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		<title>By: John</title>
		<link>http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/07/28/breastfeeding-in-public/comment-page-3/#comment-26158</link>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Breast feeding in public is as innocent as any other form of public nudity (even more so, as it serves a necessity), the perverted is in the mind of the beholder.</description>
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		<title>By: ltbugaf</title>
		<link>http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/07/28/breastfeeding-in-public/comment-page-3/#comment-22713</link>
		<dc:creator>ltbugaf</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t think it&#039;s entirely fair to say to a man who experiences a sexual feeling when he sees a woman&#039;s breasts that it&#039;s all his fault, and that he should be ashamed for &quot;sexualizing&quot; women.  Men are hard-wired to have sexual reactions to women&#039;s bodies.  We&#039;re supposed to.  We have an indefeasible instinct to react that way.  Being subject to human nature doesn&#039;t make men bad.  Although I personally approve of public breastfeeding, I don&#039;t think it&#039;s right to cast such aspersions on men who may be made uncomfortable by having sexual feelings provoked in ways they can&#039;t help.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s entirely fair to say to a man who experiences a sexual feeling when he sees a woman&#8217;s breasts that it&#8217;s all his fault, and that he should be ashamed for &#8220;sexualizing&#8221; women.  Men are hard-wired to have sexual reactions to women&#8217;s bodies.  We&#8217;re supposed to.  We have an indefeasible instinct to react that way.  Being subject to human nature doesn&#8217;t make men bad.  Although I personally approve of public breastfeeding, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s right to cast such aspersions on men who may be made uncomfortable by having sexual feelings provoked in ways they can&#8217;t help.</p>
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		<title>By: Mary Siever</title>
		<link>http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/07/28/breastfeeding-in-public/comment-page-3/#comment-22564</link>
		<dc:creator>Mary Siever</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>J.W. MacTaggart

Thank you very much for your thoughts! Very concise and true.</description>
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<p>Thank you very much for your thoughts! Very concise and true.</p>
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		<title>By: J. W. Mactaggart</title>
		<link>http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/07/28/breastfeeding-in-public/comment-page-3/#comment-22529</link>
		<dc:creator>J. W. Mactaggart</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 03:18:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My brain is unable to believe what my eyes are seeing.  Mary, you have every right to breastfeed your infant.  Connor, your problem is what it is, and nothing more.  YOU have sexualized women.  YOU have a problem, not any woman who decides to breastfeed.  If you have diminished woman to the state of a sexual toy, fit for procreation and nothing more, that is YOUR problem.  Fortunately, most of the world has moved past that rather Neanderthal ideological framework.    

Regardless of what anybody believes, man wrote the Bible (as he has written every extant ideological text known to humanity). It was man who decreed that man was superior to woman.  It is presumptuous in the extreme for Man to claim to know what God does or does not intend.  This is not an ideological argument, it is one of practicality. Infants need nourishment. Women&#039;s mammaries were designed to provide nourishment.  It&#039;s that easy.  

Somebody used a second-hand smoke argument. That is an erroneous argument -- a straw man fallacy.  If you smoke in my space, your carcinogens are invading my lungs. I do not have a choice of whether or not to breathe and, quite frankly, you do not have the right to poison me.  When a woman is breastfeeding her infant, you do not have to look.  In fact, if the mere sight of a naked breast makes you feel aroused to the extent that you begin to feel aroused, perhaps you need to consider what that says about you.

