breastfeeding at hate-fil-a

[arely staircase]

Aiming to educate diners about a woman’s right to breastfeed in public, a group of about 20 women staged a "nurse-in" Wednesday at a Chick-fil-A in Knoxville, Tennessee. That’s where, earlier in the week, an employee had asked a mother nursing her 5-month-old daughter to stop.

"Just as I was finishing up, an employee came up and told me other parents were afraid of letting their children play while I was feeding her, especially without a cover," mom Jennifer Day told ABC News 6 in Knoxville. So she rallied other lactating pals, who decided the protest would be an effective way of letting folks know that the state law — which allows women to breastfeed anywhere, public or private, where they are "otherwise authorized to be present" — is on the mom’s side.

http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/chick-fil-a-nurse-in-stands-up-for-public-breastfeeding-171256622.html

[HockeyMom]

1. I nursed my daughter in 1984

and went everywhere with her. I never had a problem back then and I was able to take and go with her so many places I couldn't with her older bottle fed sister.

Disgraceful that we are going backwards in time.

[arely staircase]

2. I used to live in mexico

impossible to go a day without seeing public nursing.

[Lunacee_2013]

5. I've always had the impression

that breast feeding was way more acceptable in Mexico, Central and South America then here in the U.S.

[arely staircase]

20. Europe too

at least the southern part. bare breasts aren't that big of a deal.

[Nye Bevan]

13. In the US, people are so, so weird about breasts.

In Europe too mothers nurse everywhere and nobody cares.

[arely staircase]

17. I can remember watching soap commercials in Spain in the 80s

they were just like American soap commercials (attractive woman in the shower invigorated by whatever brand of soap) but with titties. Don't even get me started on my first trip to a Spanish beach.

[arcane1]

3. It amazes me that it's ok to do this with a baby, but somehow tragic to be seen by a 5-year-old

Cognitive dissonance at its best!

[arely staircase]

4. some sort of leftover victorian prudery I guess

I assume 99.999 percent of human existence involved everyone in the family and village seeing it.

[Le Taz Hot]

9. Wouldn't it be a teachable moment?

"Mommy, what is that lady doing?" "She's feeding her baby, dear. That's what those things on a woman's chest are for." Now was that hard?

[arcane1]

23. Heck, even with no memory of doing it myself, I knew what it was at age 4 or 5

And the first time I witnessed breast-feeding as a non-infant was in 2013!

[Sheldon Cooper]

6. Other mothers were afraid to let their kids play while the woman was nursing?

That makes zero sense no matter how you try to explain it.

[HangOnKids]

7. Oh it is easy to explain Sheldon

Bad Mothers.

[Sheldon Cooper]

8. Did they think she'd accidentally squirt breast milk on their kids or something?

They were worried about their kids playing without her being covered - I honestly don't know how to interpret that. Just calling them bad mothers doesn't seem to cover it, although I don't disagree with the characterization.

[HangOnKids]

10. I Suspect These Moms Just Have A Big Hang Up On Boobs

Only in the bedroom, in the dark, under the covers. I don't have a problem with women who bottle feed, but breasts are on a woman's body for a reason...wait for it......to feed children. I am not a breast feeding is for everyone woman, lots of women can't do it or do not want to for may reasons, but women who get shitty about a breast feeding mom are just bad mothers.

[thucythucy]

12. Never been to a Chic-A-Whatzis

so I have to ask: are children generally allowed "to play" in a restaurant where people are eating?

If so, I'd be more worried about a kid upending a plate of food or banging into a table, than being traumatized by the sight of a nursing mother and child.

[arely staircase]

19. they are actually one of the few fast food places with edible food

since they declared LGBTs to be subhuman I don't darken their doorsteps.

[bluestate10]

21. Wendy's has a good menu if people get off their high horses and choose to look through

that menu.

[arely staircase]

22. very good salads at Wendy's nt

[arely staircase]

18. I know, right? Afraid of what?

a baby? breasts?

[MineralMan]

11. What does she think she is? A mammal?

The very idea! Are we animals that feed or young with our own milk? Shocking. If God had meant for women to feed babies that way, He would gave given them nipples, for pete's sake...

[HangOnKids]

14. I don't agree with you very often but that was perfect!

Well except for the ffed.

[MineralMan]

15. Fixed. Thanks.

[HangOnKids]

16. You are very welcome!

Good post BTW.