VA: I Like Women Who Breastfeed, But I Hate Lactivists
Jul 5th, 2007
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For the official record, I have no problem watching a woman breastfeed her child. In fact, I sort of enjoy it. For one thing, the hungry baby is usually mercifully […]
Original post: I Like Women Who Breastfeed, But I Hate Lactivists
My exact thoughts. Exact. Even if I am a girl, I do like boobs, too. I also think breastfeeding is such a natural and very good thing. I will never be the one complaining or getting all offended if someone breastfeeds in public.
However.
Being almost militant about breastfeeding and trying to force people who are not OK with it to be OK with it when our society has got everyone conditioned to freak out (good, bad, other) at the mere thought of a naked breast in public (which shouldn’t be all that naked if you are doing it correctly anyway) does nothing to help the cause of these mommies and is mostly a waste of effort. People who are offended will still be offended, and it’s really not that difficult in certain situations to tuck away somewhere discreetly to breastfeed unless you are actually *wanting* to create controversy for the sake of controversy instead of just wanting to feed your baby. If V’s house gets too crowded, come on over to mine.
Um, I didn’t get it that V thinks of her site as more of a “website” and less of a “blog.” I’m not offended or going to protest in public or during dinner or in front of the kids or anything, just kind of curious.
“silly ninnies”. ‘Nuff said.
Ah I agree, I breastfed both my kids in public occasionally. But I was always careful to cover the milk jugs so I wouldn’t offend anybody. I still got nasty looks though that was the only part that got to me. It’s a boob if you like it look if not look away.
I’m going to skip right over the point about the lactivist (too easy, VA!) and address what she said about the word f*ck.
I don’t mind the word f*ck, but VA uses it so much it loses whatever point there is in uttering it.
I don’t get the blog thing either. It’s a word to describe what she’s doing…does she object to the word, or to the fact then when it’s used to describe what she’s doing she feels lumped in with the people she likes to bash?
She doesn’t seem too inspired lately - maybe she’s digging a little too deep.
I’m a new mom who breastfeeds, and I totally agree with you except for the bathroom point. I have no problem nursing in a bathroom, but very few offer any seating besides the floor or the toilet, neither of which are very appealing. What the lactivists need to do is crusade for chairs in public restrooms. I feel bad for the babies who get stuck at those nurse-ins. I mean, really, a kid can only eat for so long….
You folks are TOTALLY missing the point.
V LIKES BOOBS! I love chicks who love boobs. I wonder what her position on pussy is?
I’ve always covered up with a blanket when I nurse in public (not for you, but for me) but I’ll be damned if I’m going to sit on a toilet to feed my child while someone sits next to me and takes a dump. Fuck that.
I remember an earlier article about her add space where she talked about being intrigued about lesbians having a crush on her, and now there’s her fascination with boobs. I think V should just start looking for a girlfriend.
V is either a flaming lesbian or a pathetic dude who is probably so ugly, the closest he can get to real boobs is by looking at breastfeeding mothers.
As long as human beings come equipped with necks and eyelids, *looking at* anything has nothing to do with “comfort zones.” If you don’t like to look at boobs — nursing ones or silicone ones or little ones or old ones — then shut your silly eyes, or turn away (or turn off the TV).
(And choosing not to nurse a child in a public bathroom has nothing to do with the poor little thing’s emotional well-being; it’s just fucking filthy in some of those places. Would you eat a meal in your average gas station bathroom? No? Then why should a baby?)
As for Fasta and Mooshu: Boobs are pretty, end of story. They’re round, they’re soft, they’re bouncy. There’s a reason why artists from the dawn of time have liked to paint them, including gay artists. They’re just nice to look at. Lusting after them is nice too, but plenty of people who don’t lust after them like to look at them. Me, I do both — but it’s perfectly plausible that Verruca might like to look at them without wanting to do anything else with them.
Thank you for typing that so I didn’t have to. ;)
I have no problem with breastfeeding, as long as it is covered and I don’t hear any slurping. Isn’t that one of the functions of a receiving blanket?
It’s silly to complain about bare tits being offensive in public when fat, ugly bitches are allowed to roam freely, publicly flopping their lard, inflicting their noisome visages on anyone unfortunate to glance their way. Oh, and pimple-faced bucktooth scrawny teenagers, and people with strange growths, and cripples, and those disgusting women who kept a nice dark tan when they were twenty and now look like they’ve been used to wipe somebody’s ass, and anyone with bed hair, and those pasty-faced geeks who blink at you from behind thick glasses.
People with glasses are offensive. They should definitely have to eat in the crapper. Or wear bags over their icky heads.
We started losing the war against Public Display of Things People Don’t Want to See when we let those black folks go out in public. We should have known that was just the camel’s nose in the tent - now we have to share oxygen with every scourge of public decency that likes to flash their emo glasses or flaunt their crutches. Send them all to the bathroom.
I’m slightly miffed by the lesbian undertones in this post. I mean, I JUST read the thing about the slightly lesbo-erotic adverts getting them most hits… STOP GETTING ME EXCITED ALREADY.