J.W., Ph.D.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My brain is unable to believe what my eyes are seeing.  Mary, you have every right to breastfeed your infant.  Connor, your problem is what it is, and nothing more.  YOU have sexualized women.  YOU have a problem, not any woman who decides to breastfeed.  If you have diminished woman to the state of a sexual toy, fit for procreation and nothing more, that is YOUR problem.  Fortunately, most of the world has moved past that rather Neanderthal ideological framework.    </p>
<p>Regardless of what anybody believes, man wrote the Bible (as he has written every extant ideological text known to humanity). It was man who decreed that man was superior to woman.  It is presumptuous in the extreme for Man to claim to know what God does or does not intend.  This is not an ideological argument, it is one of practicality. Infants need nourishment. Women&#8217;s mammaries were designed to provide nourishment.  It&#8217;s that easy.  </p>
<p>Somebody used a second-hand smoke argument. That is an erroneous argument &#8212; a straw man fallacy.  If you smoke in my space, your carcinogens are invading my lungs. I do not have a choice of whether or not to breathe and, quite frankly, you do not have the right to poison me.  When a woman is breastfeeding her infant, you do not have to look.  In fact, if the mere sight of a naked breast makes you feel aroused to the extent that you begin to feel aroused, perhaps you need to consider what that says about you.</p>
<p>J.W., Ph.D.</p>
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		<title>By: Just Wondering</title>
		<link>http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/07/28/breastfeeding-in-public/comment-page-3/#comment-21462</link>
		<dc:creator>Just Wondering</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sean, you’re one sick puppy, and a nasty, compulsive liar as well. 

You’ve been spewing your supposed “Catholic, ultra right wing conservative” views over every forum you can get onto across the Internet. You have insulted most of the women you’ve come in contact with, you’ve claimed to be people you aren’t and in general caused havoc with your disgusting comments, which usually end up with you spewing comparisons between breastfeeding and masturbation. 

Some forum moderators have had to censure you or shut down the topic because of your infantile ranting and raving. This doesn’t seem to stop you, because you’re a sick individual who will always find still another forum where you can continue to spew your anti-female insults. 

Some of us question things that we read on the ‘Net, and you’ve recently been put “under the magnifying glass” so to speak. Over on Buzznet, you’ve been using the very appropriate name of “Batonclub” on their QOTD forums (quite fitting your personality, considering your feelings about women), and you’ve managed to disgust a number of people there. 

http://www.buzznet.com/groups/qotd/forum/topics/5187/

The &quot;Republican petitions&quot; that you describe are a hoax, as others who bothered to check into it have found out. You are a profane and disgusting embarrassment to just about every self-respecting male on the ‘Net</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sean, you’re one sick puppy, and a nasty, compulsive liar as well. </p>
<p>You’ve been spewing your supposed “Catholic, ultra right wing conservative” views over every forum you can get onto across the Internet. You have insulted most of the women you’ve come in contact with, you’ve claimed to be people you aren’t and in general caused havoc with your disgusting comments, which usually end up with you spewing comparisons between breastfeeding and masturbation. </p>
<p>Some forum moderators have had to censure you or shut down the topic because of your infantile ranting and raving. This doesn’t seem to stop you, because you’re a sick individual who will always find still another forum where you can continue to spew your anti-female insults. </p>
<p>Some of us question things that we read on the ‘Net, and you’ve recently been put “under the magnifying glass” so to speak. Over on Buzznet, you’ve been using the very appropriate name of “Batonclub” on their QOTD forums (quite fitting your personality, considering your feelings about women), and you’ve managed to disgust a number of people there. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.buzznet.com/groups/qotd/forum/topics/5187/">http://www.buzznet.com/groups/qotd/forum/topics/5187/</a></p>
<p>The &#8220;Republican petitions&#8221; that you describe are a hoax, as others who bothered to check into it have found out. You are a profane and disgusting embarrassment to just about every self-respecting male on the ‘Net</p>
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		<title>By: sean</title>
		<link>http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/07/28/breastfeeding-in-public/comment-page-3/#comment-19573</link>
		<dc:creator>sean</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2007 04:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;div class=&quot;troll&quot;&gt;Bill said: I believe women should be allowed the privillege of breast feeding thier children whenever the child is hungry or needs nursing. It is a natural part of being a baby and there is nothing wrong or sexual about a woman breast feeding.

Anyone who dares to disagree with me on this topic is a prude. 

If you are a PRUDE, then show me the passage of scripture where this is bad. 

