Breastfeeding In Public
This afternoon I happened to catch part of Jeremy Vine’s show on Radio 2, wherein he and his resident GP Sarah Jarvis were discussing the proposed changes to the law to allow women the legal right to breastfeed in public. I am so annoyed.
I find it very poor that the only airtime this subject gets is to bring all those reactionary Mail readers out of the woodwork, to pronounce on how revolting they find it to have to eat in a restaurant next to a woman who is breastfeeding her baby. This is not new and it is not news. I accept that such people have the right to their opinion, but it seems irresponsible of JV to broadcast that opinion, apparently with the support of a doctor who is normally an advocate of women’s issues.
To be fair to Sarah Jarvis, she was clearly in favour of breastfeeding in general, but what a wimp! Her response to the outcry was that it might be better if women did express and bottlefeed, so that those poor small-minded cretins who are offended by the female breast (in this context) might be spared the sight of a child being fed in a perfectly natural way. There are so many reasons why this is wrong, and here are three of them:
Karen · June 25, 2007 · Comments (2) · boob
