The Public Boob

Double the Fun

A bill just passed in Washington state protecting mothers, breastfeeding in public, from discrimination charges. It seems odd that women should have to be protected from doing the most fundamentally instinctive act of survival, feeding their child. Some people want moms to hide in bathroom stalls as if you would want to eat your lunch in the bathroom. I imagine that the desire to avoid seeing a woman breastfeed is a leftover from Puritan pilgrims, but we live in a society where girls wear hoochie shorts and belly tops, where half naked women are all over the covers of magazines, and I won’t even mention what you can find on the Internet. My solution is for all people who are bothered by seeing a woman breastfeed to do the opposite; get an eyeful of breastfeeding women, look at photos, watch them on buses, seek them out and dive right in (not literally). This is the only way that you’ll get over it. Read more »