USA: Mother gets hate mail after being photographed breastfeeding at rally

[Crimson Dynamo]

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-election/12185573/Mother-gets-hate-mail-after-being-photographed-breastfeeding-at-Bernie-Sanders-rally.html


A mother who was photographed in the middle of a Bernie Sanders rally breastfeeding her baby, inspiring a social media phenomenon with the hashtag #BoobsForBernie, says she is receiving hate mail.

Margaret Bradford, of Ohio, was at an event near Cleveland last week with her six-month-old daughter Harper.

“While there, she got hungry like babies do, and unbeknownst to me at the time a reporter took this photo of us,” she wrote in a Facebook post.

Ms Bradford, a supporter of public breastfeeding who has three children under four, shared the photograph and also urged other mothers to do the same.

“Honestly I’ve cried three times already from some of the hateful messages I’ve received, telling me my daughter should be taken or that I’m just an uneducated lowlife hick,” she wrote.




Could she not just get her mother to look after the bairn while she does cheerleading at a political rally? :umm2:

[Niamh.]

People are so prudish when it comes to what breasts are actually for. No doubt if it was a picture of a girl wearing really revealing clothes just for the sake of it no one would say a word

[Crimson Dynamo]

People are so prudish when it comes to what breasts are actually for. No doubt if it was a picture of a girl wearing really revealing clothes just for the sake of it no one would say a word


If she puts the pick on social media I am not sure what she expected?

universal acclaim?

[Niamh.]

If she puts the pick on social media I am not sure what she expected?

universal acclaim?

Who actually gives a s**t though? Why do you care where and when she feeds her baby? :shrug:

[Smithy]

Idc that she's breastfeeding, but it seems a bit stupid to take your child to a political rally where it's gonna be packed and really really loud?

[Crimson Dynamo]

Who actually gives a s**t though? Why do you care where and when she feeds her baby? :shrug:

I suppose she is moaning about it and i am thinking well

1. seems a funny place to take a baby
2. dont put the image on social media and start moaning when the hate arrives

[Northern Monkey]

Now i'm all for women breast feeding anywhere they like but the fact she put on Facebook and asked everyone to share it suggests to me that she was looking for a reaction.Then she cried about it?

[MTVN]

Not appropriate

[DemolitionRed]

That baby looks totally un-bothered about the noise going on around her and as for her breastfeeding in a very, very public place; so frigging what, its not like you can see anything.

Americans are still well behind the times about breast feeding in public but thanks to people like her, times are improving. People who get offended by it are only offended by it because they see some sexual connotation in it. That's their problem, not the mother who just feeds her hungry child as and when required.

[Tom4784]

People who are offended by breastfeeding are beyond silly but it's dumb to take your baby to a rally, surely it's not good for their ears.

[DemolitionRed]

People who are offended by breastfeeding are beyond silly but it's dumb to take your baby to a rally, surely it's not good for their ears.

I just went and looked up to see if babies ears are more sensitive than adults and actually they are. A fire alarm is enough to damage a babies ears so the horns used a a rally definitely could.

[Kizzy]

I suppose she is moaning about it and i am thinking well

1. seems a funny place to take a baby
2. dont put the image on social media and start moaning when the hate arrives

Why is it a funny place to take a baby.. What is wrong with taking a baby to hear someone speak?
I have no idea why anyone would object to it, trolls are just sad losers maybe if they had been breastfed as a child they wouldn't grow up so retentive.
Shame she read and took on board anything they had to say.

[Marsh.]

If she puts the pick on social media I am not sure what she expected?

universal acclaim?

She was photographed by other people?

[bots]

She was photographed by other people?


Ms Bradford, a supporter of public breastfeeding who has three children under four, shared the photograph and also urged other mothers to do the same.

[Marsh.]

Ms Bradford, a supporter of public breastfeeding who has three children under four, shared the photograph and also urged other mothers to do the same.

After the whole "furore" over the original photo from the OP?

[Kizzy]

Laughable that the trolls have to attempt to denigrate Sanders supporters by trolling nursing mothers.... In the hope it will eclipse the white supremacists at trumps :laugh:

[MTVN]

Sorry but it's the mothers who I find arrogant in the extreme expecting their wishes to trump everyone elses, the world does not revolve around them and any breastfeeding should be done as discreetly as possible

[user104658]

Sorry but it's the mothers who I find arrogant in the extreme expecting their wishes to trump everyone elses, the world does not revolve around them and any breastfeeding should be done as discreetly as possible

Nah, can't get on board with that. By your logic, those stupid little man-buns that I keep seeing guys with these days should be banned or kept discreetly under a cap because I find them personally offensive to look at. Who do they think they are? So arrogant.

