I guess in accepting that what may not embarrass one person ( whatever that is )  but may embarras another ...I'm in the minority here .....but when its deemed that anyone who feels like that about breastfeeding in public must be narrow minded , a prude, or worse still lewd , then I think that it is time for me to leave the thread to the moral majority . 

I guess in accepting that what may not embarrass one person ( whatever that is )  but may embarras another ...I'm in the minority here .....but when its deemed that anyone who feels like that about breastfeeding in public must be narrow minded , a prude, or worse still lewd , then I think that it is time for me to leave the thread to the moral majority . 

I'm sure your husband is a lovely chap and is just a bit coy about seeing some breast. If he'd grown up in a culture which saw it as completely normal and natural and not something private and personal, to be hidden away, he'd be totally fine with it, whether he'd had his own kids or not.

It's not the quietly embarrassed ones we have a problem with, it is the narrow minded prudes who want it hidden away and complain to the woman, or the management, about it, and it is the ones who feel free to make lewd comments, as if they think the woman should remember that her breasts are merely sexual objects.

I'm sure your husband is a lovely chap and is just a bit coy about seeing some breast. If he'd grown up in a culture which saw it as completely normal and natural and not something private and personal, to be hidden away, he'd be totally fine with it, whether he'd had his own kids or not.

It's not the quietly embarrassed ones we have a problem with, it is the narrow minded prudes who want it hidden away and complain to the woman, or the management, about it, and it is the ones who feel free to make lewd comments, as if they think the woman should remember that her breasts are merely sexual objects.

I guess in accepting that what may not embarrass one person ( whatever that is )  but may embarras another ...I'm in the minority here .....but when its deemed that anyone who feels like that about breastfeeding in public must be narrow minded , a prude, or worse still lewd , then I think that it is time for me to leave the thread to the moral majority . 

I  thought it was now  illegal to "ban" breastfeeding in public etc?is it not?

It is illegal to ask the mother and baby to leave, to ask the woman to stop feeding and it is illegal to refuse to serve you.

It is not, apparently, illegal to make you feel like shite and humiliate you with a massive napkin! 

I guess in accepting that what may not embarrass one person ( whatever that is )  but may embarras another ...I'm in the minority here .....but when its deemed that anyone who feels like that about breastfeeding in public must be narrow minded , a prude, or worse still lewd , then I think that it is time for me to leave the thread to the moral majority . 

I'm sure your husband is a lovely chap and is just a bit coy about seeing some breast. If he'd grown up in a culture which saw it as completely normal and natural and not something private and personal, to be hidden away, he'd be totally fine with it, whether he'd had his own kids or not.

It's not the quietly embarrassed ones we have a problem with, it is the narrow minded prudes who want it hidden away and complain to the woman, or the management, about it, and it is the ones who feel free to make lewd comments, as if they think the woman should remember that her breasts are merely sexual objects.

Quite how you've managed to twist this with the conclusion and the back handed insult that everyone who is posting in here in support of challenging people's attitudes towards breast feeding in public, are implying the above and are the moral majority I have absolutely no idea!

      (I think the fact that I'm supporting 'slapper/child molester' in Strictly 

I never knew that!

To be fair to Baz I am pretty sure that is more or less what I was implying in my posts, for want of any other explanation that I can work out about why they are uncomfortable.. but more so the prude bit, and the narrow minded parts for the extremest portion that go on to complain

It is illegal to ask the mother and baby to leave, to ask the woman to stop feeding and it is illegal to refuse to serve you.

It is not, apparently, illegal to make you feel like shite and humiliate you with a massive napkin! 

If the bloody perve brigade didn't react like it was a sexual act none of this would be a problem.  

I'm sure I've told this before, but I once knew a woman who said that she was relieved to have had a baby boy as it would have been weird to breastfeed a baby girl.  

There are some seriously twisted attitudes involved in all this. 

What?!

Can I just say that Baz you could help a little bit as your mentioned your hubby would find it uncomfortable by teaching him to stick it out so he gets to the point he doesn't even notice anymore. .make him work thru his feelings of uncomfortablness.. Not having a dig here but it's up to us to educate people and what better place to start than at home

It is illegal to ask the mother and baby to leave, to ask the woman to stop feeding and it is illegal to refuse to serve you.

It is not, apparently, illegal to make you feel like shite and humiliate you with a massive napkin! 

TBF if I was 73 and someone was going to try and stick their opinion down my throat when I really didn't want it, I'd be quite annoyed and rightly so.

Why did she beam with the stupid napkin over her poor baby?

I'm sure I've told this before, but I once knew a woman who said that she was relieved to have had a baby boy as it would have been weird to breastfeed a baby girl.  

There are some seriously twisted attitudes involved in all this. 

Why shouldn't she?

Maybe, after she'd got over the shock and humiliation, she was smiling at the absurdity of the massive napkin situation.

I don't think he needs 'to be weaned' off anything, how patronising. People have their opinions and that's as it should be. Still, babies should be fed anywhere and, if I understood Baz' post, her husband didn't object to that.

She doesn't look shocked and humiliated to me. I'd have been out there and told the nearest paper about it, we are talking about Claridges after all, a place which should accommodated all patrons as other hostelries and should hang it's head in shame.

She doesn't look shocked and humiliated to me. I'd have been out there and told the nearest paper about it, we are talking about Claridges after all, a place which should accommodated all patrons as other hostelries and should hang it's head in shame.

She doesn't look shocked and humiliated to me. I'd have been out there and told the nearest paper about it, we are talking about Claridges after all, a place which should accommodated all patrons as other hostelries and should hang it's head in shame.

do you know what is funny looking at both those photo's.. the second one would make me look and stare and wonder why she had a napkin draped across her cos it looks so odd. . and the first one I doubt I'd even notice her feeding

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Based on their breastfeeding stance i think i will take my custom elsewhere this Christmas!

Well, I'm sorry that she forgot to get a picture during the time she felt shocked and humiliated and had burst into tears.

She doesn't appear to have followed the correct procedures, in your opinion, but Claridges have certainly made the papers, as well as the rest of the media, and have still not apologised.

Exactly.

It just looks ridiculous! 

Why did she let them do it?

Why did she let the waiter rush over and give her the napkin? 

That's my question.