India Knight: Well, pardon my breasts

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

[nopardons]

Hey, women can and DO express milk, bottle it, and others feed her child, when / if she is a member of the English House of Commons, or some other such " emminent " group and must needs to be present.

Well, since I didn't breast feed my daughter, I am assuming, by your post, that her self induced schedule was due to her being bottle fed. Oh, but wait a minute, prior to Dr. Spock, La Leche League screeds, and other such things, breast fed babies put themselves on feeding , as well as sleeping schedules. Gee, historical ( rather than animal behaviorists, now claiming that human women and wild animals are the same ) factoids are hard to refute with " modern " propaganda / annecdotal refutations. LOL

[nopardons]

Yes, you're reacting, on a VERY personal level ( emotional, rather than intellectual ! ) to precieved complaints about nursing mothers, which do NOT appear in this article. BTW, this member of the HoCs, is a lefty Labourite. That's all, really, that you need to know. This isn't about " mothers' rights " ( ridiculous PC garbage ), your " feelings " , nor things you imagine are somehow connected to this thread. This woman was, FYI, offered a place , outside of the view of all, to nurse her baby. She's making a cause celebre out of thin air and so, unfortunately, are you. :-(

[nopardons]

Breats feeding, went out of " fashion " many ( about 6 or seven, actually ) decades prior to the 1950's. Before that, for centuries, women , who could, hired wet nurses, or farmed their kids off to wet nurses. Doubt me ? Go look it up. :-)

What's the " long haul " ? How many years ?

Okay, okay, OKAY ... I get the point; you're one of those fanatics , with an agenda and don't really care about anything, other than pushing breast feeding down everyone's throat. Enjoy it, glory in it, heck, I don't care what you do. OTOH, I DO care about facts, the article on threads ( you refuse to stick to the topic ), and the bloody lefty, who thinks that she should brest feed in public, in the House of Commons, and everyone else be damned. It's females like her, who make men and women, who have the ability to think rationally,that women don't belong in postions of prominence; let alone the outside world !

[nopardons]

Yes, I read them ; I even posted one of them. : -)

Those of us who did so, were replying to someone, who claimed that it was a " natural body function " and left the door WIDE open for such rebuttal. LOL

[nopardons]

Oh, now it's GOD's plan ? Well, it was GOD's plan, that we urinate, defficate, vomit, sweat, have body hair, die from measles, cancer, and the plague too, etc, ect., ect. Man has managed to circumvent / change some of those things.

Gee, sexual congress is natural and beautiful, as well, yet people don't ( shouldn't ) do that in the company of others, nor on the floor of the House of Commons, when it is in session, either.

You're a mind reader, as well as the judge and jury of me now ? Appropreating GOD's position, are you ? Get off your high horse, dear. You're the one with the agenda, who's obviously insecure / has been looked at funny whilst nursing, or had someone " insult " / hurt your feeling about it. Elsewise, you wouldn't be dragging this silly debate on and on. LOL

I merely stated factual history. You made it into a personal insult. My POINT was and is, that nursing an infant has only been " gloried ", out of all proportion, lately. As to my finances, yes, dear, I could have paid for a wet nurse, when my child was little, if such a thing were still available. It isn't and there was no need for one. Why would I have " been one ", dear ? I'm not the one raving about breast feeding here and neither was I / am I in such dire need of money; unlike you. ; ^ )

[CobaltBlue]

>>After all, taking a dump is "natural" too. Right?<<

Disgusting.

[nopardons]

The ONLY thing " bizarre, is your inability to comprehend the written word and your posts. Opps, that two things. LOL

[First Amendment]

So you won't mind if my spouse and I 'go for it' in our front yard? How about in the booth next to you at Red Lobster? God created us to celebrate our union and be fruitful and multiply, after all.

Have you ever been the sole provider of food to an infant? They need to drink milk, one way or another, about one hour on and one hour off for quite a while (for breast feeding babies, formula babies eat less often since formula is harder to digest).

Sexual intercourse and feeding a baby have very little similarity. Your comments reveal a lot of ignorance about child raising.

[Teacher317]

They are very similar in the way that is pertinent here: they are both shunned because they are embarrassing and uncomfortable for the observer. That is why it is an apt analogy.

However, since you are not happy with that analogy, and apparently the parent can't wait an extra 2 minutes to find some privacy, let's draw the analogy with someone who REALLY has GOT to go NOW, and can't get to a restroom. Is it okay for him to poop in your front yard with your kids watching? It's a necessity, it's natural, it's embarrassing for the observer, and making the actor wait 20 seconds until privacy can be found (in the bushes next to your house?) is apparently too much to ask. Better?