Nurse-in at Hirshhorn on 2/12 from 10-12

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Anonymous wrote:I love nurse-ins!

I'm sure you do because so many nursing mothers love to show off. Some of you love to do this just to shock other people and that should come under Indecent Exposure. You can't go to a beach without a top even if you are nursing. I have two perfectly good breasts and, frankly, I am not interested in seeing your breast(s). At least have the common decency to use a cover.

THIS PICTURE IS AT THE HIRSHHORN:

http://hirshhorn.si.edu/visit/collection_object.asp?key=1&subkey=14791

GROW UP!!!!!!!!!!!!! How can you argue that this picture should be allowed to hang in a federally funded art museum while at the same time a woman should not be able to nurse her baby lest a smidgen of her flesh be exposed? Think about it!

This is art and when, or if, an artist paints your breasts and the painting is of museum quality, then, maybe, I will enjoy looking at your breasts. Until such time, I do not.

[Anonymous]

If I were still nursing I'd attend - and I'm a mother who was so paranoid I never nursed in public, ever!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can;t wait to hear all the comediana. You are all going to be the laughing stock of the late night shows.

as long as i can feed my baby in public without any asshole asking me to move you can laugh as much as you want.

Yes, in fact they like that. People responding with disgust at the sight of them with their infant at the breast is even better. Really, really weird. I would not want to be laughed at or looked at with disgust, certainly not when I was nursing my infant, but that's just me.

Did you click on the link above? There are paintings at the Hirshhorn of completely naked, very well endowed women, in sexual poses. DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT? OMG what are you tight assed prudes doing, exactly, at the Hirshhorn? Are you actually looking at the art? Honestly I'm sure it's doubtful that most of you naysayers are even really aware of what the Hirshhorn really is, but this whole convo could almost be an installation piece. I could just see it...woman quietly nursing baby, sour faced prude giving her the side eye looking on, while behind them both a man dressed like a clown screams and eats his own feces.

Why is it that the posters who think breasts are sexual are called uptight prudes while the ones who think that the public should simply yawn, look bored and turn the other way are not?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can;t wait to hear all the comediana. You are all going to be the laughing stock of the late night shows.

as long as i can feed my baby in public without any asshole asking me to move you can laugh as much as you want.

Yes, in fact they like that. People responding with disgust at the sight of them with their infant at the breast is even better. Really, really weird. I would not want to be laughed at or looked at with disgust, certainly not when I was nursing my infant, but that's just me.

I don't care about what others think of me. That's why I'm so happy with who I am and my family reflects it.

My children will grow to learn that they should not be ashamed of their bodies and that other people's opinion should not be an important factor when doing what's important to you.

Laugh out Loud. I don't care.

Breasts feeding has zilch to do with not being ashamed of our bodies. I think far too many of you are exhibitionists and love the furor you create. There is another problem, it isn't just BFing in public but the slurping sounds of the babies is offputting and there is also a smell in closed-in places. It it rather like a former smoker who doesn't understand that smoking stinks and BFing mothers don't realize that this also stinks until after you stop Bfing. It does stink so maybe you should be more careful about hygiene and that of your chld. Of course, on another thread many MBs think it is perfectly all right to change their baby's poopy diaper in a restaurant in full view of other diners. I don't to smell their poop and I don;t want to smell your breast milk. Why can't you pump and give your child a bottle?

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Breasts feeding has zilch to do with not being ashamed of our bodies. I think far too many of you are exhibitionists and love the furor you create. There is another problem, it isn't just BFing in public but the slurping sounds of the babies is offputting and there is also a smell in closed-in places. It it rather like a former smoker who doesn't understand that smoking stinks and BFing mothers don't realize that this also stinks until after you stop Bfing. It does stink so maybe you should be more careful about hygiene and that of your chld. Of course, on another thread many MBs think it is perfectly all right to change their baby's poopy diaper in a restaurant in full view of other diners. I don't to smell their poop and I don;t want to smell your breast milk. Why can't you pump and give your child a bottle?

Maybe you can explain why breastmilk smells when it comes directly from the breast but doesn't smell when it comes from the breast to the bottle?

And if you're close enough to hear my baby "slurping," you are invading my personal space.

[Anonymous]

When do u think the local news will pick up this story? Don't you think that would be effective...sharing the story with them so they can get it out there. Ps. This also happened to someone I know recently at a different museum in the district.

[Anonymous]

Wow you guys are really something else. Currin's painting is art, not breasts, though they are breasts, so you can tolerate it. So it's about aesthetics then, not morals or values? You're saying that if my breasts were painting worthy (and who says they aren't) then you could tolerate seeing them (nevermind that when I nursed my daughter no one saw my breasts)? This is just absurd! What you are basically saying is that you COULD tolerate looking at a painting of a baby being nursed (and there are many in the National Gallery after all) but you CANNOT look at a woman in the flesh nursing her baby. Good thing the artist could stand to see a woman's body, huh? I just never will get this, never. What do you risk by just minding your own business?

Breastfeeding is legal and women should not be removed from public buildings for breastfeeding their children.

