Women to Facebook: Stop banning our breast-feeding pics

Your original intent is clear enough though, so it doesn't matter. While posting in places like these where sentences can be taken apart, one develops a new respect for television personalities and politicians who have to think of how every sentence can be interpreted.

You cannot seriously expect that all breastfeeding mothers will be hidden away for 30m to an hour every 2 hours simply because somebody might see a booby.

Why should someone have consideration for other people when doing something that no reasonable person should find offensive?

Some people find it offensive that you (or perhaps your sister, wife, mother) leave the house with their head uncovered (unless of course that is what they happen to do). Should all of western society cater to this, because some people feel they should?

As for insisting on performing other bodily functions it is because a) for those things it is a legitimate public health issue and b) babies are not controlled like an adults bowels. For that matter neither are babies bowels and it's perfectly normal to change your baby say in a public park (though one would hope you don't regularly post that to facebook).

Honestly this whole thing is overblown, and as unimportant as topless sunbathing, or nudity on television. In fact I'd go so far as to suggest this sounds like a bit of an American problem.

But as far as my opinion on the subject of breastfeeding goes, I'll just say this. As a man, the only opinion I or any other man really needs to have about this is that we don't need to have an opinion about it. Move along, nothing to see here.

As for the mothers in question...the sensibilities of strangers is such an inconsequential concern compared to the well-being of one's child that you might as well ask why she thinks it's okay to drink a glass of water without any consideration for the fate of the millions of living organisms within. When our baby cries, my wife goes into some kind of panic-driven berserker state until he's mollified. I barely matter to her at that point.

So that's the why. As to the where...you can't simply go into house arrest when you have a baby that you have to feed every 2-3 hours. In my opinion, a lot of people eat far more obscenely than any combination of baby+breast, but open-mouth chewers are allowed to perform their horrible bodily functions in full view of the innocent public even though they could be considerate and eat in the privacy of their homes. Imagine you're a mother (assuming you aren't). Why should you be treated like a second class citizen when you're literally creating the next generation of people from the substance of your own body? No mother I know feels that what she's doing is obscene or anything less than wonderful, and I personally doubt the mental health of anybody who does.

Sometimes it really does seem like the alleged cabal of male chauvinists presumed in feminist literature is setting the unconscious standards for our culture. "I can't fap to this - there's a baby on it! That's obscene!"