I read Yahoo! comments on an article about public breastfeeding. Shouldn't have done that.
The scary thing about these Yahoo comments is that most of these people actually exist in reality and walk around carrying those opinions with them.
The rest might be trolls looking for a reaction.
The majority were all for public feeding . . . as long as the woman covers. If she feeds without covering up, she's a horrible, disgusting, awful woman who "cares more about making a statement than actually feeding their kids," and "probably get off of people staring at their boobs." What, exactly, is the problem with doing something to make a statement? The commenters certainly had no problem thumbing up guys who went on about how they'd stare or make lewd, harassing comments at woman who feed without covering in order to "to teach them feeding in public has consequences." But I guess encouraging "putting women in their place and making sure they remain modest and decent" to make a statement is much better than daring to make a statement about what should be a natural right because it happens to be something that rustles people's extremely delicate sensibilities. These people defaulted right back to "they want to do this in public, but then complain when they're stared at/get harassed." And seriously, the condescending, self-congratulatory back-patting by women commenters who brag about how they feed in public but "have the sense/decency" to "cover up" was annoying as well.
My sister once asked why men can expose their chests but not women, to which my mom replied, "Because men's don't hang out." That's literally the only reason. By that logic, women should be able to walk around without pants on because we don't have junk that hangs out.
