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aravain -> RE: Breastfeeding, taboo or not (6/17/2009 8:58:37 AM)
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ORIGINAL: WyldHrt
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*shrug* Go ahead and nurse in public. In a restaurant I would ask my waiter to speak to a manager. *shrug*
And unless there is a tit visible, the manager is supposed to do.... what, exactly?
Ask her to take it into privacy, or be willing to comp me what bit of my meal I've eaten, as I won't be eating the rest or paying unless she moves it elsewhere.
Managers (and stores in general) have the right to refuse service for less infractions than something like public nursing in their (privately owned and operated, and hence private property) restaurant. Any manager worth his/her salt would ask the nursing woman to take it elsewhere after my request. If the answer was a blatant no, then he'd have to decide who to 'deny' service to. That simple.
I've *seen* it happen. I've been the person asked to *get* the manager who had to MAKE it happen (and, in my case, did so very well).
There's a difference between nursing in public and not expecting a problem, and nursing in public *belligerently* when asked to do so elsewhere.
There was a *different* manager (same restaurant, different woman) who had to deal with the latter and he (rightfully) ejected the woman, who hadn't even ordered yet beyond drinks, comping those, since the gentleman who talked to the manager was already eating. He didn't handle it so well (and the woman later received a gift certificate; not for being ejected, but because she had been yelled at by the manager).
If you're going to nurse in public, that's fine as long as you're willing to *move* to private if someone (yes, like me) has an issue with it (or if it's included in a terms of service for wherever you're at). I shouldn't need to explain why I have an issue with it; I have one, and as a fellow customer it's up to the managers/owners to mediate that, otherwise they're like to lose one (or more) customers in the future. Simplicities of business.
Like I said before... my mother didn't always have a restroom available... she'd find a discreet corner, and stand facing it while I nursed. I don't understand why even *that* would be such an issue. Why couldn't/can't you nurse standing, I've never known it to be a problem for anyone (though admittedly the only people I've talked to about this were my mother, a big burly woman, and a few of her friends who are quite similar) anymore than sitting.
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