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Barbara Walters Embarrassed By Breast Feeding?
by Dave
6/16/2005 08:33:00 PM
Here are some exercises for you. Duct tape your mouth, place a blanket over your head, and now sit there just breathing for a while. Fun, isn't it? Now place a hot water bottle filled with 9 pounds worth of hot water on your chest, put a blanket over it and sit for 20 minutes. Very comfortable, wouldn't you say? Finally take an infant of say two to six months and deprive it of food for two hours while you are holding it. Now that's some real fun.
Barbara Walters boarded a plane and sat near a woman who was breast feeding. She complained on her show about how uncomfortable this made her. Bill O'Reilly took Walters' side because he feels there is some level of public decorum which should be adhered to.
If you can't guess it, I disagree. In fact, I disagree rather emphatically. I have lived to over forty years and I have to say that the sight of a woman's breast does not offend me. Janet Jackson showed her breast on a TV show in prime time and I had to explain to my young kids that she did that because she wanted to be "sexy" - she wanted to make men become aroused and want her in a sexual way. The breast feeding woman, on the other hand, was doing what she did in order to feed her kid.
O'Reilly smugly says he isn't against breast feeding - he just wants all such women to carry around shawls and cover their breasts when they feed. All I have to say to Bill is go ahead and try the exercises listed above. As far as public decorum goes, I want to remind Bill that it is OK for women to wear lipstick whose primary function is to simulate the blood flowing to a woman's lips during sexual arousal. It is also OK for women to wear scents created with substances taken from animals' anal glands in order to supplement the natural smells emitted when a woman is ovulating. It is also OK for women to get "breast jobs" whose purpose is essentially to make a woman look as if she is just coming into child bearing age so as to attract men sexually. These things are OK and do not offend ordinary public decorum but a woman feeding her baby does?
To the rest of you, I suggest that a woman's breast was made by god for one purpose, to feed babies. You have to be just about brain dead to not realize that the reason a man gets aroused by the site of one has more to do with biological impulses than anything else. Just as a woman is attracted to a man because of some attributes which indicate he would be "a good provider," a man is attracted to certain physical characteristics which indicate that a woman would be a good mother. Deny this and deny reality. If you can't control the impulses which make an 18 year old man aroused, maybe you should GROW UP.
Breast feeding is undeniably the best way to raise a healthy child. If a mother breast feeds, she must do so often. And it isn't always possible to do so in a manner so as to not offend the prudes such as Walters or O'Reilly. I suggest that the trade-off for Walters' desire to not be offended by a feeding mother is to either endure the lovely sound of a hysterically crying baby for hours or to keep all women with small children tucked away in the home. I suppose this is what Barbara Walters would like. She wants mothers of infants hidden away and not out in public where they might offend her!
Barbara Walters boarded a plane and sat near a woman who was breast feeding. She complained on her show about how uncomfortable this made her. Bill O'Reilly took Walters' side because he feels there is some level of public decorum which should be adhered to.
If you can't guess it, I disagree. In fact, I disagree rather emphatically. I have lived to over forty years and I have to say that the sight of a woman's breast does not offend me. Janet Jackson showed her breast on a TV show in prime time and I had to explain to my young kids that she did that because she wanted to be "sexy" - she wanted to make men become aroused and want her in a sexual way. The breast feeding woman, on the other hand, was doing what she did in order to feed her kid.
O'Reilly smugly says he isn't against breast feeding - he just wants all such women to carry around shawls and cover their breasts when they feed. All I have to say to Bill is go ahead and try the exercises listed above. As far as public decorum goes, I want to remind Bill that it is OK for women to wear lipstick whose primary function is to simulate the blood flowing to a woman's lips during sexual arousal. It is also OK for women to wear scents created with substances taken from animals' anal glands in order to supplement the natural smells emitted when a woman is ovulating. It is also OK for women to get "breast jobs" whose purpose is essentially to make a woman look as if she is just coming into child bearing age so as to attract men sexually. These things are OK and do not offend ordinary public decorum but a woman feeding her baby does?