[MTVN]

Nah, can't get on board with that. By your logic, those stupid little man-buns that I keep seeing guys with these days should be banned or kept discreetly under a cap because I find them personally offensive to look at. Who do they think they are? So arrogant.

But by the 'its perfectly natural' logic people should all just piss and defecate anywhere and everywhere, who is anybody to get offended by a natural need after all

[user104658]

But by the 'its perfectly natural' logic people should all just piss and defecate anywhere and everywhere, who is anybody to get offended by a natural need after all

That would be illegal, and for good reason, because it would be unhygienic and spread disease. Breastfeeding in public (or anywhere else) is neither illegal, nor unhygienic. "It makes some poor wittle people get all upsetty-wetty in their wittle faces" is not a good reason to ban or condemn... well... anything at all.

Ban things that are hazardous to peoples' health, by all means. Other than that? If you start banning things just because "some people don't like it"... EVERYTHING will be banned.

[DemolitionRed]

But by the 'its perfectly natural' logic people should all just piss and defecate anywhere and everywhere, who is anybody to get offended by a natural need after all

You relate breast feeding a baby in public to pissing or defecating in public?
Do you think the mother should go into a public toilet to feed her baby?

[Vicky.]

Bit of an odd place to take a baby tbf. But those who get all uppity about boobs being used for what they are meant to be used for are stupid. Having said that those who breastfeed in stooopid places (such as on santas knee for a photo op) are stupid too.

Too many seem to do it in random places JUST to shock/get comments/attention.

[Vicky.]

Sorry but it's the mothers who I find arrogant in the extreme expecting their wishes to trump everyone elses, the world does not revolve around them and any breastfeeding should be done as discreetly as possible

Wishing to feed your baby is a ott request of people or something?

I do not understand the pee/poo argument at all either tbh

Unless you would also wish a bottle feeding mother to feed her baby in a toilet, or equate a baby drinking a bottle with someone having a gargantuan crap in the middle of a street? :laugh:

Though as I said, those who would not look out of place without a neon sign flashing saying 'look at me, I have my breasts out', who seem to try their hardest to get attention..theres no need for those people either.

[MTVN]

You relate breast feeding a baby in public to pissing or defecating in public?
Do you think the mother should go into a public toilet to feed her baby?

Yes absolutely, thank you DR for providing a sensible solution

[MTVN]

I admit I'm half joking but I really don't think its unreasonable for mothers to be discreet about something like that, it's not particularly hard to do so and though it doesn't bother me massively it''s also something that I don't think I need to be privy to

[Vicky.]

I admit I'm half joking but I really don't think its unreasonable for mothers to be discreet about something like that, it's not particularly hard to do so and though it doesn't bother me massively it''s also something that I don't think I need to be privy to

Oh on that I agree. There is no need to draw as much attention to yourself as possible like some seem to. Its ridiculously easy to just sit in a coffee shop and feed without announcing to the whole place and its dog that you are doing so :D

[Northern Monkey]

I can't understand anyone being offended by it.I think most people with kids understand that it's just a necessity and is the least sexual thing in the world.However it seems that this lady was drawing attention to it and trying to make a point or be controversial to those people who don't understand or are in some way offended by it.I mean what did she expect.It was either a lesson well learned or as i suspect mission accomplished by her.

[user104658]

I can't understand anyone being offended by it.I think most people with kids understand that it's just a necessity and is the least sexual thing in the world.

Indeed, the only people I'ver ever known to have a problem with it are younger, childless and perhaps slightly immature people (usually male) who can't draw a line between boobs as sex objects and boobs as baby-feeders (they are of course both, under different circumstances :hehe: )... or sometimes, mothers who couldn't / didn't breastfeed for whatever reason and are a bit "touchy" about it, or feel like they are being "judged" just because others have done it, or that it's somehow being rubbed in their face. Note that this of course doesn't at all apply to all non-breastfeeding mothers, just a few.

[Northern Monkey]

Indeed, the only people I'ver ever known to have a problem with it are younger, childless and perhaps slightly immature people (usually male) who can't draw a line between boobs as sex objects and boobs as baby-feeders (they are of course both, under different circumstances :hehe: )... or sometimes, mothers who couldn't / didn't breastfeed for whatever reason and are a bit "touchy" about it, or feel like they are being "judged" just because others have done it, or that it's somehow being rubbed in their face. Note that this of course doesn't at all apply to all non-breastfeeding mothers, just a few.
Yeah,Thinking back i think i was like that when i was younger(much younger).Always trying to look past the babies head to get a glimpse of the pink nosed puppy.So i actually can understand looking at it from that perspective but what i should have said is 'i can't understand how otherwise mature adults could be offended or see boobs as only toys instead of their other purpose'

[user104658]

Yeah,Thinking back i think i was like that when i was younger(much younger).Always trying to look past the babies head to get a glimpse of the pink nosed puppy.So i actually can understand looking at it from that perspective but what i should have said is 'i can't understand how otherwise mature adults could be offended or see boobs as only toys instead of their other purpose'
Social conditioning. Boobs are big business $$$$. Can't have them tainted with dirty babies and their repulsive feeding habits.

