MomtoLJ wrote:

> Don't just read the article, but click on the link to see and hear the 
> commentary... it appeared on TV.  It is horrible until the end, when 
> the female newscaster makes some great remarks!
> http://www.komotv.com/stories/37268.htm
> l
>
As an Australian, living in Australia and watching from afar the uproar 
this has caused, and not to be disrespectful to anyone from the US, but 
what I can't get over in the commentary of this entire issue is the 
hypocrisy.  The people all object to a woman b/f her baby in public, 
something that is mostly taken for granted here in Australia, but it is 
the constant referral to it being natural "like peeing" What the?????
Don't these people get it?  The hypocrisy that annoys me the most is 
that they go on and on about not everybody wants to see the mom exposing 
herself to feed her baby.
We get a lot of US shows etc, and I must say that it seems perfectly ok 
for the culture especially the media to show a woman with huge (usually 
fake boobs) advertising anything from cars to whatever, but god forbid 
she should take her breast out of her bra for 5-10 seconds to attach her 
baby, then lower her shirt etc. Oh the exposure of it all!
For goodness sake, do most Americans go the beach or in the pool in neck 
to knees?  No, didn't think so........
rant over...

-- 
Merewyn Janson (RN) student midwife
Australian Breastfeeding Association counsellor ('98)
Redbank Plains, Queensland, Australia


"Women should not feel guilty if they are unable to breastfeed, but they *should* feel guilty if they are unwilling to do so, and they should be intellectually honest enough to know the difference." -Elizabeth Gene

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