In yesterday's Chicago Tribune:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/north/chi-0302280304feb28,1,2844330
.story
Mothers' breasts
Paul Rapoport, Topfree Equal Rights Association
Published February 28, 2003
Ancaster, Ontario -- Columnist Ross Werland's "Playing peekaboo with
breasts" (Q, Feb. 23) was a winner. He found the solution to several
problems when he suggested decriminalizing the female breast.
As he pointed out, laws aside, nursing mothers are expected to be
"discreet." Too bad tots don't know the concept. They may capriciously lift
Mom's shirt, fuss and fail to latch on on command, or complain loudly when
hit in the head with a blanket or when required to have their meal in a
toilet facility.
Solution: Decriminalize the female breast. No state should ever have to
legalize public breast-feeding. That confirms women's breasts to be
fundamentally unacceptable because they are indecent. Except, of course,
when men throw five bucks at them while guzzling a beer.
Women's breasts belong to women as much as men's belong to men. If women
expose theirs merely to enjoy the same warm air that men may on a nice
summer day, that is their right, same as men's.
Only then will breast-feeding truly suit its two participants and not have
to pander to onlookers' baseless enmity. It is really unjust to women to
take every sighting of their nipples as an excuse for moralistic combat.
Copyright © 2003, Chicago Tribune
We are looking forward to the appearance of professor Paul Rapoport of
McMaster University, Hamilton, as well as Dr. Jack Newman at our upcoming
breastfeeding conference in Edmonton, Alberta, May 30-31, 2003:
http://www.breastfeeding.macewan.ca/
Barb Strange
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