An Australian Senator breastfed her baby during a speech to Parliament and nobody batted en eye lid. The world needs to take note.

As expected the comments on here are a mix of creepy, sexist and uneducated shots at a mother trying to feed her newborn. I'm not a woman and I don't have a child, but I am supportive of the whole "let a woman breastfeed her kids in peace, in public, at her work or at home" cause that is simply a standard human right issue. I've gathered some facts about the matter I'll list below:

  • Breast feeding is a requirement for the baby. Not for the comfort of the woman and certainly not for the enjoyment of others. If you don't want to see a woman breastfeeding because you can't control your juvenile instincts or you feel it's some sort of sexual distraction you can simply not look.

  • Some newborns don't accept anything other than directly breastfeeding, why I don't know, but starving the child is not an alternative. When that is the case the mother needs to keep the child on her at all times. If her job doesn't allow leave, or she doesn't want to take it, then she would require breastfeeding her child in public if necessary.

  • In Ontario Canada, as well as many places around Europe and I'm sure more places I'm unaware of, women are allowed to go around topless because of temperature/heat in the summer. If guys can go topless why not women.

At the end of the day we've all seen a pair of boobs. It's the first thing you get exposed to coming to life (except for certain cases of course). It's not the end of the world. Not everything needs to be sexualized. We're in 2019, let's act like it.

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