Uproar over breastfeeding in public in /r/AskReddit that culminates in the ultimate litmus test of society: "how would other people feel if I pulled out a testicle and started massaging it?" (np.reddit.com)
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185 comments submitted at 14:44:14 on Jan 29, 2014 by stinatown
Nobody wants to watch you feed your baby, and just because you can do it in plain sight of others doesn't mean you should. Go to a bathroom or something.
What if, gasp, there is no bathroom? What if there is no hiding it? Why do you even care what the person's doing???
>What if, gasp, there is no bathroom? What if there is no hiding it?
Then you wait five minutes until you can get to one.
>Why do you even care what the person's doing???
Because the entire world has to see your stupid baby suck on your nasty tits??????
> Then you wait five minutes until you can get to one.
Screaming babies are totes patient.
Just shake it until it shuts up
Then why would you force someone to eat in a bathroom, what kind of asshat are you?
Don't look and you won't see them :3
Okay then don't look while I jerk off in front of you
lol jacking off isn't the same as feeding a kid, but keep thinking that
I never said it was it's not something you want to watch someone do in public and by your third grade logic you're not allowed to complain when you can just avoid looking at it
Never said I was complaining, never said you should stop, just stating that it's not the same <3
Oh sorry I assumed by stating the obvious you thought it was some kind of rebuttal
> Okay then don't look while I jerk off in front of you
Ahahaha. Only on reddit would a comparison like this be made in earnest. Sofaking sheltered.
yea reddit sux......... unlike tumblr............ ppl get me there................... womyn can do no wrong............. how dare you not want to see someone breastfeed......................
> wait five minutes
Says someone who has an incredibly unrealistic (or cruel) view of how to treat newborns and young babies.
You remind me of President Bush's Bioethics guy, Leon Kass
> "Worst of all from this point of view are those more uncivilized forms of eating, like licking an ice cream cone--a catlike activity that has been made acceptable in informal America but that still offends those who know eating in public is offensive. ... Eating on the street--even when undertaken, say, because one is between appointments and has no other time to eat--displays [a] lack of self-control: It beckons enslavement to the belly. ... Lacking utensils for cutting and lifting to mouth, he will often be seen using his teeth for tearing off chewable portions, just like any animal. ... This doglike feeding, if one must engage in it, ought to be kept from public view, where, even if we feel no shame, others are compelled to witness our shameful behavior."
Calling breastfeeding in public offensive is of a similar level as calling eating in public offensive, especially since we are far past the point where exposing an ankle is seen as offensive. You see a lot more breast in other contexts in public than during breastfeeding.
>Says someone who has an incredibly unrealistic (or cruel) view of how to treat newborns and young babies.
it's not unrealistic or cruel, just because a child screams doesn't mean the world stops it can wait until you get off the bus and you can find a bathroom and if you choose not to wait and flop your breasts out you don't get to go home and bitch about how everyone gave you a nasty look
>You remind me of President Bush's Bioethics guy, Leon Kass
Of course I do because you disagree with me and the Bush Administration was the epitome of Evil so therefore I must be a perfect fit for the Bush Administration
> Calling breastfeeding in public offensive is of a similar level as calling eating in public offensive
No it isn't also I never said it was offensive I said it was disgusting and you don't get to bitch about it when people give you dirty looks or ask you not to be a disgusting pig in front of others
The idea that the baby's hunger (especially with their lack of understanding of why they have to wait for food) is less important than some people finding babies eating gross is what seems crazy. You know well enough that it's natural and that babies want to eat. The baby doesn't understand the situation and that some people find it eating gross.
Why should the baby have to be physically uncomfortable and emotionally distraught because you are disgusted by the remedy? Why does the baby have the be the adult in the situation and hold off because of your delicate sensibilities?
I only mentioned Bush because that's what Kass is most well known for. It's an identifier, but what a response that identifier got!
The similarity is because, as you can see in the quoted text, you both want people to go hide to do normal things that you find gross.
Your butt seems to hurt, why is that?
he can't get tits like a baby can and he's jelly :c
Actually I just don't want to see a baby suck off his mother at dinner because she lacks the common courtesy not to be a disgusting pig and go somewhere private