Posted on 07/30/2005 8:15:50 AM PDT by Asphalt
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Never mind officials voiding a $50 ticket for indecent exposure, or an explanation from county officials that a ranger who issued the citation to the breast-feeding mother was inexperienced.
Dorian Ryan said she wants an apology for what she called a "humiliating and degrading" experience.
"This isn't right. Women shouldn't be harassed for breast-feeding their children," Dorian Ryan said.
Colorado lawmakers agree. A law passed last year gives women the right to breast feed anywhere she's allowed to be in public.
Ryan, 43, was ticketed for indecent exposure July 14 when she breast fed her son at the Carter Lake swim beach in Larimer County. She was shielded from view by two umbrellas and a towel.
An inexperienced park ranger mistakenly issued the ticket, said Dan Rieves, manager of the Blue Mountain District, which oversees the beach. Park officials have voided the ticket.
Rieves, who has been in contact with Ryan, said a written apology would be sent Friday.
I stand with you, so let's put on our asbestos underthings, 'cause the flames are incoming!
You do not make any sense whatsoever.
The worst - the absolute WORST - is when the kid is large enough to dive under Mom's shirt and hunt for the spigot.
Oh, my GOD.
(I am not making that up. Fortunately, I have only seen it the once.)
As I've explained on many a similar thread, if you (okay, your wife) is doing it discreetly enough, by definition I will not notice.
It's the women who announce, "Well, looks like it's feedin' time for Junior," and haul out the left one and attach the kid without even tossing a blanket over his head, to whom I object.
And for some reason, they always do it in food-serving establishments. I've never observed it in (say) Best Buy.
That's it, when the idiots who equate urinating, defecating, masturbating and gynecological exams with breastfeeding start showing up, I'm history.
Hair, I'll talk to you later. Got chores to do outside before it gets dark.
Then the next level of management should deal with it, ideally with financial penalties.
Unfortunately, these are government employees, so the change of any sensible action's being taken is practically nil.
There's nowhere to sit in Best Buy. But in Office Depot, I've been known to sit in an office chair, turn my back to anyone in sight, and feed a baby, while Der Prinz browses software. To the best of my knowledge, nobody's ever noticed.
Your post #272 is a very fine post: reasonable, well-expressed, and I find little or nothing in it to disagree with.
My only eyebrow twitch came from this: "Second, if you support breastfeeding with no regard to modesty...
I haven't analyzed each and every one of the at-present 289 posts on this thread, although I've at least scanned 100% of them; and I haven't seen ANYBODY who "supports breastfeeding with no regard to modesty."
So I was, I confess, rather stunned by the vehemence of some of the attacks on that -- uh, straw-mama? I appreciate your argument in #272 against the let-it-all-hang-out position; but I was taken aback by the rather brutal language of some folks' posts, which seemed weirdly unrelated both to the original article, and to the wholesome pro-modest-breastfeeding comments presented on this thread.
Um, ewwww.
Gross---those breastfeeding exhibitionists are inconsiderate boobs.......
You just KNOW that's gotta hurt.
SFI, I very rarely agree with Matt on anything, and I gotta say I'm with him on this one.
That's why you put your baby on a schedule. I understand (from my mother who had three, my sister who has three, my aunt who has three . . . you get the picture) that schedules make happier babies AND parents.
Damn, Di, that is FUNNY! I don't care who y'are.
I'll go y'all one better.
My sister was allergic to our mother's milk, and to all formulas. The only thing she could hold down for the first six months was goat milk.
Talk about a rancid-smelling baby! (This was in the '70s, for the record. I think formulas are improved now.)
Agreed.
Unfortunately, these are government employees, so the change of any sensible action's being taken is practically nil.
That's why a degree of public shaming and humiliation in the form of an apology letter is a reasonable request. If the officials become hostile or angry for having to eat crow for their own wrongful actions, then fire their butts.
Something to be said for that suggestion ... but it assumes public employees are capable of shame, which is a parlous question. Our local school superintendent, for example ...
Well, that's another issue. Anything that would work towards the dismissal of an employee who's regularly precipitating incidents (of this or any kind) is good. But boy it's hard to get rid of them!
Around here, a baby with soda in its bottle will - not might, but WILL - grow up to wear a mullet and a wife-beater shirt, and drive a Firebird.
Oh yeah, and listen to Skynyrd.
(Xena hath spoken.)
That's really interesting... because I have a friend who adopted a baby from an orphanage in Romania. One of the interesting observations she made when she picked her up was that she just had an odor that eminated from her, bathing didn't lessen it. Hard to tell what it smelled like except perhaps sour milk and/or garlic. Back in America, on American formula, her smell went away in short order. It was just one of the things that made us go hmmmm.... what they were feeding her, we had no idea.
So does this mean you agree that "because its natural" is a weak argument?
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