norwaytips
11:39 Sat Dec 6
Re: Breast feeding in public
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I've seen people doing it, in restaurants, on trams, on trains and, in the summer, on a park bench. No one, in Norway, gives a toss, in fact, you would draw more attention, giving a baby a bottle. Every mum breastfeeds, or seems to.
Most tend to be a bit discreet and it's hardly sexy, is it? It's just a young human, being fed in a natural way. Anyone that objects, should take a look at themselves.
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ChesterRd
10:58 Sat Dec 6
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see through even
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ChesterRd
10:55 Sat Dec 6
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Mashed, may not be as gentile as once was. There was a photo posted up on twitter yesterday or what I assume is some Z lister blonde bimbo wearing a sea through dress and bra less entering Claridges.
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Crassus
10:25 Sat Dec 6
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Surface is obviously correct
More to the point, having just seen that herd of munters, udders out, protesting aside of Claridges, who the Hell impregnated the beasts?
Or is that why turkey basters are on sale throughout the year?
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Lily Hammer
7:05 Sat Dec 6
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Can't argue with that, Surface.
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
7:03 Sat Dec 6
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LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME. I'VE GOT A BABY. NO ONE HAS HAD ONE BEFORE AND I'M THE BEST. LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME. I'M ACTUALLY FEEDING IT ALL BY MYSELF AND THERE'S NOT A THING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. AREN'T I CLEVER AND ISN'T MY BABY THE BEST EVER.
That's what people find offensive.
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Scraper
5:47 Sat Dec 6
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I am a Scandie, and we don't condone tits out in a non-sexual context. You've got it wrong brah.
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Lily Hammer
5:20 Sat Dec 6
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It's just a cultural thing. I live in Norway, where farting and picking your nose at the table is not on. Feeding a baby, no problem. At first I noted this and thought "Hello, you don't see that much." Then I soon got over it when I realised everyone does it without batting an eyelid.
So for years I've reflected on all the differences between here and home. On this issue, I prefer the Scandi attitude.
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mashed in maryland
5:14 Sat Dec 6
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I mean things like wearing a suit, being presentable, using a napkin, not burping or farting, not putting your elbows on the table, discussing polite topics etc. probably go hand in hand with "don't start openly breastfeeding" don't they.
It's not about right or wrong or sex or feminism or discrimination or any of that shit, it's just Claridges have an image they want to uphold. Breast feeding openly doesn't come into it.
The solution? Either abide by their rules or go somewhere else. Problem over.
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mashed in maryland
5:10 Sat Dec 6
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But in a gentile environment, you expect very smart, very formal and very well mannered and cultured things don't you. You don't want natural, you want snootiness. That's the point.
Sex has nothing to do with it.
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Lily Hammer
5:08 Sat Dec 6
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...way....back to the footy.
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Lily Hammer
5:08 Sat Dec 6
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I understand the genteel conventions involved; it's those that I'm questioning. Are they good things when it leads to mothers being asked to cover up the feeding act.
The intimate thing is not comparible with sexual intimacy, which I'm not new age anough to condone in any restaurant. It is an intimate act between mother and baby, but not one that I believe should be hidden on behalf of anyone, unless the mother herself has issues with it being on show.
Any
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mashed in maryland
5:07 Sat Dec 6
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Well even if you walked around in Berlin or Amsterdam starkers you'd probably get nicked and all.
Also in my experience cloggies are a lot more conservative than people give them credit for.
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LAD
5:05 Sat Dec 6
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MiM, nudity causes awkwardness.
We in the UK arent accustomed to it like our European friends.
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mashed in maryland
5:04 Sat Dec 6
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Nudity doesn't have to be sexual. Yet if you walked around in public without any clothes on you'd probably be arrested.
Some social norms just "are".
All these people scrambling around to change things and get offended by everything are doing no cunt no favours. Just seems to me that they have nothing to worry about so just kick off over fuck all to feel all noble and self righteous.
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mashed in maryland
5:02 Sat Dec 6
Re: Breast feeding in public
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As I said I don't think its cos of anything sexual. It's mostly IMO cos its an intimate moment between mummy and baby.
As I said Claridges has a very gentile atmosphere and that's what people pay for. You wouldn't bowl into the restaurant there in grubby work clothes and a hi-vis and order a pint of lager and a vindaloo would you?
A child-friendly family pub on a summers afternoon full of screaming kids and no one would bat an eyelid at anyone breastfeeding. An expensive restaurant in an expensive hotel in the west end and it's a bit different.
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Scraper
5:01 Sat Dec 6
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Lily,
you are the one with sexual issues.
Tits in a non-sexual context are not interesting and I don't want em in mah face when I'm eating.
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Lily Hammer
4:58 Sat Dec 6
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I'm having trouble with my babnabasas.
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Lily Hammer
4:57 Sat Dec 6
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Yeah, but why keep it down? In case of what? Why should anyone ask her to cover her baby's head in the first place?
I know one answer is to protect people being upset or feeling awkward, but the real question is why would they feel that at all?
I think it's connected to the repressed cultural thing of No sex please, we're British. I can only put it down to breasts being sexualised to the point that they seem rude and their actual purpose is ignored because of that.
There's no doubting that we men can attach sexuality to a girl eating a babnana. Can you imagine women having to put a towel over their heads everytime they eat a babana, to avoid anyone feeling awkward with this being done visibly?
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mashed in maryland
4:49 Sat Dec 6
Re: Breast feeding in public
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Lily Hammer 4:31 Sat Dec 6
I think you're looking a bit much into it.
I'd guess Claridges has a very smart policy. People pay a lot of money to go there and enjoy a very gentile environment. If you've paid a lot of dough for that sort of thing you wouldn't expect to see someone breast feeding. The odds are that no one single person complained, but the staff thought it best, just in case, to ask her to "keep it down a bit".
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mentor
4:32 Sat Dec 6
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I blame the rise in the popularity of Internet porn. Morals have just gone out the window.
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