:wtf Model Moo Bfing on magazine cover

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yurble
I honestly don't really care if I see a woman's breasts, provided that society is equally accepting of them when there's no breast attached. If I don't want to look at them, I can avert my eyes, just as with any other person I don't want to see. In general, I'd like less body policing.

But I'm really disgusted by the bodily fluids splattering. It's well-known that breast milk can carry disease, and people are often told that they shouldn't buy breast milk off the internet because so much of it tests positive for infectious agents. It's a public health issue.

I think the problem is that people express their disgust as "I don't want to see that" when they should say "I don't want to be exposed to that" (where that is disease). That puts it back on logical rather than emotional grounds.

Either way, it's clear that what's going on today is not how it was in the past but a whole bunch of attention whoring.

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Peace
They're just a bunch of attention whores who want society's focus on them because they squat out a loaf. Society tells them they're pedestal worthy because they're mothers. It's just another form of patriarchy, of chauvinism. Control the women by controlling their bodies, by extolling birth as if it were something exceptional. Make them feel important for doing absolutely nothing.

Only ignorant women fall for that.

Fuck that shit.

Notice that higher levels of female education equals less children, or no children.

Rant over.

I just wanted to say that this is my favourite post I've seen here so far :yr

I'll never understand those antifeminist women, FeMRAs etc who think feminists should just quit whining and get on with their roles of popping out babies and making sammiches for men- can't they see it's all a trap? Have they all forgotten the concept of keeping women "barefoot and pregnant" and what that entails for a woman, or do they just have a kind of Stockholm Syndrome for their sexist oppressors?

Antifeminist men don't like the idea of women getting educated and having satisfying careers, the freedom to travel, financial independence etc because they know that this will help them to discover and pursue their own interests, see that their own lives are valuable and that they don't have to be about serving men by being good little uncomplaining Stepford Wives and incubators- and this thought terrifies them.

I'm so glad I'm with a CF man who treats me as an equal and someone to enjoy life and have adventures with rather than a sexist man who thinks I should sacrifice my own happiness to spend my days looking after him as if he's an overgrown child. I met him just as I was thinking I'd never find a nice CF man at my age- and with plenty of sexist dinosaurs still roaming the earth I can't tell you how lucky I feel.

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yurble
I honestly don't really care if I see a woman's breasts, provided that society is equally accepting of them when there's no breast attached. If I don't want to look at them, I can avert my eyes, just as with any other person I don't want to see. In general, I'd like less body policing.

But I'm really disgusted by the bodily fluids splattering. It's well-known that breast milk can carry disease, and people are often told that they shouldn't buy breast milk off the internet because so much of it tests positive for infectious agents. It's a public health issue.

I think the problem is that people express their disgust as "I don't want to see that" when they should say "I don't want to be exposed to that" (where that is disease). That puts it back on logical rather than emotional grounds.

Either way, it's clear that what's going on today is not how it was in the past but a whole bunch of attention whoring.

What is your take on the rights of businesses to dictate policy on their own private property?

In the U.S., restaurants generally have a "no shirt, no shoes, no service" policy. This should be universal, male or female, breastfeeding irrelevant.

Don't like it? Eat in your own home topless, then.

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LoveToLurk
#normalizebreastfeeding ?

Give me a break. Breastfeeding already is normal. Everybody knows it exists. Mothers of infants have been doing it since the beginning of time, they just haven't needed a marching band and a 21 gun salute announcing their presence. These women don't want to normalize it, they want to make it into a theatrical show complete with their own personal cheerleading section.