The Applebee's thing
Mar. 26th, 2008 11:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tiffrobynSince several of you have commented or asked questions about the Applebee's thing I figured I would copy the post that I made in ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
breastfeeding
This weekend I was at an Applebee's in Gulfport, Mississippi. I wasn't familiar with the law regarding breastfeeding in Mississippi (I'm from Louisiana) so I asked the waitress if I could nurse my daughter at the table. She replied that she believed I could but wanted to check with her manager. The manager then approached me and asked me to use the ladies room. Seeing as how I don't like to feed my child where people poop, I opted just to go to the car. Well, when we got home I looked up the law in Mississippi and it states that women can breastfeed in public. Specifically, "A mother may breast-feed her child in any location, public or private, where the mother is otherwise authorized to be, without respect to whether the mother's breast or any part of it is covered during or incidental to the breast-feeding." So, I want to write a letter to Applebee's and let them know that the manager needs to be better informed of the law. You would think after all the publicity surrounding the nurse-ins of last year they would have educated the managers. Any suggestions on what to include in the letter?
breastfeedingThis weekend I was at an Applebee's in Gulfport, Mississippi. I wasn't familiar with the law regarding breastfeeding in Mississippi (I'm from Louisiana) so I asked the waitress if I could nurse my daughter at the table. She replied that she believed I could but wanted to check with her manager. The manager then approached me and asked me to use the ladies room. Seeing as how I don't like to feed my child where people poop, I opted just to go to the car. Well, when we got home I looked up the law in Mississippi and it states that women can breastfeed in public. Specifically, "A mother may breast-feed her child in any location, public or private, where the mother is otherwise authorized to be, without respect to whether the mother's breast or any part of it is covered during or incidental to the breast-feeding." So, I want to write a letter to Applebee's and let them know that the manager needs to be better informed of the law. You would think after all the publicity surrounding the nurse-ins of last year they would have educated the managers. Any suggestions on what to include in the letter?
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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.