Even with a knoweldge of the law he might of said the same thing. The thing is, is if you were breastfeeding discretly I don't think they would've come up to you and told you not to do it.
Our society has so sexualized the breast that they cannot see it for any other purpose then a sexual one.
On my airline I have often seen mothers nursing their children (and I work for a pretty high class airline) None of my coworkers would ever dare (or at least I hope not as I have never seen it), tell a mother to stop feeding her child.
When I worked at the amusment park I would often see mothers breastfeeding there as well, again no one would tell them to stop.
I know there have been some incidents, but really whatever ones personal feelings are of the issue; I find it extremely tacky and rude to go up to a mother and tell her to stop feeding her child. It should be a miss manners rule or something that it's just something you don't do. I mean it's obvious that the woman is feeding her child.
It's strange that it's such an issue, but our society has many issues when it comes to the human body.
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Date: 2008-03-26 06:02 pm (UTC)Our society has so sexualized the breast that they cannot see it for any other purpose then a sexual one.
On my airline I have often seen mothers nursing their children (and I work for a pretty high class airline)
None of my coworkers would ever dare (or at least I hope not as I have never seen it), tell a mother to stop feeding her child.
When I worked at the amusment park I would often see mothers breastfeeding there as well, again no one would tell them to stop.
I know there have been some incidents, but really whatever ones personal feelings are of the issue; I find it extremely tacky and rude to go up to a mother and tell her to stop feeding her child. It should be a miss manners rule or something that it's just something you don't do. I mean it's obvious that the woman is feeding her child.
It's strange that it's such an issue, but our society has many issues when it comes to the human body.