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  1. “I’m on the fence on this. I’ve seen one woman literally just whip it out and do it and it made me cringe.”

    THL, the woman I saw on the train was of the first variety you described. Definitely of the “spectacle” variety. She clearly wanted everyone on the train to know she was breast feeding. (Oh, and my last post was courtesy of Joan Rivers circa 1980.)

  2. “I mean the whole reason we have these boob things is to feed babies in the first place right? The fact that they may be used for amusement purposes as well is sort of a bonus.”

    Yes, agreed. I don’t really understand why this is such a contentious issue.

  3. I’m more interested in CGar’s guy in the wild things outfit. Was he a visual, auditory and olfactory experience? Whenever I’ve taken the subway nothing exciting (thank G-d!) happened.

  4. “Subway Etiquette Question: Is it appropriate for a woman to breast feed her kid on the train? Seriously. Just wondering.”

    I’m on the fence on this. I’ve seen one woman literally just whip it out and do it and it made me cringe. I’ve also seen another with a blanket thrown over herself and the baby and you’d have never been the wiser that I thought was fine.

    In general I’m fine with women breast feeding in public so long as they’re not deliberately trying to make it into some sort of political statement spectacle (like the first woman I described). I mean the whole reason we have these boob things is to feed babies in the first place right? The fact that they may be used for amusement purposes as well is sort of a bonus. It’s a natural thing and it’s unfortunate if it’s either done in a manner or just makes people squeemish in general.

    Me personally, they have this invention called a breast pump and you can then take that milk and put the it in these handy containers called bottles so I’m going to try to go that route when in public.

  5. CGar- you too? I’m not so worried my id is stolen as I am furious that a supposedly major corporation holding sensitive personal data was so abysmally stupid as to be using an unencrypted, portable hard drive to hold the data.

  6. quote:
    Subway Etiquette Question: Is it appropriate for a woman to breast feed her kid on the train? Seriously. Just wondering.

    only if it’s equally as okay for me to rub one out on the train if i feel like it. biological needs are biological needs.

    *rob*

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