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ORIGINAL: GreedyTop

aww, c'mon.. you woulda known me as the tart that I am!! *grin*

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ORIGINAL: DarqueMirror

It is a symptom of their entitlement, yes. Are you honestly trying to tell me that women who squat out kid after kid so they can get more welfare don't exist? Are you honestly trying to tell me that mom's who take their screaming spawn to movie theaters for R-rated movies don't exist? Are you honestly trying to tell me the kids I see throwing tantrums in restaurants with uncaring parents don't exist? Are you honestly trying to tell me the news stories featuring an irate mother, furious over her child being disciplined in school when it wasn't being done at home don't exist?

Bullshit. It's all a symptom of the same problem.

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ORIGINAL: LaTigresse

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ORIGINAL: DarqueMirror

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ORIGINAL: kalikshama
Sounds like someone failed to bond with mom.

Right on schedule. You are so predictable it's pathetic. Come on what's next? Calling me a misogynist? Go on, you know you want to. It's the very next thing in your playbook. Let's have it.

And here I thought Awareness was above having a sock puppet...

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Well, what the action/decision conveys is basically "ok, screw whatever you guys are doing over there, it's not important enough for me to even pretend to be interested in... I'm going to sit in this corner and do something that's only convenient to me, even though it might cause a disturbance"

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ORIGINAL: SixMore2Go

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By deciding on your own to breastfeed while the Judge is in session you are disrespecting the Judge, the Court system, the Law, and all that it represents.

How exactly is that? In just what way does it disrespect any of those things? Plenty of people have said so, yet none have explained just how it does.

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ORIGINAL: Arpig

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Well, what the action/decision conveys is basically "ok, screw whatever you guys are doing over there, it's not important enough for me to even pretend to be interested in... I'm going to sit in this corner and do something that's only convenient to me, even though it might cause a disturbance"

Actually no. What it conveys is "Oh-oh, the kid is hungry, I had better take care of that quickly and quietly with the minimum of fuss and bother so he won't bother or disturb anybody."

Rather than disrespect, in this particular case it shows just the opposite, it shows respect. Care to try again?

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ORIGINAL: agirl

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ORIGINAL: DarqueMirror

It is a symptom of their entitlement, yes. Are you honestly trying to tell me that women who squat out kid after kid so they can get more welfare don't exist? Are you honestly trying to tell me that mom's who take their screaming spawn to movie theaters for R-rated movies don't exist? Are you honestly trying to tell me the kids I see throwing tantrums in restaurants with uncaring parents don't exist? Are you honestly trying to tell me the news stories featuring an irate mother, furious over her child being disciplined in school when it wasn't being done at home don't exist?

Bullshit. It's all a symptom of the same problem.

I'm afraid that just because there is lots of sloppy parenting going on all around the place doesn't mean that, on the SINGLE issue of *breastfeeding when out with an infant*, they go hand in hand.

I most certainly do NOT think my children are the be all and end of of the universe. I was certainly entitled to take my children to all sorts of places but if they mis-behaved in the remotest they were removed. By the age of 3yrs I could take my children anywhere.

I didn't breastfeed whilst out and about through any sense of entitlement, it was purely practical (and normal, as I've said before). This is how infants are fed. If I could find a nice quiet spot I would, as I preferred the peace and solitude.

As I said before, if I could leave my infant at home while I did necessary tasks, that's exactly what I did. If that wasn't possible (which it wasn't, always) they came with me.

Your rants are extremely one-tracked and one sided, and you seem to link ALL breastfeeding mothers into one *baby-squatting, welfare-scrounging, sloppy-parenting* group. It's not the case.

This is one issue, that stands alone, and you don't seem to be able to seperate it.

Did you survey the parents of these ill-behaved children and find out how many of them breastfed? Did you ever notice families with nicely-behaved, thoughtful and well-mannered children and ask if the mother breastfed whilst she was out and about? You've been making huge assumptions otherwise.

I think you have an unfortunate and ill-educated attitude but there are lots of people that are bigotted and the older you get the easier it is to tolerate.

Do you have any children?

agirl

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ORIGINAL: urtoy

As someone who has spent time in the courtroom (both as attorney and as litigant) and a mother of four who chose to breastfeed, it's my opinion that children (and babies especially) do not belong in the courtroom. They're disruptive by nature. When I was nursing, if I was called upon to be where my child would be a nuisance (courtroom, theater, library, church, adults-only function) I would arrange for someone to care for my child while I was gone. Missing one feeding does not compromise the breastfeeding process or the child's welfare. And while, like many posters, I see nothing inherently objectionable about breastfeeding, the judge in question did (obviously) and he gets to call the shots in his courtroom.

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Is anyone here still in college? I can tell you what my professors would have said had I dared even bring a child/baby into their classroom, let alone breastfed in the middle of a lecture. Is a courtroom not entitled to at least as much respect as a classroom?

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ORIGINAL: xxblushesxx

Where in her post did you see disdain, derision or disgust? This is someone who has spent a lot of time in the courtroom, and has also been a breastfeeding mother. Do you not think she has thought this through and come to a reasonable conclusion?

As she said though, the judge is in charge of his/her courtroom and he made his decision.

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ORIGINAL: xxblushesxx

Where in her post did you see disdain, derision or disgust? This is someone who has spent a lot of time in the courtroom, and has also been a breastfeeding mother. Do you not think she has thought this through and come to a reasonable conclusion?

As she said though, the judge is in charge of his/her courtroom and he made his decision.

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The second best situation is to at least be able to do it without distain, derision and disgust.

agirl

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ORIGINAL: SaMaitresse


I too echo the request for anybody to explain how it is a sign of disrespect. It is disrespectful of those who would object. It is a woman's right, and duty, to care for her child and breastfeeding is the best method of doing so. There is no assault to the dignity of anybody in breastfeeding one's child anywhere. In the absence of any such disrespect or harm to dignity, one must assume that the issue truly does lie with one's personal comfort. Well comfortable or not, life goes on, and to ask that it be set aside or suspended, or that a person be denied their rights or must disrupt their lives to allow for your comfort is highly disrespectful of others.