Why Is Breastfeeding in Public Still so Taboo?
https://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/why-is-breastfeeding-in-public-still-so-taboo-181911881.html“I am all for breastfeeding, but do not like breastfeeding in public,” Williams had said on her show Friday. “I don’t want to see it at my kitchen table, I don’t want to see it at Target, I don’t want to see it at Starbucks, in the airplane — and I especially don’t want to see it at graduation.”
Her comments rankled mommy bloggers and tweeters across the Internet and inspired Monday’s nurse-in, dubbed “Milkies in Manhattan” by organizer Patricia Villaverde, a breastfeeding advocate. “I found it so hypocritical that she says she’s fine with breastfeeding but that she doesn’t want to see it,” Villaverde told Yahoo Shine in between nursing sessions with her 2-and-a-half-year-old daughter, whom she carried in a front pack. “Why is she making a nursing mother feel like her only option is to hide?” The idea behind the nurse-in, she added, was “not meant to be a breast-is-best thing” but simply an attempt to “normalize what’s normal.” ...
Over the weekend in Connecticut, for example, a nurse-in drew more than 50 moms and babies to a Friendly’s restaurant in Norwich. The women came out in support of Tabitha Donohue, who says she was eating lunch and nursing her 8-week-old daughter at a table there last week when a manager asked her to either cover up or stop breastfeeding. “I told them I didn’t want to do either of those things,” Donohue said in an interview with Fox CT. “What’s offensive about breastfeeding?”
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It has to be the most natural thing since moms started having babies. More puritanical bullshit by the right side that hates women and their bodies imo.
And for people that say they don't go to Olive Garden to watch mom's breastfeed their babies...stop fucking looking then! 
If mom is a pit bull. 
I do know that when I lived in countries where it was the primary method of feeding a child, it wasn't such an obvious thing. Maybe the mothers with those breastfeeding kids weren't hanging out in restaurants and coffee shops and things like that.
You almost never saw it--maybe at the park or the playground, but rarely. And that's even though it was the favored method.
Then, when women went to work in large numbers, the ones that didn't do the formula thing got those pumps. They were supposed to act like having a kid was just a blip, keep moving forward, nothing to see here. The idea there, for a while, was to be the Super Woman, the Careerist, and do the bring home the bacon/fry it up in the pan thing. Then that morphed into the whole "Enough of this shit, the distribution of labor needs to be more equal" movement, and now we're seeing more stay at home fathers, though the distribution of labor isn't quite yet equal I don't think ... or maybe it is, I haven't kept up (I don't think it is, though).
Even in this country...think back to the fifties. How many mothers, no matter how they fed their kids, hung out at "malls" or "Starbucks" equivalents? They didn't. They were stuck at home, climbing the walls, most of 'em. If they had their "own" car they were lucky.
People are more mobile these days--they are out and about, not sitting at home. That's why this is more visible, I think. And that is why people are noticing. And as more people notice, the more they talk about it...and people with no opinion at all, because they've never really seen much of this going on, are now asked to weigh in on how they "feel" about it.
But again, I don't know, so don't go screaming at me for not having the "right" answer.
This is just speculation on my part.
In politics and diplomacy, dual-use is technology that can be used for both peaceful and military aims.
Although in the right hands they can be used for peaceful nurturing purposes, many feel that they can also be used as weapons of men's destruction.