Bill urinating-defacating is also a natural thing too just like breastfeeding. But i wouldnt recommend it in public, so does that make me a prude??, does not condoning sex in public make me a prude even though its a natural sexual act as breastfeeding your child in public??. Bill...a mother who breastfeeds needs to set good examples for herself by taking it somewhere privatly like either a bathroom or a car to set a good example for the child too as well so he will be happy. When people at a restaurant are trying to eat Bill, we as the customers are always right and do not want to see some OVER SIZED HUMAN SUCTION CUP cup latched onto some womens sexual private parts like as if we are watching a R rated film because that **** is gross and unsanitary. Public breastfeeding is part of a liberal free society bill, and a free liberal society is teaching people to be rude and impolite which it doesnt seem to occur to you because all your thinking about is your precious rights for women over common curtiousy and respect for me and for others. Indecent exposure is the issue here that nursing mothers readily flaunt and ignore, not so much about breastfeeding. They think that just because they have babies latched onto there sexual private parts that it makes them the center of the world an order to give herself and that child a title of embarrasment and discrace&lt;/div&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="troll">Bill said: I believe women should be allowed the privillege of breast feeding thier children whenever the child is hungry or needs nursing. It is a natural part of being a baby and there is nothing wrong or sexual about a woman breast feeding.</p>
<p>Anyone who dares to disagree with me on this topic is a prude. </p>
<p>If you are a PRUDE, then show me the passage of scripture where this is bad. </p>
<p>Bill urinating-defacating is also a natural thing too just like breastfeeding. But i wouldnt recommend it in public, so does that make me a prude??, does not condoning sex in public make me a prude even though its a natural sexual act as breastfeeding your child in public??. Bill&#8230;a mother who breastfeeds needs to set good examples for herself by taking it somewhere privatly like either a bathroom or a car to set a good example for the child too as well so he will be happy. When people at a restaurant are trying to eat Bill, we as the customers are always right and do not want to see some OVER SIZED HUMAN SUCTION CUP cup latched onto some womens sexual private parts like as if we are watching a R rated film because that **** is gross and unsanitary. Public breastfeeding is part of a liberal free society bill, and a free liberal society is teaching people to be rude and impolite which it doesnt seem to occur to you because all your thinking about is your precious rights for women over common curtiousy and respect for me and for others. Indecent exposure is the issue here that nursing mothers readily flaunt and ignore, not so much about breastfeeding. They think that just because they have babies latched onto there sexual private parts that it makes them the center of the world an order to give herself and that child a title of embarrasment and discrace</p></div>
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		<title>By: George</title>
		<link>http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/07/28/breastfeeding-in-public/comment-page-3/#comment-19572</link>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2007 04:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sean said: &quot;we should have the right to go topless in public just as a man has.&quot;

Are you a woman Sean?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sean said: &#8220;we should have the right to go topless in public just as a man has.&#8221;</p>
<p>Are you a woman Sean?</p>
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		<title>By: sean</title>
		<link>http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/07/28/breastfeeding-in-public/comment-page-3/#comment-19570</link>
		<dc:creator>sean</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2007 04:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bill said: I believe women should be allowed the privillege of breast feeding thier children whenever the child is hungry or needs nursing. It is a natural part of being a baby and there is nothing wrong or sexual about a woman breast feeding.

Anyone who dares to disagree with me on this topic is a prude. 

If you are a PRUDE, then show me the passage of scripture where this is bad.&quot; 