To the rest of you, I suggest that a woman's breast was made by god for one purpose, to feed babies. You have to be just about brain dead to not realize that the reason a man gets aroused by the site of one has more to do with biological impulses than anything else. Just as a woman is attracted to a man because of some attributes which indicate he would be "a good provider," a man is attracted to certain physical characteristics which indicate that a woman would be a good mother. Deny this and deny reality. If you can't control the impulses which make an 18 year old man aroused, maybe you should GROW UP.
Breast feeding is undeniably the best way to raise a healthy child. If a mother breast feeds, she must do so often. And it isn't always possible to do so in a manner so as to not offend the prudes such as Walters or O'Reilly. I suggest that the trade-off for Walters' desire to not be offended by a feeding mother is to either endure the lovely sound of a hysterically crying baby for hours or to keep all women with small children tucked away in the home. I suppose this is what Barbara Walters would like. She wants mothers of infants hidden away and not out in public where they might offend her!
3 Comments:
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I think they need to get over it. Guess what there are many things people do that make others uncomfortable. Perhaps we should all modify our behaviours so other people will feel 'comfortable'.
A great post I wrote about your Breastfeeding entry on my blog. ;-)By
Vegan Momma, at 9:54 PM, June 17, 2005
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I totally agree with Walters and O'Reilly. Woman need to breast feed in private. Breast feeding their children doesn't need to be a public display, not everybody cares to see your breasts and could care less about feeding your kids. Most would prefer if women did stay home with young children.
As far as your lecture regarding 18 year old men and getting sexually aroused by breasts....what does this have to do with anything? The complaint was with women breast feeding in public, try to focus on the subject.By
, at 7:11 PM, June 28, 2005
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Dear Mr. or Ms. "anonymous",
Do you honestly think that all mothers of young children should stay home all the time? Do you not think that these mothers need to eat? When and how would you have all of them do their grocery shopping? And what about their older children? Would you have them starve? Do you think that these children and their mothers should be deprived of seeing their aunts, uncles, and grandparents who live somewhere other than their home? Should they never be allowed to play at the park? Can you tell me that you honestly think this way?
And why does what you care about matter anyway? I suggest you take up some light reading about our state and national laws on this subject. You may want to start with this site: http://maloney.house.gov/documents/olddocs/breastfeeding/050505CRSReport.pdf. The information here is three years old. The current laws that protect mothers' right to nurse, and give women the power to bring legal action against those who deny her this right are found in even more states.
Your intelligence level must be rather low. Maybe you should take an IQ test, or get some educational help at a nearby community college. Why else would it be that you cannot see the connection between the story about sexual exposure and the complaints of women breastfeeding. But, alas, I will spell it out for you again. Breastfeeding is not something to be embrassed about when you explain it to your kids, when you see it in public, or any time. Women who show their breasts in a sexual manner at inappropriate times and in public places is something to be embarassed about.
As Leslie Morgan Steiner said in the Washington Post, "A breast-feeding mom simply cannot get on a plane or a train, go to work, watch her older children at the local park or run errands without stopping to feed her baby or pump. Nursing a baby is a normal, healthy part of motherhood. It needs to take place in public places sometimes. Note to Barbara Walters, Delta Air Lines, etc: Get over it! Look away if you must, but give breast-feeding moms a break."
Breastfeeding is a normal part of life. Just as normal as the fact that some women are going to show their breasts when they should not, in places and ways that are illegal.
If you are truly so callus that you do not care that billions of babies will starve if their mothers do not feed them, and so selfish to think that all mothers who choose to nurse should never leave their homes, then you have some real soul searching to do. This world does not agree with you. You are not in the majority. The majority of people want to do all they can to keep children all over the world from dying of starvation. The majority of people want to do all they can to empower others to help feed and care for children. This means that we have chosen to allow mothers to breastfeed in public places. And you are just going to have to get over your selfish opinions.By
, at 3:51 PM, January 29, 2008
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