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Boobs, tits, melons, coconuts, jugs, or breasts. Whatever you want to
call them, breasts serve one purpose and one purpose only; to provide
milk for a pregnant woman in order for her to feed her child. When
you put it like that, it’s kind of gross to think about the fact that so
many teenage boys and even adult males find females breasts, for a
lack of a better word, absolutely awesome. However there still
remains to be one exception to this notion that ‘boobs are sick’…
when a mother is breastfeeding her child in public, which in fact is
the only purpose a female’s breasts serve, and legitimately the sole
reason she has them.
I think I can speak for all of us when I say we have been in the
following scenario… you’re sitting on an aeroplane, ecstatic to reach
your warm sunny destination of Queensland or wherever you may
be headed, when all of the sudden your excitement is drawn to an
abrupt halt… You can hear a noise screeching over the top of your
free, in-flight headphones... so you pause the newly released movie
you’ve so hastily selected to watch for the flight and put down your
complimentary peanuts… and then it hits you... You are seated
directly in front of what appears to be a baby thirty seconds out of
the womb, screaming and crying uncontrollably for what you know
can only be hours and hours on end.
Now if you think beyond the anger and frustration you are
currently feeling and think for a moment… hmm, this baby could be
either hungry, or scared… both issues which could be aided if not
solved by its mother’s breast-milk… so now you’re all sitting there
thinking ‘eughhhhh can its mum just feed the stupid thing!’ So she
does, and the baby halts its ghastly cries… but one minute later… the
woman and the baby are kicked off the plane for indecent exposure.
Sound ridiculous? It’s true. In 2006, Emily Gillette was thrown off
an aeroplane after attempting to halt the distressed cries of her
infant, all for attempting to create peace for the others on the flight.
So, what are the reasons people find breastfeeding in public so
outrageous and obscene? Because yes, it can be seen as confronting,
however I pose to you a situation. Imagine you are out eating a
delicious meal at a delicious restaurant, when all of the sudden you
see a child being breastfed across the room. Now wait for a moment
before you just automatically think ‘
A
hhh
B
oob
!
’ and think about
the situation logically, you are at restaurant because you are eating,
which is what you need to do to stay alive. And despite what you may
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Karla Elkington
Alan Patterson
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