India Knight: Well, pardon my breasts

The Sunday Times ^ | March 2, 2003 | India Knight

[Pharmboy]

Lemme try again...she's on the left.

[MadIvan]

There are a couple of charming Winston Churchill stories regaring women with large breasts:

While in Washington on a speaking tour in 1900, Churchill was introduced to a generously proportioned woman - from Richmond, Virginia. Proud of her family's adherence to the former Confederacy, and still not accepting the Reconstruction - the process of re-incorporating the southern states into the United States - she declared, as she gave him her hand, "Mr. Churchill, you see before you a rebel who has not been Reconstructed."

"Madam," he replied, gazing upon her imposing bosom, "reconstruction in your case would be blasphemous.

And:

Getting on for half a century later, Churchill visited Richmond, Virginia, where a sculpture of him was being unveiled. A magnificently Rubenesque lady came up to him and cooed enthusiastically at him: "Mr. Churchill, I want you to know I got up at dawn and drove a hundred miles for the unveiling of your bust."

Looking at her generous endowments, Churchill answered, "Madam, I want you to know that I would happily reciprocate the honour."

Am I to believe from this that women in Virginia all have large breasts? ;)

Regards, Ivan

[Rocky]

If men can’t differentiate between bosoms doing their thing and bosoms bursting alluringly out of a bra on a billboard — well, it’s about time they tried harder and time we stopped indulging them.

Lady, I wish you could be a man for just a little while.

[Pharmboy]

Well, it has been said that the women of the Old Dominion are the fairest in the colonies...the ampleness of their bosoms certainly couldn't hurt!

Thanks for the Churchill anecdotes...hadn't heard them before, but they seem in character!

Cheers,
PB

[A. Pole]

it would be absurd to deny women the right to feed their children in public.

I know of no such 'right', nor of any that protects exposing oneself in public.

What about a right to feed a baby with an artificial formula? Is eating allowed in public on condition that it is based on artificial ingredients? Can grown-up people eat in public?

All this rights talk is ridiculous - it is based on false Enlightenment myth of lone savages dropped into the primordial wilderness without any parents to take care of them (to breast-feed them without formula, o horror) but endowed with the absolute set of rights to be negotiated away in the social contracts.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

There’s a problem here and it’s not the mother’s: it’s to do with men having instantly sexual reactions to a bosom.

That's the problem right there. The "bosom" shouldn't be on display when a woman is breastfeeding, but should be discreetly covered. Yet, I have NEVER seen a woman who is breastfeeding do this. The breasts are on full display for all to see. If women were discreet, and properly covered, there would not be this problem. But since they are not discreet, that's why there's a problem.

[ricpic]

The woman, Kirstie Marshall, was clearly trying to stick it, so to speak, in the collective eye of the old boy network.

All this talk about prudery, or lack of tolerance, is just cover, for those who know the rules and are hell bent on breaking them.

[Dianna]

So you won't mind if my spouse and I 'go for it' in our front yard?

You don't truly equate feeding a baby with sex, do you?

Is a bottle feeder similar to someone using a vibrator in public? Ban them too?

[Dianna]

Mothers, who breastfeed in public, are exhibitionistic feminists. You're " silly " to think that any " natural " act should not be hidden from view. You get over it

Are you nuts? Do you really think new mothers are rushing out to the mall so they can defiantly breastfeed infront of total strangers? Do you think these women have nothing better to do?

Sorry, but most likely the mom has things which need to get done and breastfed babies tend to get hungry often.

[Dianna]

That's the problem right there. The "bosom" shouldn't be on display when a woman is breastfeeding, but should be discreetly covered. Yet, I have NEVER seen a woman who is breastfeeding do this

Might I suggest that you have seen plenty of women breastfeeding who are covered up, and because they are covered, you haven't noticed it?

I have very rarely seen a breastfeeding mother who isn't at least attempting to be discreet. It isn't always easy. But to suggest that "most" breastfeeding women are baring their breasts is simply ridiculous.

[nopardons]

No, I'm most assiredly NOT " nuts " and am a mother. I think that any mother, of a newborn, or older child, who " rushes off to a mall ", when she knows her baby's feeding schedule, is NUTS ! Besides, the mother, in question, in this article, if you would take the time to read it, wants to breast feed in THE HOUSE OF COMMONS , DURING SESSIONS ! That's not acceptable. Well, not to me; maybe to YOU, it is. How Hitleryesque !

Nursing mothers, who feel it incumbent upon them, to be in the work force, should expell their milk, put it in bottles, and hire a nanny. Either stay home and nurse ( and don't drag the poor wee bae to a bloody mall ( ! ) , or make other arrangements for the care and feeding of said baby. Or, the women could choose to not have a baby at all. See... there are three good alternatives to her problem and those who think that everyone else should accomodate their whwims. :-)

[nopardons]

I have NO problem with " discreation ". It's those, who demand that it is their " right " to opening nurse in public ( and in the House of Commons, ON THE FLOOR ! ), with whom I have problems.

I only have one child. OTOH, one of my dearest, oldest, and best friends has four. No, she NEVER had to openly nurse in public; not once. So, there goes that position. OTOH, I knew a woman, who OPENLY and FLAGRANTLY nursed her son, until he was five. It was NOT done with good taste and I can only surmise that she had / has mental problems.

I don't have any " hangups ", which need taking care of, dear. Respectfully, I suggest that some women, who feel the need to exhibit themselves and demand to do in public, what should be done in private/not ostentaciously, are the ones with " hangups. :-)

[nopardons]

No wonder so many children, today, have problems; no schedules. LOL

Seriously, children usually put themselves on feeding schedules; Dr. Spock ( who was wrong about so very much ! ), or not.

[nopardons]

Did you, perchance, NOT read the article, nor the rest of this thread ? " DISCREET " isn't what this English member, of the House of Commons, or many of the posters, are talking about ; though I did . So did you. Stop being so emotional, calm down, and read what is written ; instead of imagining what isn't there and replying to that.

Frankly, I have a problem with anyone who flaunts body parts, which should remain hidden; no matter who is doing it. As the old saying goes : discreation is the better part of valor. :-)