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19-03-2014 12:58 PM |
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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
(Post 6761469)
I still have literally no idea why anyone's "feelings" come into the equation at all... But anyway. If she was genuinely doing it knowingly to prove some sort of "point" then yes, the timing was poor. However if she simply didn't realise that it would be an issue (which it shouldn't be, having a problem with it IS immature, but I can appreciate that war vets are generally old enough to still be suffering the aftereffects of the Victorian era) then I don't see the need for demonising or suggesting that she did anything "wrong". Again, what's worse at a remembrance service? A baby being fed in a completely normal way, or a hungry baby crying and disrupting the entire thing?
And if the solution is to suggest that babies shouldn't be there at all... Then in my opinion, the entire point of remembrance becomes an absolute sham. Remembrance is about remembering that men gave their lives supposedly to defend *freedom* ... If people's strange and misplaced values and inability to think of a nipple as anything other than genitalia still result in pointless oppression, then what on earth was the point of any of it?
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Flopping your boobs out in a church full of elderly veterans IS immature in my opinion. But hey, we're not going to agree on this. If someone wants to feed their kid, don't worry where you are, just do it... because no one's feeling matter apparently but those of the woman breast feeding in public.
And the notion that those men fought in conflicts so some middle-class tart can breast feed in a church is just about the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard and cheapens the notion of fighting for freedom.
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