whims-of-a-feminist:

sillygabbyx:

karnythia:

elfrankenstein:

todaylour:

robot-heart-politics:

amthatiare:

um consider me old school but i wouldnt be flipping my titty out in the middle of class either. very (dare i say) ghetto i mean REALLY????? i mean if the girl had any class about herself (or even effing privacy about her own body parts) she would have pumped like three bottles while doing homework last night, heated them up on the stove while getting ready for school that morning, and then either put them in a heat conserving bag or a gallon sized ziplock with a hot and cold pack in it. i mean there is a way to take care of your child and juggle priorities without being so unrefined (but i forgot along with chivalry i guess being polished, modest, and attempting the slightest of public etiquette died too huh?)

1) Most women can’t pump 3 full bottles in a night.

2) You shouldn’t heat up milk in the morning if you’re not planning to use it for several hours. Keeping it at room temperature isn’t recommended past 6 hours.

3) You shouldn’t store breastmilk in a ziplock.

4) In order for her to bring bottles of breastmilk with her for a full day, she’d have to have an extra insulated storage bag with cold packs, and then she’d have to be able to have access to hot water (either a sink that has very hot water, which most public restrooms don’t, or access to a kitchen where she could boil water) and stand there for several minutes letting it heat up before she feeds her baby. I don’t know about you, but when I was in college, I didn’t have the time or the resources to do any of this stuff in the course of a normal day.

This woman is doing exactly what she should: feeding her baby in a way that is safe and healthy—far safer and healthier than what you recommend. Not to mention how incredibly inconvenient it would be if she followed your instructions. This woman is obviously a student and a mother and who knows what other responsibilities she has. She is busy. Too busy to have to spend hours trying to pump enough to feed her child while she is at school all day, too busy to try to locate someplace where she can heat up her milk so her baby can eat, too busy to wait on the milk to heat up so her baby can get fed, too busy to sit around worrying about whether the safest, healthiest way for her to feed her baby is going to offend some immature grown-ass person who can’t handle the sight of a breast doing exactly what a breast was meant to do: feed a child.

Believe it or not, she is not doing this just to wave her boobs around and attract attention. She’s doing this to feed her child. If you think it’s more important that she keep her breasts hidden at all time so that you—an adult—can live in the comfort of knowing you will never be exposed to a breast against your will again (even though you could just turn your head if you don’t want to look), than it is that her baby is fed, healthy and happy, you have some seriously screwed up priorities.

Chivalry my fucking ass. This is just a grown adult who doesn’t have the maturity to deal with human biology throwing a temper tantrum over the fact that this woman isn’t placing their adult “needs” over the real needs of her infant.

thisthisthisthis

No she is not doing this for attention but she should do this somewhere more private, in my opinion. She could simply step out for a moment instead of breastfeeding her child in the middle of a classroom or in public in general. It’s about having respect for your body and having privacy in what should be a bonding moment for both the mother and child. 

She is somewhere private. It appears to be an empty classroom & in general public buildings like colleges don’t have a lot of private space. Feeding a baby isn’t a bonding moment. It’s feeding a baby. No one expects people who are not breastfeeding to hide while they eat or serve their kids milk in a bottle. Breast feeding isn’t shameful or anything to hide. Less focus on false notions of modesty & more on the rights of women and children to go about their lives in the way that best suits them would go a long way.

I am all for the support of women breastfeeding, but I mean she could at least cover herself up with a blanket or something.

A baby needs to eat when it needs too, but I mean she is in public and it wouldn’t hurt anyone for her to be a little modest and have a blanket covering her.

would you want to eat under a blanket, just because people deemed the way you eat is “gross”? breastfeeding is NOT dirty. no nipple is even showing. and what’s more, nobody - or hardly anyone - will tell a man to cover up. male and female breasts function the same way; the difference (usually) is the amount of tissue.

Here’s a little tip, if you don’t want to see someone breastfeed their child, don’t look at it.