Breast Wars II: Revenge of the Tits

Via Ripley in e-mail, and continuing the fascinating discussion below, see this story about uppity women, the best kind of women:

In protest of Victoria's Secret employees acting like boobs, a national protest plans to whip out theirs.

Rebecca Cook of Wisconsin wanted to breast-feed her child in the store's dressing room but when one wasn't available, prepared to do so on the store floor. An employee asked her to leave.

"Cook said the store manager told her the employee probably thought the 'sight of her breasts might offend a customer,' " reported the Citizen-Times.

A similar incident occurred in Massachusetts.

In retaliation, the two mothers have planned national nurse-ins at Victoria's Secrets across the country. The goal, they say, is not to defame the lingerie seller but bring about public awareness of the right to breast-feed in public.

My only complaint is that I thought of this first. Hopefully, NYMary will back me up here. Years ago, after the 6-Year-Old was born, we were strolling through the Carousel Mall in Syracuse, and we passed a Hooters. As the boy was crying, and I knew for what, it occurred to me that it would be fun to get about 30 nursing moms, each with a little squalling one, to go into there all at once, get some beer and wings, and then all whip out the milk-guns at once and nurse like mad. "We'll call it the 'That's What They're For!' protest!"

That this cracked up my wife completely is part of why I dig her.

Anyway. Now, call me a crazy, call me a pervert, I like lollipops in my mouth and butter up my ass, but this is not sexy to me:

It's just kind of weird. Plasticene. And I wonder if she eats what the other pigeons eat.

But the woman who'd wear this would be hot:

Because smart uppity women with a sense of humor are sexy as hell.

Comments

[NTodd]

I'd hit both of them.

[Shaw Kenawe]

When I had my daughter, many moons ago, I was the only one nursing in the maternity ward. The nurses hated me, because they had to bring my baby to the room to be fed, my family [mother, mother-in-law, sisters] thought I was out of my mind, and I had no Le Leche league to guide me--my only help was my dear friend Mary Kathleen, who had nursed her baby girl 5 months before and was a great inspiriation.

Another story. I was in one of those dreary chain restaurants a few years ago when a woman proceeded to nurse her infant. A waitress asked her to go to the ladies room to continue the feeding, since some of the patrons had complained about seeing her nurse at the table. The poor woman got up and went to the bathroom, as she was told. At a nearby table I noticed a youngish woman with a very, very brief halter on that just bearly covered her nipples. Her prodigious breasts were literally resting on the table. Apparently, no one complained about the tittie show going on at that particular table, but the woman who had her breast discreetly covered while she fed her infant was just too much for the patrons' sensibilities.

Shaw Kenawe

[Righteous Bubba]

This Richard Thompson mp3 addresses the Janet Jackson boob apocalypse.

[NYMary]

I can indeed confirm the theoretical Hooters protest. I'd have pushed it if our local LLL hadn't been taken over by homeschooling fundie whackjobs in Dugger-esque jumpers. No sense of humor, those people.

Shaw, I have never been asked to move, though I've been given dirty looks. For my response to this issue, see here:
http://powerpop.blogspot.com/2006/07/just-like-brian-wilson-did.html

[Stuart Eugene Thiel]

My daughters were born in Moscow, Idaho, in 1992 and in Ann Arbor in 1994. Both were breast-fed and in both places, Moscow and Ann Arbor, my wife tended to the baby, discreetly but without retreating, when and where needed. She was magnificently indifferent to passersby, but I can testify that the non-reaction was similar in both places. Nobody cared; this was 12-14 years ago, Neanderthal Idaho and post-modern Ann Arbor. The only reaction I ever noticed was, of course, in Ann Arbor: a woman, a walking Feiffer cartoon, nudged her companion and said, "Isn't it great to be in Ann Arbor where nobody fusses over breast-feeding?"

[A.Political]

however I must add that the milathon in Hooters was a protest against Hooters for what the establishment's business model, maybe Hooters would allow you to breastfeed in their establishment, where as the protest against Vics Secrets is in response not to their business model but to them not allowing breastfeeding, very different reasons.

[Foobar]

I remember my wife being asked to leave Alcott House in Concord MA during an enactment of Louisa May Alcott's life story. Her crime ? breast feeding my son quietly, discretely in the audience. I doubt Louisa would have approved.