in the military
Or- this thread is useless without pics.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/05/31/parental-pride-or-indecent-exposure-photos-military-women-breastfeeding-in/

[makattak]

Oh noes, women using their bodies to preform basic biological functions that happen to involve a secondary sexual characteristic that's been put on some forbidden fruit pedestal by my own biases!

I'm offended!  Restrict their freedoms!  Regulate!

...

So what's your stance on public urination? (And I'm aware of the pun involved there.)

[Balog]

So what's your stance on public urination? (And I'm aware of the pun involved there.)

You don't see a difference between waste elimination and breastfeeding?

[Fitz]

So what's your stance on public urination? (And I'm aware of the pun involved there.)

For starters, eating vs disposing of waste.

2nd, A person capable of deciding to urinate in public is capable of making the decision not to, or to find a discreet location.

A baby doesn't know (or care about) any of these ridiculous taboos involving breasts, and they are hungry and helpless. When it's time to eat, it's time to eat.

Totally different than some dude pissing on a lamppost.

[Tuco]

So what's your stance on public urination? (And I'm aware of the pun involved there.)

I like elephants.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

PLEASE allow me to be on the committee in charge of looking into cleavage.

we'll put an additive in your food before we do that     you won't like it

[vaskidmark]

we'll put an additive in your food before we do that     you won't like it

He might not like it, but there will be those who will go out of their way to collect his pee so they can make gunpowder. 

stay safe.

[SteveS]

You don't see a difference between waste elimination and breastfeeding?

Reminds me of the time one of my friends was discretely breastfeeding her baby and some busybody suggested she "go do that in the bathroom."  She asked him if he typically ate his meals in the bathroom.

Chalk me up as one of those people who doesn't see the big deal about breastfeeding in public.  I have yet to see someone that was not discrete, so I really don't understand why this is such a big deal.

[Perd Hapley]

I disagree with the connection between feeding babies and wanton fornication

I didn't know there was one. I'm pretty sure you know it's the bared breast I was talking about, rather than the breast-feeding itself.

I trust you do see the connection between the sophisticateder-than-thou (stt) talking point, "Oh, sex between consenting adults is no big deal," and the stt talking point that goes, "Why do the rubes get so worked up? It's just a breast. It's just a breast." (I hate to bring up the Janet Jackson Super Bowl appearance again, but it's just such a classic example.) Both are attitudes which dismiss traditional mores as unreasonable, without providing any reason against them.

Reminds me of the time one of my friends was discretely breastfeeding her baby and some busybody suggested she "go do that in the bathroom."  She asked him if he typically ate his meals in the bathroom.

Chalk me up as one of those people who doesn't see the big deal about breastfeeding in public.  I have yet to see someone that was not discrete, so I really don't understand why this is such a big deal.

I also think that businesses can accommodate breast-feeding without offending other customers. Or even offending other customers and just accepting the loss of business. But then, I'm also crazy enough to think that people could successfully argue for such accommodation without pretending that they have a right to whip them out, regardless of others' ideas on the matter.

[French G.]

Spain=billboard size ad for lotion, fully topless lass. No one died. I did however really want to moisturize. We are way too prudish in this country. You wanna outlaw something indecent? Put a max size limit on spandex and speedos. Leave mom alone.

[BlueStarLizzard]

I find this whole arguement hystarical as my friend who recently had a baby had some issues breast feeding in "public". The problem was not people being offended, but people walking up and staring into her vehical while she was trying to descreatly feed her child.  

Luckly, my friend had pretty much lost her modesty after the whole childbirth thing, and still hadn't regained it, so she just didn't care, other then to point out how stupid and obnoxious people could be.

I think the line is, is she feeding her kid or is she using the feeding of kid to expose herself? And since that is impossible to regulate, we need to just forget about that and move on.
Feeding babies trumps public exposure.

[Balog]

If you're offended by a mom breastfeeding, that's a little thing we like to call "Your Own Damn Problem."

I also point out that traditional social mores have no issue with breastfeeding.

I'll also also point out that I used to wonder about truth of the accounts of hysterical idiots in Victorian England who insisted on putting coverings on their table's legs lest any be offended/tempted by the sight of a wooden stand in for that bit of anatomy. Then I met fistful...

[makattak]

You don't see a difference between waste elimination and breastfeeding?

I do. However Nick's cry for  FFREEEEDOMMMM!!!!!! only spoke of biological functions. Both are natural functions with a secondary sexual purpose. If you have a problem with the exposure of one, why not the other?

As for babies having to have their food NOW, Fitz, you know very well you can gauge when a child is likely to get hungry and no child will be harmed by waiting five minutes to get fed when he is hungry.

I also will state I have no problems with discreet breastfeeding. In case people aren't aware, there are even wonderful, light covers that allow a woman to breastfeed with very little chance of exposing herself, even while sitting on a park bench in the sunshine.

[Monkeyleg]

Of all of the issues one could discuss and start to engage in personal attacks, breast feeding isn't one that would, for me, come to mind. Nonetheless, it seems like some of you are managing to pull it off. So please knock it off.

[Balog]

Mak: and you wish to empower the Modesty Police to make sure she's wearing her burka and hijab determine when a woman is being discrete enough? Also, where is this "five minute" time frame you speak of coming from, and is the problem of a baby not being able to eat when it is hungry somehow less than the potential discomfort one might experience at the horrific sight of a woman feeding her child? You are also aware that 1. some babies won't feed under a cover 2. they can become dangerously warm depending on ambient temp 3. babies loooove to grab and remove those things.

It's funny, in the "traditional mores" some here are so enamored of, in a situation where a lecherous man was staring at a woman breastfeeding it would be the man who was in trouble. Odd, that.

[Nick1911]

So what's your stance on public urination? (And I'm aware of the pun involved there.)

Penis' aren't secondary sexual characteristics. [1]  We're not talking about women exposing their vagina's to the public, we're talking about breasts.  So, an male equivalent would be something as scandalous as a man exposing his Adams apple in public.

[makattak]

Penis' aren't secondary sexual characteristics. [1]  We're not talking about women exposing their vagina's to the public, we're talking about breasts.  So, an male equivalent would be something as scandalous as a man exposing his Adams apple in public.

I wasn't aware Adam's apples had a secondary sexual function.

You could compare it to a man baring his butt in public. What's the law on that?

And as for the "modesty police" I'd like similar considerations to inadvertent exposure of concealed firearms to apply to inadvertent exposure while breastfeeding.

Also, babies that can pull a cover off are babies that can wait a few minutes. And I seriously doubt being under the cover of my wife's nursing cover holds any danger of overheating.

As for the man being in trouble for lecherously staring at any woman, I'm opposed to criminalizing thought. I do support social disapprobation for that, though.