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Breast feeding - does it bother you?

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  • Registered Users Posts: 854 ✭✭✭JangoFett


    haha!!

    ok sexy dub girl (carlow) what do you really wanna say?


  • Registered Users Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Aw shucks, breasts being used for the function for which they are intended. Cry more.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,240 ✭✭✭hussey


    It doesn't bother me at all

    But apparently it is "not appropriate" to take pictures ... Phf feminists


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭eVeNtInE


    This post has been deleted.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 202 ✭✭Go-Go-Gadget


    SOME discression is required tbh, like sitting in a corner doing it instead of a window on grafton street.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    A child sucking on it's mothers breast is perfectly natural and some would say a sight to behold...

    A woman sucking on my cock is also perfectly natural and personally i'd rate it higher than the whole tit thing...

    So why can't a woman suck my cock in public?????

    For the record, i have no problem with public breast feeding, tis just a little unfair is all:)


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,859 ✭✭✭Duckjob


    Wait, what forum are we in?

    Ok, so... Giggidy Giggidy!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,119 ✭✭✭Wagon


    Tone I appear to be getting is...

    1) A bloke who looks or who's eye's happen to fall on the scene is a pervert.

    2) And if they don't like it in public because of the risk of being called perverts, then they're ignorant.

    :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,844 ✭✭✭Honey-ec


    *roffles at Darkman2*

    And not in a "You're so funny way"...


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,159 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    darkman2 wrote: »
    Breast feeding may be natural but this is not the stone age and in reality it is no longer required. The vast majority of kids today and in the last century have grown healthy without it. Technology is suppose to liberate us from such embarrasing inconvieniences yet some women seem to be going back to something that should be outdated and not even considered anymore.
    Eh nope. Study after study after study has shown breast milk is the best start for a child. Lower incidence of allergies, obesity in later life, stronger immune systems, lower risk of cot death, higher intelligence http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11988057?dopt=AbstractPlus and even better socialisation apparently http://adc.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/92/4/317 . Just because something is "primitive" does not make the modern alternatives better.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    I've never been able to breastfeed so it's not really an issue.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,432 ✭✭✭Steve_o


    Its a natural thing, if you dont like it, don't look...simple!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    JangoFett wrote: »
    So should children be allowed see adult genitals?

    Breasts aren't genitals.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,714 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    JangoFett wrote: »
    Ok, well, its a natural thing and some women are discreet but I get annoyed when women's attitude is "FCUK YOU I AM WOMAN I CAN DO THIS **** YOU YEAH THATS A BREAST THIS IS NATURAL **** YOU"

    Extreme Breastfeeding the new film by Quentin Tarantino

    Int. Café, Day

    Jules: I want you to go in that bra, and find my breast.
    Pumpkin: Which one is it?
    Jules: It's the one that says Bad Feminazi.
    JangoFett wrote: »
    So should children be allowed see adult genitals?

    I'm no expert but if you're feeding your children using your genitals I'm going to suggest you're doing it wrong.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,432 ✭✭✭Steve_o


    Earthhorse wrote: »
    I'm no expert but if you're feeding your children using your genitals I'm going to suggest you're doing it wrong.

    +1... Might also be a tiny bit illegal...:p:rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Of course not. The kid need to eat. It's not as if women stand up and rip off their top is it? You don't have to look in the direction if it bugs you.


  • Registered Users Posts: 767 ✭✭✭claiva


    A child sucking on it's mothers breast is perfectly natural and some would say a sight to behold...

    A woman sucking on my cock is also perfectly natural and personally i'd rate it higher than the whole tit thing...

    So why can't a woman suck my cock in public?????

    For the record, i have no problem with public breast feeding, tis just a little unfair is all:)

    come on seriously, this post deserves some acclaim !!!!
    Hilarious.......in a good way !!!
    Bravo dear boy, bravo.;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,900 ✭✭✭Quality


    Breast feeding doesnt bother me at all..

    Having breast fed in public, I have never felt embarrased or ashamed of feeding my child.. It is what god intended for my boobs to do...

    I try to be as discreet as I can with a shawl draped accross my shoulder. But if someone gets a flash of my tit and is offended by it, It is there problem not mine..

    It is a wonderful gift to be able to give your child..


