breastfeeding
Stop Throwing ‘Skanks’ Under Your Pro-Breastfeeding Bus
During the last few breastfeeding-related stories I’ve written, I’ve noticed certain trends in the comments. Namely, someone inevitably emerges to complain that with the way those harlots are walking around with their business all hanging out, no one should care about mothers breastfeeding in public.
Listen up! What a woman chooses to do with her body is her business and precisely no one else’s, whether she’s choosing to nurse her baby with it or to dress it in a Brazilian leopard-print bikini. Your right to breastfeed in public is not a zero-sum game with another woman’s right to wear a mini-skirt. Instead of tearing her down for her scandalous assertion of her own bodily autonomy (you know, the thing that you are also trying to claim to despite nay-saying from obnoxious busybodies), here’s a wild idea: why not support her?
If more women were interested in sticking up for one another, rather than pushing each other down to try to climb to the top of the pile for scraps of social approval, maybe we’d all have more energy to fight some new battles. Instead, we’re stuck clawing at each other and fighting the same fights over and over again. Want to call yourself a feminist? Think you support other women? Then put your money where you mouth is – and where your boobs are. We’re all in this together.
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