Posted on 11/18/2006 6:22:21 AM PST by Mr. Brightside
Well, it IS Freedom Airlines. Guess you are free to walk about the cabin... and bare a breast or two.
That's how my wife wins all our arguments.
That's too bad. I think this woman (the breast-feeder) went looking to start a scene, and did. Now that the airline has basically admitted fault by punishing the flight attendant, this lady can file a nice big lawsuit for all her pain and suffering and emotional trauma. Which may have been the plan all along.
I am offended by what you are doing."
That is a little ego centric, if you ask me.
The Bible suggest five years. (No I am not going to look it up for you.)
Reduced liklyhood of pregnancy while breastfeeding is probably why the woldwide average is 2 years.
My sister-in-law nursed all four of her kids until they were 3. She lives in Japan, I guess it's more common there.
I say, once the teeth came in, I was done =8-0
What better food could there be? Created by God, designed specifically for each individual child...Why would you want to force anything else on their immature little tummies?
And I do believe in breast feeding and did it until my daughter was 11 months.
You were feeding a daughter, not a militant agenda.
I've been thinking it was a woman, but I really don't know.
Setting aside the 22 month issue...the flight attendant was over reacting...this should not have ever happened...
I think anyone involved with air travel these days have been given too much power to order us around. Don't get me started on gels and liquids!
(Oh, I guess we are talking liquid!! Surprised a lactating woman got thru security!! Boob Bombs!)
"The tyranny of people with a little power continues"
Are you referring to the behavior of the flight attendent or of the nursing mother. The flight attendent should not have booted the woman off the plane. BUT the nursing mother should have been a little more sensitive to the other passengers. I'm sure any adolescent boys, or adolescent men for that matter, would not be uncomfortable with a woman breast-feeding in public. However, there were probably more than a few passengers who would find the behavior inappropriate.
The woman proved her point, which I would be quite willing to wager, was not the furthest thing from her mind, either before, during. or after the act.
The offer of the blanket was not offensive and should have given someone a clue that baring one's breast in public is not everyone's idea of normal decency.
I eagerly (not really) await someone to decide that since defecation is a natural act, people should not be offended if we do it in public. Apologies (not really) to Jim Morrison of the Doors.
The "discipline" was probably a note in the employee's personnel file.
"When Dngbats Collide" could be the headline for the whole situation, in my opinion.
She was also sitting at the window seat. her husband was on the aisle seat. Seems to me you had to be looking to see anything.
Yeah, sitting in the back of the plane, by the window, with her husband blocking her from view as much as possible...darn exhibitionist.
La Leche League has a militant agenda?
Interesting. If a passenger does or says anything to upset the crew of a plane they can be charged with a federal crime and face a long prison sentence. Maybe we should have laws that work both ways.
Oops, that would be "Dingbats." "Dungbats" would be rude!
Yes...those The Milk Club is a militant agenda!!
Those broads are relentless!
So he should be eating steak, potatoes and tofu?
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