Breastfeeding in restaurants

[Zefan]

there is nothing wrong with public breast feeding

To you! There may well be something wrong with it to some people. I'm not sure what is hard to understand about that.

are you being inconsiderate by not bowing towards his personal ideas of what is proper conduct within that establishment by removing your hat?

Of course it's inconsiderate. Imagine the alternative. To simply refuse would be to know you are upsetting/making him uncomfortable and to make a conscious decision that you do not care about that. I'm not sure how that is anything but inconsiderate. If there is some major inconvenience to taking off the hat then fair enough, but if it isn't any skin off your nose then surely it is the decent thing to do to simply consider his feelings and respect his request.

 

[Glaucus]

I find your refusal to ever proof read anything you type before hitting submit, often resulting in completely undecipherable posts, more offensive than breastfeeding in public

Or could wait 1 second as it was edited instantly.

 

[Spook187]

Not a problem whatsoever and those that think it is a problem really need to look in the mirror and looks at themselves.

 

[spoffle]

I was being daft, chill out.

Maybe you were, sadly I have experienced people calling turbans "hats".

 

[adolf hamster]

Its a resteraunt, people go to restaraunts to eat, babies best food is breastmilk, I fail to see the issue.

being offended doesnt magically entitle people to something, it just means theyre offended

 

[Narj]

Makes me laugh how there's such a massive 'thing' these days where people have a right to be offended and kick up a fuss, but now it's gone completely the other way because this woman burst into tears (honest) and presumably sold her story to the media.

 

[SkodaMart]

Having a crap is natural.

I'm not in the slightest bit ashamed about it either.

Time and a place, he's right.

 

[Glaucus]

To you! There may well be something wrong with it to some people. I'm not sure what is hard to understand about that.

Of course it's inconsiderate. Imagine the alternative. To simply refuse would be to know you are upsetting/making him uncomfortable and to make a conscious decision that you do not care about that. I'm not sure how that is anything but inconsiderate. If there is some major inconvenience to taking off the hat then fair enough, but if it isn't any skin off your nose then surely it is the decent thing to do to simply consider his feelings and respect his request.

There is nothing wrong with it, if people think there is they are the one with the issue, and no there's nothing wrong with refusing to do something about it. Why reinforce their idiotic choice of being offended.
Should we apply that to any other thing, how about racism, some ones offended better kick them out. Rather than telling the person in the wrong to shut up.

 

[spoffle]

To you! There may well be something wrong with it to some people. I'm not sure what is hard to understand about that.

Of course it's inconsiderate. Imagine the alternative. To simply refuse would be to know you are upsetting/making him uncomfortable and to make a conscious decision that you do not care about that. I'm not sure how that is anything but inconsiderate. If there is some major inconvenience to taking off the hat then fair enough, but if it isn't any skin off your nose then surely it is the decent thing to do to simply consider his feelings and respect his request.

The problem is that this is a slippery slope if you continually appease the demands of people on the basis of consideration, especially unreasonable ones, just because they claim it offends their delicate feelings.

 

[spoffle]

Having a **** is natural.

I'm not in the slightest bit ashamed about it either.

Time and a place, he's right.

Eating meat is natural, but we know how that went the last time you tried to argue against it. Derp.

 

[Malevolence]

Not a restaurant, but last Summer I was sat in the park feeding the ducks and geese when a woman sat on the opposite bench decided it was time for baby to have his feed. She then proceeded to pull the front of her dress down and just flopped them both out and sat there like that until the baby had drank it's fill or fallen asleep or whatever it is babies do after a mouthful of Mummy.

Now I'm one those who doesn't particularity care if a woman want to flop them out in public and feed her baby, but I do think that doing it whilst sat in a restaurant where people are trying to eat is just trying to rock to the boat in order to fit an agenda.

 

[Zefan]

especially unreasonable ones

My point refers only to reasonable requests, I have said it like three times now...

