Breaking: breastfeeding woman offended, twitter outraged

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FoxEye said:
FF will get away with it because he is in agreement with the mods, and he's a "Man of Honour". Which means that his status is way above mine, and he can use whatever off-topic personal attack he likes toward me with complete impunity.
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Indeed, FreeFaller once called my mom fat and told me he took her to the "Bone-zone" whatever that means. He was never warned for said insults.
 
Freefaller said:
It wasn't. It was a plea to try to understand why you think something that the majority of mature adults with a modicum of life experience see no issue with something you have less experience of. You have mentioned this many times and so I believe it to be relevant to the debate. You don't have the life experience, relationship experience or societal experience to really make a fair judgement. Which is why I completely disagree and perhaps unfairly disregard your opinion on this matter.

Those facts that you yourself have admitted publicly will necessarily have an impact on your points and opinions. You can't be so insecure to the point to what I have said could be in anyway misconstrued as an attack. Surely?

If you took it that way as offensive then I apologise, but I think those facts do highlight and give an insight to your close minded views.

Me being a different rank on the forum is irrelevant. I've had posts deleted for less.
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Nice. You even managed to get some personal attacks into a reply denying you were using personal attacks :p I esp like "closed minded".

Anything else you'd like to get in? We're close to personal attack Bingo here!

Dressing up personal attacks as "insights" really isn't fooling anyone. This is the trouble with many today. Don't like something that's being said? Either shut down the debate, or try to exclude the opposing parties from it. Much better to have an echo chamber. Personal attacks being a great way to discredit people, effectively excluding them from any debate.

I guess I shouldn't have the audacity to disagree with you, esp someone as mature, experienced, and open-minded as yourself. No wonder you feel comfortable ignoring others viewpoints. They are, after all, just wrong to disagree with you! Not worthy of inclusion.
 
I don't care if you disagree with me. We'll just have to agree to disagree. And use examples as this to be the exception that proves the rule.

If you really think this is a personal attack then it doesn't surprise me rereading some of your posts now..

Anyway. You're entitled your views irrespective of whether I agree with them. And I'll never stop you from trying to have them. Just don't expect me to not challenge if I disagree.
 
I know nothing about you Foxeye.

If Freefaller remembers that you have said in other threads that you live with your mother, have no friends, are not in a relationship etc etc then that's not an attack and is entirely relevant to life experience.

I'm at an age where a lot of my friends have babies and young children so I am often around breastfeeding mothers. These are my close friends.

Doesn't bother me a jot.
 
How does any of that mean that I'm wrong for thinking women* should consider the feelings of others, who may not want to see breast feeding on a table in McDonalds?

*All of us really, it works both ways. Only some people think their feelings are the only thing that matters.

You could use this argument to say that any opinion of mine is invalid, due to "not enough life experience". Great. Because the only experience in life that makes you a real boy is to have dropped out some sprogs, eh? Or have been with 25.5 women.

Great. I'll not bother to argue with any of you supermensch in future. Condescending *****.
 
I was using an example to highlight some of the myopic view points. That's all. Now YOU are being aggressive.

You didn't give a cogent point to this debate. And I was trying to understand why. Perhaps it was unfairly undermining you but you just didn't back up your points with anything other than incongruous facts or opinions.
 
What facts do you want, exactly? It's obvious from this thread alone that some people don't want to look at women breast feeding in the middle of a restaurant.

Has there been a peer-reviewed journal linking observation of breast feeding to cancer? Nope. Is it obvious that it makes some people uncomfortable/queasy, etc? Sure.

Is common sense not allowed until it hits New Scientist, or something?
 
VincentHanna said:
Why should she have to change what she lawfully does, so it doesn't offend others?

If someone is breastfeeding in public just ignore them and don't look?
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Even in the middle of a restaurant? When there is a mother and baby room behind her?

Do breastfeeding women have to show no consideration for anyone but themselves?
 
VincentHanna said:
Why should she have to change what she lawfully does, so it doesn't offend others?

If someone is breastfeeding in public just ignore them and don't look?
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So we are going to start policing what people can and cannot look at in public?
 
By that reasoning should we also ban any clothing choices that others may not like. I don't want to see a wrinkly old man in budgie smugglers but there's nothing illegal about it and if that's how he wishes to dress crack on and I'll just stop eyeing up his man bulge.
 
Well. You've got it in your head that breastfeeding in public is bad and don't understand why it shouldn't be a big problem. So that's fine. That's just how you feel. :)
 
VincentHanna said:
Why should she have to change what she lawfully does, so it doesn't offend others?

If someone is breastfeeding in public just ignore them and don't look?
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Well if we want to refer to the law, I guess the museum are completely within their rights to ask someone to leave / not do something. Right to refuse service and all that jazz.

So why are they being attacked for it?
 
tom_e said:
By that reasoning should we also ban any clothing choices that others may not like. I don't want to see a wrinkly old man in budgie smugglers but there's nothing illegal about it and if that's how he wishes to dress crack on and I'll just stop eyeing up his man bulge.
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Common sense and decency means you *don't* see old men in mankinis parading around. Except certain parts of London.
 
CREATIVE!11 said:
Well if we want to refer to the law, I guess the museum are completely within their rights to ask someone to leave / not do something. Right to refuse service and all that jazz.

So why are they being attacked for it?
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Not in this case, they cannot refuse service or ask someone to leave for breastfeeding.

FoxEye said:
Common sense and decency means you *don't* see old men in mankinis parading around. Except certain parts of London.
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I see them in my gym all the time...They've lived their life they're happy in their skin and they don't give a **** what others think of their fashion choice. Good on them but I'm not going to cry about it.
 
VincentHanna said:
Essentially, no.

It's their lawful right.
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So they can literally, with no exaggeration, flop them both out with no attempted covering, and it's everyone else's problem, even if it puts them off dinner.

And you'd fight for their right to behave in this manner, even if they were being blatantly provocative. Because, the law.
 
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