Comments on: I don’t need to see your milk machines but I do want to see your breasts

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:13:56 +0000

I know this is months after your long rant comparing breastfeeding to smoking, but smoking wasn’t banned because it’s “annoying.”

You see, unlike cigarettes, breastfeeding does not fill a room with cancer. Just hunger … and longing …

By: Sophia

Sophia — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:48:56 +0000

Well maybe if it’s not showing the nipple. The breast inself people don’t think of as offensive so much as a woman’s nipple. I mean, I don’t have a problem with seeing bare breasts. My sister has seen mine and she doesn’t even have them yet.

By: K

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:17:00 +0000

Congratz, you’re an idiot.

By: Marco

Marco — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:51:37 +0000

Here’s the deal. This article is about placing breastfeeding pictures on Facebook. Until this point, men and women have been arguing about many other things, getting off topic most of the way. I will try to get people back on topic. Here in the U.S., smoking has been banned from restaurants and other similar public places. It is because non-smokers should not be subject to second-hand smoke. But what about the rights of smokers? It comes down to this: in a place where there are many types of people who don’t know each other, the ones doing the annoying thing must stop. It is called being considerate. I cannot start playing a trombone during a movie at a theater based on the same reasoning. Basically, the person who is bothering someone else loses to the one not bothering anyone with their personal actions. Should babies be breastfed? Seems to have many excellent reasons. Should it be done in public WHEN OTHERS CAN SEE IT HAPPENING? Not if it bothers others in a public place. Use a scarf to cover up, go to a private room, or take some other actions to be considerate to strangers. If you think it is natural and you aren’t embarrassed, then do it. But DO NOT COMPLAIN when others stare or are annoyed. Your choice, your consequences. Too bad for you.

By: Robin Gatdula

Robin Gatdula — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:33:45 +0000

Hey Bobby don’t you mean the subject went from Facebook to breastfeeding? And it’s funny because I was just going to bring up that point when I read yours. I guess some people feel it’s the principle of the idea. But, then again like you said (in other words) who ever is in charge with Facebook has the rights and what they say goes. So I say, “Women find a site where ‘anything goes’ or start one of your own… and then every one is happy. Well, not really but it sounds good.

By: Robin Gatdula

Robin Gatdula — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:46:43 +0000

I just read your comment on your friends wife and I say … “That must have been cool! and I wish it had been me! or should I say … me too – me too please!” You lucky dog!!!

By: Elisabeth

Elisabeth — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:06:25 +0000

I definitely see the point of the new mothers that have no alternative but to nurse their child where they are at. I have several friends who do put the blanket over the child’s head. I agree that is a private moment between a mother and child. If she didn’t I would leave the room.

As far as the other group of mothers who wish to publish their breastfeeding pictures on facebook, please keep in mind this is a SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE. There are several underage impressional children that go on here, therefore it is not appropriate for these pics to be on display for the world to see. It’s not as simple as “not going to look at the pictures”. I am sure as mothers you understand that you cannot be standing at the computer every waking minute monitoring your child’s activities. You can set filters, however pushing facebook to remove the ban could push the envelope and would be an open door for other things. Also think about what you post because once it’s out there, it can come back to haunt you.

By: Bobby Finstock

Bobby Finstock — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:43:05 +0000

See you are changing the argument from breastfeeding as a whole from putting pictures on a public website for people that are underage to see.

Big difference. Also it is a private site, if they choose to think people wearing trucker hats are offensive and delete their pictures and account you have to go along with it.

This is seriously the dumbest controversy I have seen with social media.

By: Yillup

Yillup — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:07:39 +0000

You poor thing. I feel sorry for you. To spend your life so ignorant and deluded.

Do you eat YOUR food with a blanket over your head? No? Why does a child have to? If you are eating away from home do you prepare your meal before-hand, freeze it and then microwave it until it’s lost a whole lot of nutrients just so no-one sees where the food came from to begin with? No? Why does a child have to?

Is your comfort SO much more important than a child’s right to eat? Is YOUR comfort (that can be eased by turning your head a little) so much more important than the comfort of a child who is eating? Why are YOU so much better than a baby? Because you can talk? Because you’re old enough to swear and type on a computer?

Facebook’s terms of use mention not posting things that are obscene.

“upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make available any content that we deem to be harmful, threatening, unlawful, defamatory, infringing, abusive, inflammatory, harassing, vulgar, obscene, fraudulent, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;”

No mention whatsoever of the whole breast or nipple or anything. It is just what Facebook has arbitrarily decided is “obscene”.

I have said before that I have posted a photo of myself feeding on facebook. I have the legal right to breastfeed my child in front of whoever I waished. The Queen, the President of the USA, whoever. If I have the right to do it in person to anyone at all, why is it so bad to put a picture of it on the internet?

In reply to you again Kate – if it offends you turn away or put a blanket over your own head.

So fucking simple.

By: bunky600

bunky600 — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:22:40 +0000

My best friend got married to a lovely huge breasted goddess, he impregnated her & she bore a sweet child. However, much to my chagrin and absolute embarrassment, his wife delighted in whipping out her luscious tits and breast feeding in front of me in their home, in the minivan, at the mall. The more I blushed, & the harder my cock tried to burst out of my pants the more seductive and satisfied her moans and glances ans smirks became. The final straw came when she demonstrated her double breast pump, and insisted that I help her use it. We pumped her boobs for sure — then she made me suck it, claiming it was just a taste test for hr kid. Damn it. I am now scarred for life, thanks a lot…