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David In Indy:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on April 22, 2009, 10:52:09 pm --- ???
She's feeding her baby. Why is that 'no one else's business' and an 'intimate' thing?
So if you're eating or you're feeding your child a hamburger or bowl of cereal, are you going to go somewhere private since it's no one else's business when someone else is eating?
Looks like a plain-jane everyday thing to me. And they do it many times per day.
Perhaps if society let them do it whenever their child needed to be fed, there would be less of these rosy ideas of 'intimate moments' for something as dirt-common as feeding a hungry child.
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Well I can't speak for the others but the reason it feels awkward to me is because a woman's breasts are a very personal and private thing. Society teaches us this. And I always feel awkward looking in a general direction where a woman's breasts are exposed, or may be exposed. So I avert my eyes. If I am looking in her general direction she may think I am staring at her. And if she thought I was, how would she react? What would she think? So I do everything in my power to give her and the baby their privacy.
But that's just me.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on April 22, 2009, 10:52:09 pm --- ???
She's feeding her baby. Why is that 'no one else's business' and an 'intimate' thing?
So if you're eating or you're feeding your child a hamburger or bowl of cereal, are you going to go somewhere private since it's no one else's business when someone else is eating?
Looks like a plain-jane everyday thing to me. And they do it many times per day.
Perhaps if society let them do it whenever their child needed to be fed, there would be less of these rosy ideas of 'intimate moments' for something as dirt-common as feeding a hungry child.
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If you think a mother nursing her child from her own breast is equivalent to anyone, adult or child, eating a hamburger, you and I clearly have no further or common grounds to discuss this topic.
Nursing a child is "dirt-common"? That's just coarse.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on April 22, 2009, 10:54:34 pm ---The women didn't do that to their breasts on purpose to gross you out. :-\
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And your point would be?
I never said they did. I merely explained why women's breasts are not "sexualized" to me.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: David In Indy on April 22, 2009, 10:58:59 pm ---Well I can't speak for the others but the reason it feels awkward to me is because a woman's breasts are a very personal and private thing. Society teaches us this. And I always feel awkward looking in a general direction where a woman's breasts are exposed, or may be exposed. So I avert my eyes. If I am looking in her general direction she may think I am staring at her. And if she thought I was, how would she react? What would she think? So I do everything in my power to give her and the baby their privacy.
But that's just me.
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Apparently you and I both labor under "rosy ideas," David. :-\
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 22, 2009, 11:08:46 pm ---If you think a mother nursing her child from her own breast is equivalent to anyone, adult or child, eating a hamburger, you and I clearly have no further or common grounds to discuss this topic.
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Um, yeah it is. Guess you haven't been around many nursing mothers have you? That would be the common ground you're apparently unfamiliar with. Yes, nursing mothers sit around, shooting the shit while their babies grope their breasts and suckle. It's quite normal.
--- Quote ---Nursing a child is "dirt-common"? That's just coarse.
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"Coarse"? It's just an expression to mean extremely common. Like dirt is ubiquitous.
Ever been to 3rd world nations? Breast-feeding is done anywhere and everywhere, women whip it out and it's done. And the men of those countries - who are not gay - are not so caught up with the whole "breast fetish" that men in this country are. Wonder why?
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