Clearly the way to protest is for all breastfeeding to be done with bells AND whistles on one's boobies! Heh. The image is quite entertaining.

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I cannot help but think that Pearl would find bells and whistles distracting. She is too inquisitive for such things.

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true

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You forget your place, woman! You're body, in particular your chest area - unlike that of a man, is disgusting and should be covered at all times! Obscene! How dare you even go out in public! You should in that kitchen, pregnant again, making a tidy home for your husband! If you're out in public, showing your breasts (which exist for no other reason than to titillate men), then you are not performing your proper womanly duties!

(I'm of a mind that in an equal society, women should be allowed to be as naked as men.)

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I know - people go mad with desire at the sight of my breasts. Yet they are also repulsive and terrifyingly covered with girl germs.

Also, I am an It.

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Damn, I wish I were breast feeding right now. We could waltz into parliament and have a lovely long exposure of bosoms while feeding in front of him.

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I seriously want to go eat at the Hyatt in order to feed there. That's where she was kicked out of. Pardon my dangling participle. It's dangling with *rage*.

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As soon as lactogenesis II kicks in, we become nothing more than an Animal Planet documentary.

A dirty, slutty, immodest Animal Planet documentary.

Edited at 2009-04-16 01:13 pm (UTC)

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You and me baby, we're nothing but mammals, so let's do it like they do on the Discovery channel.

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Discreet!! Discreet!!
The thing I noticed about this stupid word is how it is applied to menstruation as well. Tampon packaging and sanitary napkin packaging is frequently advertised as being 'discreet'. Because, the horror of someone seeing a packet of tampons in your bag! And of course we are supposed to be 'discreet' about going off to the toilet carrying a tampon or pad, too.
Women have to be very 'discreet' about any female body fluid - I don't see anything anywhere about men having to be 'discreet' about ejaculate, for example.

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Women have to be very 'discreet' about any female body fluid - I don't see anything anywhere about men having to be 'discreet' about ejaculate, for example.

At least female fluids seep rather than spurting. TMI?

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LOL, I dunno.

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Yes, I'm pretty angry about that too.

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I know! Basic logic: if people are thrown out of restaraunts for feeding their children, then....?

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First of all, I am not an It. 'Its baby' indeed.

Yes, the gender-neutral pronoun is PC overkill if you're talking about breastfeeding mothers.

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Yes, the gender-neutral pronoun is PC overkill if you're talking about breastfeeding mothers.

Seriously, what planet does he live on?

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Well, we all know how you people like to just wave them things about in public.

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I'd detach them and wave them over my head if I could. Barnett knows me so well.

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I am incredibly frustrated that things like this are still happening - when eldest was quite small, a woman got thrown off a bus for breastfeeding, so I blatantly breastfed on most bus trips from then on (assuming ze was awake and hungry). And I can remember being very very angry about it.

But then, this would be the chair-sniffing trilobite*, wouldn't it?

* yes, I'm aware that the usual word would be troglodyte, but it didn't have quite the level of primitivism that I was looking for

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and I just realised, I've combined 'barnett' and 'buswell' into one very unappetising package.

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