There is nothing wrong with it, if people think there is they are the one with the issue, and no there's nothing wrong with refusing to do something about it. Why reinforce their idiotic choice of being offended.
Should we apply that to any other thing, how about racism, some ones offended better kick them out. Rather than telling the person in the wrong to shut up.

This is actually hilarious. You have somehow managed to take my point and spin it in to a black and white scenario with aggressive undertones - specifically what I have been opposing!

 

[SkodaMart]

I think you'll find it's not, breathing is probably more natural for example as it's carried out by more people. Yea, I'm being enormously pedantic but when you claim something is THE MOST NATURAL THING ever, I think we are already in the realms of pedantry

I think his point is that you can't really claim anything is the MOST natural thing in the world. How would you even measure such a claim?

Incidentally I don't care either way, I'm just here for the pedantry.

I'm with Fox on this.

Having a crap is the most thing natural, yet I refrain from this activity when out for a meal (at least I will retire to the WC).

Women, babies are beautiful, but ffs have a bit of privacy.

 

[dowie]

Of course it's inconsiderate. Imagine the alternative. To simply refuse would be to know you are upsetting/making him uncomfortable and to make a conscious decision that you do not care about that. I'm not sure how that is anything but inconsiderate. If there is some major inconvenience to taking off the hat then fair enough, but if it isn't any skin off your nose then surely it is the decent thing to do to simply consider his feelings and respect his request.

why do the feelings of the person who chooses to cast their own personal views on appropriateness on others trump the personal choices of an individual to do something which doesn't actually directly affect anyone? You've taken the position that if someone objects to a random thing then someone else is inconsiderate by not doing something about it - the question is where do you draw the line?

why should you care about it - perhaps the hat wearer is going bald, perhaps he just really likes the hat... it shouldn't matter - what business is it of a third party to object?*

What if I don't like the colour green and object to your green t-shirt which is distracting me in the restaurant - is it inconsiderate for you to not oblige my irrational dislike by covering it with napkins? (In fact being distracted by something is probably a more valid reason for an objection than simply a view that it is proper to say not wear hats indoors - despite both being trivial)

*(save for the owner/management of the establishment of course)

 

[Chuk_Chuk]

To all those saying that they are okay with a women breastfeeding in public. What if you were seated in a seat that forced/made you watch as she was breastfeeding would you still be okay with it?

 

[spoffle]

Not a restaurant, but last Summer I was sat in the park feeding the ducks and geese when a woman sat on the opposite bench decided it was time for baby to have his feed. She then proceeded to pull the front of her dress down and just flopped them both out and sat there like that until the baby had drank it's fill or fallen asleep or whatever it is babies do after a mouthful of Mummy.

Now I'm one those who doesn't particularity care if a woman want to flop them out in public and feed her baby, but I do think that doing it whilst sat in a restaurant where people are trying to eat is just trying to rock to the boat in order to fit an agenda.

This woman you saw in the park sounds like she doesn't understand discrete, or that she was being purposefully obnoxious about it.

There's a huge difference between that, and the image of the woman posted in this thread. That's like the equivalent of dropping your pants to your ankles to go for a wee.

 

[spoffle]

My point refers only to reasonable requests, I have said it like three times now...

But "take your hat off, I don't like it when people wear hats indoors" isn't really a reasonable request.

 

[SkodaMart]

Eating meat is natural, but we know how that went the last time you tried to argue against it. Derp.

Or you could argue we eat meat as it is the most nutrient rich source of food that guarantees survival.

Your choice, my good, good friend, soul mate, chap amongst chaps and genuinely good fellow.

 

[Danthus]

To all those saying that they are okay with a women breastfeeding in public. What if you were seated in a seat that forced/made you watch as she was breastfeeding would you still be okay with it?

She is feeding her baby, it really isn't a terrible thing to view.

 

[Tom_ed1987]

If I was in a restaurant and a woman sitting next to me started openly breastfeeding, I'd probably get a bit put off my food. I really don't understand the argument of it being 'natural' therefore it becoming defacto to do anywhere and everywhere without any other consideration.