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Breasts feeding has zilch to do with not being ashamed of our bodies. I think far too many of you are exhibitionists and love the furor you create. There is another problem, it isn't just BFing in public but the slurping sounds of the babies is offputting and there is also a smell in closed-in places. It it rather like a former smoker who doesn't understand that smoking stinks and BFing mothers don't realize that this also stinks until after you stop Bfing. It does stink so maybe you should be more careful about hygiene and that of your chld. Of course, on another thread many MBs think it is perfectly all right to change their baby's poopy diaper in a restaurant in full view of other diners. I don't to smell their poop and I don;t want to smell your breast milk. Why can't you pump and give your child a bottle?

This is just absolutely crazy. You may not realize it, but you truly sound crazy. Maybe you're kidding?

[Anonymous]

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Breasts feeding has zilch to do with not being ashamed of our bodies. I think far too many of you are exhibitionists and love the furor you create. There is another problem, it isn't just BFing in public but the slurping sounds of the babies is offputting and there is also a smell in closed-in places. It it rather like a former smoker who doesn't understand that smoking stinks and BFing mothers don't realize that this also stinks until after you stop Bfing. It does stink so maybe you should be more careful about hygiene and that of your chld. Of course, on another thread many MBs think it is perfectly all right to change their baby's poopy diaper in a restaurant in full view of other diners. I don't to smell their poop and I don;t want to smell your breast milk. Why can't you pump and give your child a bottle?

Maybe you can explain why breastmilk smells when it comes directly from the breast but doesn't smell when it comes from the breast to the bottle?

And if you're close enough to hear my baby "slurping," you are invading my personal space.

This!!!

Well put. Just don't look for petes sake and leave me and my baby alone.

[Anonymous]

And there is some SERIOUS irony at work here...Hirshhorn is a federal institution and multiple agencies belong to the Breastfeeding Promotion Consortium to "to exchange ideas on how the Federal government and private health organizations can collaboratively promote breastfeeding as the optimal form of infant nutrition."

It's just crazy...obviously women should be able to feed their babies outside the confines of their house and not be relegated to a bathroom. How can the govt. simultaneously promote breastfeeding and then put obstacles in the way for women to feed their babies?

[Anonymous]

hey, 19:19 why don't you just look away then?

easy peasy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Breasts feeding has zilch to do with not being ashamed of our bodies. I think far too many of you are exhibitionists and love the furor you create. There is another problem, it isn't just BFing in public but the slurping sounds of the babies is offputting and there is also a smell in closed-in places. It it rather like a former smoker who doesn't understand that smoking stinks and BFing mothers don't realize that this also stinks until after you stop Bfing. It does stink so maybe you should be more careful about hygiene and that of your chld. Of course, on another thread many MBs think it is perfectly all right to change their baby's poopy diaper in a restaurant in full view of other diners. I don't to smell their poop and I don;t want to smell your breast milk. Why can't you pump and give your child a bottle?

This is just absolutely crazy. You may not realize it, but you truly sound crazy. Maybe you're kidding?

Agree that this is crazy talk, and have to think this person is a troublemaker. But I will bite. . .perhaps I don't pump because I don't have a pump yet have to feed my child and refuse to stay at home. Maybe I think you should be more careful about YOUR hygiene, and don't particularily like your perfume. But as a member of civil society, I walk around you if I am bothered. You are free to wear, smell, and dress however you like. Not a crime.

Neither is breast feeding in public. You may not like it, but there it is. And as much as I hate this comeback, it might be appropriate here. If you are don't like it, leave. But you would be hard pressed to find another country that is more puritanical and uptight on this issue than North America.

I didn't have a dog in this fight until now. I don't breastfeed in public simply because I suck at it. I always feel that I am making a spectacle out of myself. And perhaps that is because of people like you.

[Anonymous]

Are you sure this is a Hirshhorn policy and not just the mistake of a single misinformed guard?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you sure this is a Hirshhorn policy and not just the mistake of a single misinformed guard?

Sadly, yes. Apparently this guard decided to actually enact the policy, where other museum staff either turn a blind eye or didn't know the policy existed. But if the media pick up on this story, I hope the guard doesn't become the scapecoat. He was, after all, just following policy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can;t wait to hear all the comediana. You are all going to be the laughing stock of the late night shows.

as long as i can feed my baby in public without any asshole asking me to move you can laugh as much as you want.

Yes, in fact they like that. People responding with disgust at the sight of them with their infant at the breast is even better. Really, really weird. I would not want to be laughed at or looked at with disgust, certainly not when I was nursing my infant, but that's just me.

Did you click on the link above? There are paintings at the Hirshhorn of completely naked, very well endowed women, in sexual poses. DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT? OMG what are you tight assed prudes doing, exactly, at the Hirshhorn? Are you actually looking at the art? Honestly I'm sure it's doubtful that most of you naysayers are even really aware of what the Hirshhorn really is, but this whole convo could almost be an installation piece. I could just see it...woman quietly nursing baby, sour faced prude giving her the side eye looking on, while behind them both a man dressed like a clown screams and eats his own feces.

THIS is funny. Really, I laughed out loud. So true too. The irony.