{"id":170364,"date":"2016-02-19T17:01:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T22:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/?p=170364"},"modified":"2016-02-19T17:20:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T22:20:35","slug":"woman-shamed-breastfeeding-gym-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/woman-shamed-breastfeeding-gym-video\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s 2016 and Somehow Women Are Still Being Shamed for Breastfeeding at the Gym"},"content":{"rendered":"

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According to Cosmopolitan<\/em><\/a>, Ohio mom Aidan Johnson says she was nursing her 8-month-old baby at a gym when she was “shamed” for nursing in public by a gym employee. According to the woman’s post, she wasn’t breastfeeding on the machines or anything, just sitting\u00a0in an out-of-the-way cafe area at her gym when the gym’s HR manager came over and asked if she’d like to move.<\/p>\n

“‘[The HR person] began saying that the gym supports breastfeeding and she \u201dunderstands\u201d because she breastfed. They \u201djust wanted to make sure I was accommodated\u201d so I could go up to the kids area which is private or I could go into another room which wasn\u2019t occupied until the afternoon,” Johnson wrote on Facebook<\/a>. “Over and over she kept saying how much she \u201dunderstood\u201d and how they just wanted to \u201daccommodate me\u201d. I said \u201dno thanks, I\u2019m fine and clearly my sleeping son is too\u201d.<\/p>\n

Johnson seems to have felt that the woman was using the guise of “accommodating” her to get her to cover up or move out of the cafe area, which is annoying, but she says she would just have left it alone after that, but that her husband had a very frustrating conversation with the gym’s male manager about the incident.<\/p>\n

According to Johnson’s Facebook post, the gym manager admitted that he’d sent the HR woman over in an attempt to get Johnson to cover up or move out of the way. When her husband pointed out that Ohio law says Johnson doesn’t have to do either, the manager reportedly accused her of acting “like a victim.”<\/p>\n

“He said that if I wasn\u2019t the type to meet them halfway, maybe we should find another gym. He repeated multiple times that I was just acting like a victim,” Johnson said.<\/p>\n

It’s getting a bit ridiculous. How many of these stories need to run before gym managers and restaurant managers and other people realize that public breastfeeding is legal and unremarkable, and that it would be a lot more disruptive to harass a nursing woman than to just ignore her and let her feed her baby in peace.<\/p>\n

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