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 10,661 ✭✭✭✭John Mason


    well, the next time any of you have a problem with it, maybe you should take your food or drink in to the bathroom and eat it there - while standing up. as this what is being suggested the suckling baby does

    whats the big deal, the only function of the breast is for feeding babies, they have no other function in the world.

    personally, i think it is just jealous on the men's part cos women can do something they cant

    grow up


  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,497 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    JangoFett wrote: »
    So should children be allowed see adult genitals?

    breasts are not genital, now go back to school and learn about the body. :)

    Its a natural thing in fairness and has ensured that human children have been fed for thousands of years, without this natural function its unlikely humans would have lived and we'd be all dead by now, don't believe me then look at how cows, dogs, horses, cats etc etc feed there young and what would happen if they didn't.

    Its only the "modern" age that has made it the "dirty" thing that people seem to think it is :rolleyes:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,106 ✭✭✭MoominPapa


    Anyone who has a problem with breast feeding in public is a ****ing idiot


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,119 ✭✭✭Wagon


    irishbird wrote: »
    personally, i think it is just jealous on the men's part cos women can do something they cant

    Yeah can't argue with that :o If I had my own set, Id be whipping them out and sticking them in kids mouths everywhere.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭Dinter


    Actually I don't think that many people who've posted said they've a problem with women breastfeeding in public.

    It seems to be women being completely indiscreet while doing it that is an issue.

    Was on the bus home a couple of weeks ago and there was a woman, sitting facing me in the disabled chair where the middle doors used to be breastfeeding away very obviously. It made me uncomfortable because where can you look? You don't want to seem like a perv.

    Unless a woman is comfortable with being stared at by people as she breastfeeds then she should try be a bit more discreet.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    hunnybunny wrote: »
    She thinks breasts are a sexual thing and having a baby in front of them doesn t change anything.:rolleyes:
    That's what I find laughable - tits on page 3, fine. Tits being used for their primary function - to feed and nourish an infant, what many other animals do - not fine.

    Breasts were used to feed babies LONG before their eroticisation and fetishisation. Your mate has got things the wrong way round. Maybe she should consider this: isn't it a shame the way something which produces the best food a baby can have and also helps a mother bond with her baby, has become so cheapened and tacky?

    Personally I'd prefer to see a woman on a bus breastfeeding her baby than an auld fella on a bus leering over a 19-year-old on page 3... yet somehow the latter has come to be considered more acceptable than the former.

    I don't know why some men are uncomfortable with it - they don't like the idea of the breast, which is the source of such titillation to them, being in a non sexual context? As in, the "fantasy" being removed? Or maybe they're simply afraid they'll get turned on by the sight of nipple?
    Once she's discreet, what's the problem?

    I can't help but think of certain tribal cultures where women are topless all the time.
    I don't think it's the exposure of the breasts per sé that causes such excitement (either in a positive or negative sense), more how we're conditioned socially and culturally to react to them.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,714 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    Dinter wrote: »
    Was on the bus home a couple of weeks ago and there was a woman, sitting facing me in the disabled chair where the middle doors used to be breastfeeding away very obviously. It made me uncomfortable because where can you look? You don't want to seem like a perv.

    She shoulda hidden in the little luggage compartment.
    Dudess wrote: »
    I can't help but think of certain tribal cultures where women are topless all the time.

    I can't help but think of them either.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Dinter wrote: »
    It seems to be women being completely indiscreet while doing it that is an issue.
    Yeah, my mate's sister whips 'em out at impromptu times - it could be Christmas with her dad and brother in the room and relations and friends visiting. That's really cringey tbh - maybe it's how I've been conditioned, but while I've no problem with it, I shudder at the idea of her dad, brother etc being mortified by it...


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,851 ✭✭✭Glowing


    I've no problem with it in theory but I nearly got sick when I was in Thailand and this western lady was breast feeding her 3 year old son!!!! He was old enough to walk over to her himself, and pull down her top infront of all the other diners!! The child was constantly hanging off her, and exposing her to everyone ...

    Something disturbing about that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭Dinter


    Earthhorse wrote: »
    She shoulda hidden in the little luggage compartment.

    No that'd be a little bit overboard.

    Still she could have been a bit more discreet than opening her blouse pretty much down to her navel then lifting her kid onto her shoulder after feeding to wind it without closing her shirt, all the time staring daggers at the two dozen people trapped desperately trying to be polite and look elsewhere.

    End of the day it is polite to look at something else. I don't think any woman would like being "oogled" by people when she's breastfeeding but it behoves her to try and help by being as discreet as possible.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,900 ✭✭✭Quality


    Its funny, I find my male friends would be asking more questions about it than my female friends... I offer them a taste (obviously expressed) and they have a horrified look face on their faces.. Although drinking milk that comes from a cows tit is perfectly ok:rolleyes:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Quality, I'd like a taste. I don't like using bottles though.....

    :pac:


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