Breastfeeding: It’s Not A Crime!

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Here we go again. Seriously, when will some people learn?

Mom told to stop breastfeeding in NYS Museum

In New York, the law states you can breastfeed in any public place. But an Albany woman says a State Museum employee must not know that. Kristin Kelly is a young mother of three including a 4 month old she breast feeds.

Tuesday she says she was insulted and humiliated for feeding her baby in public even though she knew she was well within the law.

“I absolutely felt like I was doing something wrong,” said Kristin Kelly with tears in her eyes.

Kelly and her three children ages 5, 3 and little four month old Zachary were enjoying an afternoon at the New York State Museum. Near the end of their visit Zachary got hungry and Kristin says she found a bench up against a wall and began to breast feed her baby.

“I sat down and made sure I was covered, three blankets over him actually, and I began to nurse, while my other two children sat beside me,” she said.

Suddenly, according to Kristin all this was interrupted.

“A lady that said she was an employee of the museum they had another person report me and so I had to go to the bathroom where they had a chair set up where you could nurse or I would have to leave the museum,” she said.

Kristin says was speechless when the woman with the museum ID tag came back a second time, stared at her and asked her to move again.Read more >>>

People, people, people. Breastfeeding is none of the following:

• obscene
• immoral
• sexual
• perverted
• or any other stupid thing you come up with because you don’t like your view of boobs to be blocked by a baby.

And if she was covered with 3 blankets, which is insane to me, that already blows your whole “trying to get attention/flashing her boobs everywhere” idiocy out of the water. I’d also like to point that being in a museum there are likely to be images displayed that are more likely to corrupt your children’s poor innocent eyes than a woman simply feeding her baby. Heck, I see more obscenity just going to the mall than a breastfeeding woman.

Get over yourselves already. Your personal feelings do not create laws out of thin air. Trust me, if they did there would be a whole lot of people not allowed to talk in public because they offend me with their every word. Luckily we live in America, you know with all that freedom and stuff. Which, by the way, means freedom for other people too. Even the ones doing stuff you don’t like. Like blocking your peep show with a baby’s head or reminding you that boobs weren’t created to sell beer and sports cars. Inconvenient, I know.

And yes, before it’s pointed out I’m well aware that the museum worker was a woman. A) Some women, surprisingly, like other women and might have wanted a peep show just like some men do, and B) many women buy into the patriarchal crap of “boobs are for men only”.  So just because she has a pair doesn’t mean she doesn’t think they should be covered up unless bouncing in a bikini on a beer commercial.

Update

 The museum thinks some one pretended to be an employee there to make the woman leave. If that’s true it sounds like a serious case of someone knowing they were wrong. Whomever the woman was she knew she had no right telling the mother to take it to the bathroom or leave, so she pretneded to be someone that she wasn’t in hopes of intimadating the woman enough. This just pisses me off.

At least there’s always the comics to make me feel better.

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