What's your stance on public urination?

[grahamguitarman]

I've never worried about breastfeeding in public, its just a natural way to feed your kids. Just this morning I was getting on the bus, and saw a big sticker on the window saying that women were welcome to breastfeed on the bus. That's what I call progress

 

[Reaver]

i think both of these old ladies deserve to be peed on by a three-year-old boy.

Haha! Yes!!! You are correct sir!!! I freakin' love this guy!!

 

[Reaver]

Well, actually I do eat in the restroom. You caught me!

The great thing about eating in the can is that you already have a roll of napkins right next to you.

But I can do ya' one better. I've eaten nachos, drank a six pack and watched the Steelers monkeystomp the Seahawks in the '06 Super Bowl.
POW!!!

 

[Caged Maiden]

BTW I sew for a business... and often have clients in my home (where I am raising four little kids) for fittings. I think EVERY one of my regular customers has seen all my kids naked, because they suddenly forget how to get dressed, have pants malfunctions, or what-have-you, while I'm busy. It is what it is... they don't care, and most of my clients laugh and realize they're just being kids (and sometimes vying for my attention).

True enough, anyone who has kids ought to be reasonable about both children discarding their underwear or their requirement to be breastfed in public. I think it is the responsibility of all well-adjusted adults to not make a big deal... because the very worst thing we can do is to make them feel ashamed of themselves for something so harmless. Save that for truly disruptive behaviors.

It wasn't so long ago in our history that people were very connected to the natural world around and I don't know where the theory originated that we need to shield our children from nature came from, but children grew up knowing how animals (and I'm assuming humans) mated and how babies were fed. They also knew that certain animals were to be slaughtered while others were pets, and where food came from.

I guarantee you, no harm ever came from politely explaining the facts of the natural world to a child at their level of understanding... however, more than a little embarrassment has resulted from my well-informed children's observations....

 

[The Blue Lotus]

I've never worried about breastfeeding in public, its just a natural way to feed your kids. Just this morning I was getting on the bus, and saw a big sticker on the window saying that women were welcome to breastfeed on the bus. That's what I call progress

Dude, that is not "progress" If it was disallowed before they had it Bass Ackwards.
If anything I find it insulting that they would even have to advertize like that.

What breastfeeding mothers are/were somehow "Pariahs"??? That just baffels me.
No lady should ever feel ashamed of wanting the very best for her child.
Crack Heads ( and the like ) aside all ladies should at least try to nurse.

 

[Devor]

Dude, that is not "progress" If it was disallowed before they had it Bass Ackwards.
If anything I find it insulting that they would even have to advertize like that.

At the same time, the reality is that they do need to advertise it. The presumption by many breastfeeding women is that it's awkward at best, and an open statement welcoming the practice might help to alleviate that feeling.

Also, there's a good chance that a sign like that goes up after an incident where someone was heckled by another passenger for breastfeeding on the bus and is directed at those passengers as much as anybody else.

 

[Rikilamaro]

The great thing about eating in the can is that you already have a roll of napkins right next to you.

But I can do ya' one better. I've eaten nachos, drank a six pack and watched the Steelers monkeystomp the Seahawks in the '06 Super Bowl.
POW!!!

I'm not even going to ask why. Ok, yes I am.

Why did you do all that in the bathroom? I prefer my football on a large screen, and that just doesn't fit in my water closet.

 

[The Blue Lotus]

I'm not even going to ask why. Ok, yes I am.

Why did you do all that in the bathroom? I prefer my football on a large screen, and that just doesn't fit in my water closet.

I'm glad someone else asked that question!
I wanted to and was trying really hard not to...

 

[Rikilamaro]

I'm glad someone else asked that question!
I wanted to and was trying really hard not to...

I'm just sayin, the final four is this weekend and I could watch it from the toilet but then my legs would fall asleep and I'd be alone. Can't have that. Need to be able to jump up and down and scream at the television. Go KU!

 

[grahamguitarman]

Dude, that is not "progress" If it was disallowed before they had it Bass Ackwards.
If anything I find it insulting that they would even have to advertize like that.

What breastfeeding mothers are/were somehow "Pariahs"??? That just baffels me.
No lady should ever feel ashamed of wanting the very best for her child.
Crack Heads ( and the like ) aside all ladies should at least try to nurse.

Lol, put away the battleaxe, take a deep breath, and chill. It wasn't disallowed before, the right to breastfeed in public (including busses) was enshrined in the UK law back in 1975. The progress is that we are seeing more and more establishments and public spaces openly encouraging mothers to breastfeed in public. And the more public bodies come out and make a statement in support of breastfeeding, the sooner these silly taboos propagated by prudish old ladies die out.

As Devor pointed out these signs are as much to silence the hecklers as they are to reassure young mothers that breastfeeding is not against any rules. Its kinda hard for a member of the public to tell a young mother to stop breastfeeding if there is a sign there saying go ahead and do it

And that to me is good, no mother should be made to feel ashamed of legally breastfeeding, just because some old prune cannot bring herself into the 21st century.

 

[JBryden88]

The whole nudity issue is stupid anyway.
Guys can walk around topless but womenfolk can't.
Hell, pro-wrestling, the guys may as well be naked but for tiny little trunks, but if they did that with women it would be called porn!

But that's a whole other issue. If I had a time machine I'd go back in time and change it so that nudity was never about modesty. Clothing is good to keep warm and protect ones self from say scrapes and scratches, nothing more.

And regarding breastfeeding, or peeing in the bushes? People need to get off their high horses. Natural Acts.

 

[The Blue Lotus]

I'm just sayin, the final four is this weekend and I could watch it from the toilet but then my legs would fall asleep and I'd be alone. Can't have that. Need to be able to jump up and down and scream at the television. Go KU!

LOL. Yeah I prefer watching football on my 80 inch projector screen too.

@ Gar, oh thats right you are in the UK. See here in the US they have things all upside down. Ladies have been tossed out of eateries, stores, even parks for feeding.

And yeah I can see how that would shut up the uppity prudes who have a problem with it.

 

[grahamguitarman]

LOL. Yeah I prefer watching football on my 80 inch projector screen too.

@ Gar, oh thats right you are in the UK. See here in the US they have things all upside down. Ladies have been tossed out of eateries, stores, even parks for feeding.

And yeah I can see how that would shut up the uppity prudes who have a problem with it.

That is unbelievable, over here that would be classed as sex discrimination (that's not to say that some employers don't do it in private of course, even in this day and age sex discrimination still takes place in the workspace)

In Scotland there is even a fine of up to £2500 for preventing a woman from breastfeeding in public places. We don't have the fines here in England yet though.