City Bans Breast-Feeding Children Older Than 2 in Public

Life is different up there in Appalachia, Dave.

You're disgusting, Hamrick4.

Amen! And let's remember that all this indignant outrage over a mother breastfeeding in public is from the same country that spawned a chain restaurant that hawks chicken wings and bad food from waitresses with giant boobs. I'm willing to bet that some of the same folks that are so angry about publicly nursing Moms are the same ones who oogle the cheerleaders at football games, buy SI swimsuit issue (or playboy for that matter), and eat those chicken wings at a place named after breasts with gusto! Only in America...

you are ABSOLUTELY right.

Hmmm...yeah I guess I do need to grow up. Thanks so much for the insightful advice "doctor."

Good grief, Kapo; you truly DO have a lot of maturing to do. If you were to open your mind and consider the circumstances and what's deemed proper for the MAJORITY (the BIG picture), you just might learn something, and grow a bit as a person. Get past the myopic nonsense, already.

Well said Kapo.

Dr. Dreisdale, I am grown. I have two children who were nursed. I was very respectful of the people around me. I have also experienced the nauseating reality of going into a bathroom to breastfeed a child and having nowhere to sit except for a urine/ excrement stained toilet seat. We live in a country where we are told that nobody has a right to tell women what to do with their bodies on the extreme stuff but when it comes to feeding our children, that's where we are supposed to be bossed. Clearly, since I've lived it, I don't think I have a myopic view but I respect your right to disagree.

I didn't say you weren't "grown," Kapo; I said you have MATURING to do. You prove it each time you respond. It's not about how respectful or judicious YOU were; it's a SOCIETAL issue. And just because you had children and breast fed doesn't make you experienced or knowledgeable about the felicity of public breastfeeding. You simply are not comprehending the points of the discussion. I'm sorry, but I don't know how else to explain the issue to you. It's not about YOU or a few women who want to breastfeed in public -- it's about the point of view of society as a whole.

you tell her dr dreisdale u got it right

No Dr. Dreisdale. You aren't understanding the point I was making with my original post which spoke to those who think nursing women should take their kids into bathrooms to feed them or hide out somewhere like crack addicts trying to get a fix. Sophisticated verbiage does not make you mature and you clearly are more concerned with a few loud opinions than for the welfare of women and children. As for any further discussion; we will just have to agree to disagree.

Whatever you say, Kapo. Good luck to you.

I hope you were fibbing about being a mom kapo. You don't seem smart enough!

Absolutely!

Everyone, please listen to Dreisedale. After all, he has "dr" in his name -- this guy knows what he's talking about!

And, obviously, no truer words have ever been spoken: The minority must *always* do whatever it can to accommodate the majority. I mean, c'mon, folks, that's just common sense! And as we all know, the majority is *never* wrong. In fact, that may very well be the best, truest, most honorable rule of thumb I've ever heard. Heck, if I remember right, I'm almost positive it's one of the tenets the founding fathers liked to harp on.

Btw, gays -- knock off the kissing. As the dr has pointed out, we don't like it. Heck, we're not even sure we're comfortable with y'all holding hands. Gross. Do it in private.

Seriously, I've been dumbfounded by how many people have come right out and said that the argument against public breastfeeding isn't that it's intrinsically right or wrong, but that because the *majority* feels uncomfortable with it, it's therefore got to be stopped. I keep looking for the "j/k" or winky-face emoticon at the end of the posts. Or wondering if I'm in some weird Quantum Leap episode, and landed back in the 1950s.