Between blotch and blok

I was talking to a friend of mine who's several months pregnant last night, who told me that a number of other mothers she knows have had people come up to them while breastfeeding in public and tell them to their faces that they think it's disgusting. Does that sound like confirmation that I'm a lone, abnormal phobic to you?

No: it sounds like you have the kind of social support that - for example - homophobes get. I have had people come up to me in public and tell me to my face that they think my sexual orientation is disgusting. They're confident that their phobia about queerness is justifiable and righteous, and that the appropriate solution to their phobia is not for them to suppress it politely but for me to go into the closet. I disagree, though evidently you would feel differently.