WTF?

[muninnhuginn]

So I wanders off this afternoon to deal with things parental and come back to find my screen full of beautiful pictures of contented babies doing what comes naturally. Wow.

And the reason? Double wow.

And nope, I cannot see how there is anything obscene about images of breastfeeding... at all. Nipples 'n' all. But I can't find one of me and Looby Loo "at it" so the new icon's courtesy of cangetmad to whom many thanks. It's a gorgeous image.

I wasn't breastfed. I suspect I may have had better health if I had been and I think it was a matter of my mother's health post delivery that meant she didn't. My younger brother was. I did breastfeed. For just over twelve months. It was bliss. I'm certain it helped support Looby Loo's health and growth. It changed my attitude to my body and my internal view of myself--entirely for the better. It's not something to be hidden from view--except if an individual woman is happier to be private whilst feeding her child: her baby, her breast, her choice--well not unless we ban all images of anyone at all eating in public.

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[yonmei.livejournal.com]

I fool a *lot* of people online, and I've already found holes in your assumptions about me once today.

So, all the offensive comments you've been making about how awful it is to see women breastfeeding and how it's their responsibility to go into the closet so that people like you won't be offended... all of that is just you fooling people online?

Sorry I wasted time talking to you, then: people who strike appalling attitudes for the sake of causing dissent just for the sake of "fooling people online" just annoy me.

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[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

people who strike appalling attitudes for the sake of causing dissent just for the sake of "fooling people online" just annoy me

No, I'm not a troll. I'm not playing devil's advocate: I'm arguing for what I believe. And insofar as that constitutes deliberately making comments which offend you personally, then yes, I am doing it: because I happen to be in an excellent position to present you with something you obviously haven't considered before, namely the fact that there are people out there who disagree with you completely and are also rational, well-adjusted, intelligent adults as opposed to bigoted morons. The fact that it's winding you up - well, I can't deny I find that funny, but not out of sadism: it demonstrates that you really can't cope with the existence of well-thought-out opinions that oppose yours, and the humour lies in the fact that in spite of that you also appear to be wanting to go about persuading other people you're right. You just can't do that simply by informing them they're wrong; if you want to get people who totally disagree with you to take up your beliefs, first you have to be able to stretch your mind round their beliefs enough to find a pathway between the two.

And that really is the last I'm saying in this argument: there are other things I should be doing.

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[yonmei.livejournal.com]

No, I'm not a troll. I'm not playing devil's advocate: I'm arguing for
what I believe.

And you believe that people shouldn't be allowed to offend your sensibilities by breastfeeding where you can see them because you have a phobia about it.

Further, you believe you should be allowed to be as offensive as you like in defense of that belief.

And finally, you get very defensive and twitchy and pissy when you are offended.

It all adds up to a really whopping, toddler-sized sense of entitlement. Suggest you lose it.