why must everything be ad absurdum?

[some_stars]

...I think the breastfeeding/infant discussion is completely ridiculous, though. YOU CAN'T BRING YOUR BABIES EVERYWHERE. Just wait a year or two, for fuck's sake. I mean, choosing to breastfeed only and without pumping is an awesome choice, but it's a CHOICE that you make that has CONSEQUENCES. You can't bring your baby to a fucking bar, either.

clarification: I am 1000% in favor of breastfeeding in public and I think it should be allowed in every place babies are allowed. I just don't think everywhere in the entire world needs to allow babies.

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[ellen_fremedon]

I'm just boggled that it took one comment thread-- not even a long thread!-- to get from "are there accomodations for nursing mothers at the con, and if so what are they?" to "formula is evil and if you don't exclusively breastfeed your child you will regret it! Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life." This affects con accessibility how again?

Seriously, we can't have one discussion that acknowledges the existence of infants without getting into drive-by parent-shaming...

Oh. Wait. Yeah, maybe not so boggled. Appalled, but not boggled.

[cereta]

Pish. Don't be silly.

Sorry, having a little bitterness, here. I stayed home the year my kid was born because my six-week-old was not ready to be away from me for a whole weekend, nor I from her, and I wasn't actually breastfeeding. The idea that it would have been okay to let a breastfeeding mother bring her baby but not allow me to bring mine...brings up a whole lot of issues for me that I thought were gone when I finally accepted that my body wasn't going to produce milk. Apparently not.

[some_stars]

Yeah, that bugged me a whole lot.