[Ammi]

..I don't know, I'm just becoming a little sceptical of these things..not boobs, they're very lovely and natural, I'm not sceptical about those, just more that a photographer happened to find those boobs/that pic of a mother breast-feeding in the sea of people at the rally and Bernie is a big supporter of the boob/Boobs for Bernie etc and him thanking her for breast-feeding at his rally... If you want to breastfeed your child at a Bernie Sanders rally, he won't mind. In fact, he might actually commend you on fulfilling your motherly duties..so yeah, were those boobs planted there, as it were ...I know that Trump was in some dispute with a female lawyer once over her using a breast pump or wanting to in front of him, so it's obviously no female humps for Trump with the opposite of Boobs for Bernie, so a good thing..(and convenient thing possibly..?..) to have happened at one of Bernie's rallies as it allows him to reinforce his views on breast-feeding in public and how fully supportive he is and I would have thought that all of the 'outrage' just adds in his favour....not that I would care really because I like Bernie a lot, he's saying all of the right things, seems like a really decent guy with some good ideals and values but I'm just not sure about this..is it all a bit convenient, the pic being taken and put up as it was, hmmmm....I will not get all hot under the collar about boobs ..:laugh:...

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Mayne I'm gonna breast feed the heck out of my child. :amazed:


This is nonsense. How does people complaining think they got strong in the first years of their lives? Breastfeeding is essential.

[Kizzy]

But by the 'its perfectly natural' logic people should all just piss and defecate anywhere and everywhere, who is anybody to get offended by a natural need after all

Are you trying to equate breast milk and urine?

[bots]

If she had been pictured taking a dump in the corner, that would have been a news item ... Women shows what she thinks of Bernie :joker:

[Kizzy]

If she had been pictured taking a dump in the corner, that would have been a news item ... Women shows what she thinks of Bernie :joker:

Take a dump on Trump...yes, that's got a nice ring to it ( no pun intended)

[DemolitionRed]

Take a dump on Trump...yes, that's got a nice ring to it ( no pun intended)

I just spat my coffee :joker:

[user104658]

Are you trying to equate breast milk and urine?

"Breastfeeding in public = pissing in public" is easily one of the top 5 most used arguments against it. Probably top 3. The only explanation I can think of, is that people are so confused about the operation of the human body that they believe breasts to be genitals.

[arista]

..I don't know, I'm just becoming a little sceptical of these things..not boobs, they're very lovely and natural, I'm not sceptical about those, just more that a photographer happened to find those boobs/that pic of a mother breast-feeding in the sea of people at the rally and Bernie is a big supporter of the boob/Boobs for Bernie etc and him thanking her for breast-feeding at his rally... If you want to breastfeed your child at a Bernie Sanders rally, he won't mind. In fact, he might actually commend you on fulfilling your motherly duties..so yeah, were those boobs planted there, as it were ...I know that Trump was in some dispute with a female lawyer once over her using a breast pump or wanting to in front of him, so it's obviously no female humps for Trump with the opposite of Boobs for Bernie, so a good thing..(and convenient thing possibly..?..) to have happened at one of Bernie's rallies as it allows him to reinforce his views on breast-feeding in public and how fully supportive he is and I would have thought that all of the 'outrage' just adds in his favour....not that I would care really because I like Bernie a lot, he's saying all of the right things, seems like a really decent guy with some good ideals and values but I'm just not sure about this..is it all a bit convenient, the pic being taken and put up as it was, hmmmm....I will not get all hot under the collar about boobs ..:laugh:...


Yes the Young love Uncle Bernie

Clinton Woman was giving Live interviews
she had to admit that
Bernie gets all the Young Mums voting for him
and not her.,


Sadly Bernie does not have her
massive amount of Delegates

So he will not be the Number 1

[arista]

Mayne I'm gonna breast feed the heck out of my child. :amazed:


This is nonsense. How does people complaining think they got strong in the first years of their lives? Breastfeeding is essential.


Sure It Is

But some say Cover it UP

[Ammi]

Yes the Young love Uncle Bernie

Clinton Woman was giving Live interviews
she had to admit that
Bernie gets all the Young Mums voting for him
and not her.,


Sadly Bernie does not have her
massive amount of Delegates

So he will not be the Number 1

..of course and exactly, all good for the old game of politics, eh.../the finding of this young lady breast-feeding at the rally...