Confusing breast feeding with an indecent act...
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OK something is totally out of whack when you need to pass laws and amend laws to protect breast feeding. Anyone that confuses breast feeding with some kind of indecent act has seriously got a few lose marbles. Now I don't know whether it was growing up in Europe or the fact that I witnessed both my Mum and Sister breastfeed (and believe me I see nothing sexual about those two), but even whilst working at Lotus UK, I have seen women come back to work pop out a tit and feed their babies, it's really no big deal. Next we'll need a law to say that we can't blow our noses in public, as blowing could be misconstrued by someone else as meaning something else, plus we all know the rumours about women and sneezing, so we better make plans to stop sneezing...
This summer I read a story about some Russians who were being prosecuted for changing under a towel on the beach, no one saw anything, but everyone could imagine that there was nothing between their privates and themselves but a towel...Hmm, how is this different to a pair of swimming trunks? Although banning speedos could make a great deal of sense. I'd hate to think how many times our family would have been in jail by now for getting changed under a towel. crazy, crazy, crazy.
OK something is totally out of whack when you need to pass laws and amend laws to protect breast feeding. Anyone that confuses breast feeding with some kind of indecent act has seriously got a few lose marbles. Now I don't know whether it was growing up in Europe or the fact that I witnessed both my Mum and Sister breastfeed (and believe me I see nothing sexual about those two), but even whilst working at Lotus UK, I have seen women come back to work pop out a tit and feed their babies, it's really no big deal. Next we'll need a law to say that we can't blow our noses in public, as blowing could be misconstrued by someone else as meaning something else, plus we all know the rumours about women and sneezing, so we better make plans to stop sneezing...
This summer I read a story about some Russians who were being prosecuted for changing under a towel on the beach, no one saw anything, but everyone could imagine that there was nothing between their privates and themselves but a towel...Hmm, how is this different to a pair of swimming trunks? Although banning speedos could make a great deal of sense. I'd hate to think how many times our family would have been in jail by now for getting changed under a towel. crazy, crazy, crazy.
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As for the folks changing under the towel incident of last Summer, I'm going to draw on my experience as a life-long Eastern-Mass. resident and say that was *definitely* more xenophobic than prudish. I'm guessing those folks did not want Russian immigrants on "their" beach, and so were looking for any excuse to complain. Blah.
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