umm Bill a womens body is beautiful. we should have the right to go topless in public just as a man has. However there are signs posted in restaurants that say &quot;no shoes, no shirts, no service&quot;, an airline or any restaurant has the right to refuse services to anyone who isnt covered up, including breastfeeding mothers. The same thing also applys when you come into someones house, you have to show some respect and manners as well as entering a public restaurant or a airplane. When you come into someones house as a guest and not wearing a shirt or just plain breastfeeding openly where everyone can be subjected to it, the owner of the house has every right to refuse services to them as guest when they are doing something inappropriatly. Thats how it is when you come into someones house Bill &quot;my house, my rules&quot;, should we sue a owner of the home to refusing a party guest for breastfeeding her child openly at a party??. I dont think so, people are happily flanting there breast and ignoring decency and common curtiousy for one a nothers compforts</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bill said: I believe women should be allowed the privillege of breast feeding thier children whenever the child is hungry or needs nursing. It is a natural part of being a baby and there is nothing wrong or sexual about a woman breast feeding.</p>
<p>Anyone who dares to disagree with me on this topic is a prude. </p>
<p>If you are a PRUDE, then show me the passage of scripture where this is bad.&#8221; </p>
<p>umm Bill a womens body is beautiful. we should have the right to go topless in public just as a man has. However there are signs posted in restaurants that say &#8220;no shoes, no shirts, no service&#8221;, an airline or any restaurant has the right to refuse services to anyone who isnt covered up, including breastfeeding mothers. The same thing also applys when you come into someones house, you have to show some respect and manners as well as entering a public restaurant or a airplane. When you come into someones house as a guest and not wearing a shirt or just plain breastfeeding openly where everyone can be subjected to it, the owner of the house has every right to refuse services to them as guest when they are doing something inappropriatly. Thats how it is when you come into someones house Bill &#8220;my house, my rules&#8221;, should we sue a owner of the home to refusing a party guest for breastfeeding her child openly at a party??. I dont think so, people are happily flanting there breast and ignoring decency and common curtiousy for one a nothers compforts</p>
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		<title>By: sean</title>
		<link>http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/07/28/breastfeeding-in-public/comment-page-3/#comment-19562</link>
		<dc:creator>sean</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;div class=&quot;troll&quot;&gt;Bottlefeeding a child is a norm and always has been the norm while nursing in public. We cannot turn the norm around and make public indecent exposure such as public breastfeeding the norm because then it shows we are a bunch of uncivilized ignorant savages who havent evolved from the stone age yet. Lactivist liberals are turning our society into a bunch of uneducated ignorant savages who are miseducating a bunch of niave stupid people into believing that public breastfeeding is normal. Lactivist liberals are a poison to American society and are brainwashing people&#039;s minds in our schools and colleges that what was considered abnormal then is considered normal now. We cannot abandoned common sense over some womens rights POLITICAL CORRECT bull**** just to have an excuse to go public nude and to make it the norm all because we as a weak society have the need to bend over backwards for political correctness. There&#039;s no excuses of why you cant breastfeed in a private exclusive location when i can think of so many private locations. Just like theres no excuses to breastfeed in public either when the child can waite to be fed till he gets home or to be breastfed one hour before going out to a restaurant. Theres so many options i can think of, but many public breastfeeding on demand lactivist wont go with those options just so they can have this behavioriol attitude to use as a weapon against us. Any private exclusive location is enough discretion i can think of rather than using a blanket or a shawl&lt;/div&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="troll">Bottlefeeding a child is a norm and always has been the norm while nursing in public. We cannot turn the norm around and make public indecent exposure such as public breastfeeding the norm because then it shows we are a bunch of uncivilized ignorant savages who havent evolved from the stone age yet. Lactivist liberals are turning our society into a bunch of uneducated ignorant savages who are miseducating a bunch of niave stupid people into believing that public breastfeeding is normal. Lactivist liberals are a poison to American society and are brainwashing people&#8217;s minds in our schools and colleges that what was considered abnormal then is considered normal now. We cannot abandoned common sense over some womens rights POLITICAL CORRECT bull**** just to have an excuse to go public nude and to make it the norm all because we as a weak society have the need to bend over backwards for political correctness. There&#8217;s no excuses of why you cant breastfeed in a private exclusive location when i can think of so many private locations. Just like theres no excuses to breastfeed in public either when the child can waite to be fed till he gets home or to be breastfed one hour before going out to a restaurant. Theres so many options i can think of, but many public breastfeeding on demand lactivist wont go with those options just so they can have this behavioriol attitude to use as a weapon against us. Any private exclusive location is enough discretion i can think of rather than using a blanket or a shawl</div>
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		<title>By: Mary Siever</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mary Siever</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2007 23:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;ve left them, Rick. It&#039;s Sean who&#039;s stuck in a time warp. Well, stuck in something anyway.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;ve left them, Rick. It&#8217;s Sean who&#8217;s stuck in a time warp. Well, stuck in something anyway.</p>
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