But milk men never whip it out in public…

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A woman’s right to breastfeed in public was bolstered yesterday when more than 100 mothers and their babes held a feed-in at a downtown clothing store.

(2008, August 22). 24 hours, p. 3.

My daily newspaper published, the other day, a story about a woman and secreting nipples. This woman, it would seem, was asked by a clerk of a certain H&M store to respectfully feed her child in a change room, or something of the like. Being the year that it is, a certain 2008, and being her a woman, she seemed convinced that she was allowed to do whatever she wanted. It was sexist, of course, to limit public nipple secretion and consumption.

As was quoted above, there gathered ~100 pairs of bare breast, both young and old, being suckled in public. This gather was, in fashion of anything these days, organized by Facebook. I find it ironic that the breasts women, shown off so adamantly in the summer and in their low-cut shirts, are begging for public sucking on one side, but then yell at men for looking.

Their excuse was written to be for the sake of ‘parenting’. This was the argument I received the blunt end in LAX when I approached some mother for changing her child’s diaper in the middle of a hallway. I sat down the hallway buried inside a book when I noticed the stank, and even still, my request was labeled as ’sexist’.

“Women have the right not to be sequestered away when they’re parenting,” said Sonia Strobel.

This is not so much an argument that mothers have not a right to expose wrinkly and stretch-marked boobs in public, it’s that a shopper has the right to not have to watch them do it.

Needless to say, the women won and H&M apologized. Why, do you ask? With such an excellent retort as written by me? Because men control everything, and because old boobs make men uncomfortable. But mostly, because everything counts as sexist.

Tags: parenting