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  • >enough to make a customer at the Wild Oats Natural Marketplace in Portland uncomfortable.

    maybe it's different in portland, but the wild oats where i live attracts all kinds of liberal-minded types. i would have never imagined this is the store that would have complaints about breastfeading.

    just shows that it's a idiot who throws reason to the wind and blindly follows "the customer is always right."

    this woman was worried about some marginal breast display during breastfeading, but in most stores ther
    • maybe it's different in portland, but the wild oats where i live attracts all kinds of liberal-minded types. i would have never imagined this is the store that would have complaints about breastfeading.

      The person who complained may not be someone who regularly shops at that store. Thus the original plan to pull the magazines off the shelves, wait til they were gone, and put them back - the liberal-minded regular customers don't object.
  • read la journal de Em for my take on it.

  • What's next??? A magazine with a naked cat on the cover?!?!

    We must do something about this!!! Vote yes on NKiPA: the no kitty porn act.

  • From the article:

    He said a customer came in about three weeks ago and said she was uncomfortable having her young son see the magazine cover.

    Which begs the question: Was her son bottle-fed? Otherwise he would have been in that same situation himself not that long ago --

    And even if he weren't -- this makes less sense the more I think about it....

  • Why is she shopping at a store that is named for a particular variety of sexual activity?
  • ...huh-huh...she said "boob".

    Sorry Bethanie, but this is exactly why I'm worried about my wife breastfeeding in America. Some asshat is bound to say something stupid, nevermind how "natural" it may be...and all we need is for her to get arrested for indecent exposure or whatnot (regardless of whether she's acquitted or not).

    As an old friend of mine used to swear, "Jesus' tits, what an asshole"...

    Cheers,

    Ethelred

    • I *really* have a hard time believing that if your wife is just breastfeeding Jr. and making even the least bit of effort trying to be discreet that it will be a problem.

      Uptight people will complain about magazine covers -- magazine covers can't talk back, and stores want to accommodate their customers -- but very rarely will they honestly confront a real, live person doing it in public. And if they do, if you keep your wits about you and remain civil, there's no way you're going to get hauled off to jail
      • Worse comes to worst, someone complains, they're gonna give your wife a chance to cover up and/or take it elsewhere. If getting jailed is a concern, then you just meekly comply. Nobody's gonna sneak up on your wife and slap cuffs on her for breastfeeding.

        I'm not saying that I expect to be clapped in irons the instant my wife starts breastfeeding. You're reading too much into what I said. I am saying that I wouldn't be surprised if someone was upset enough to call the cops (see below) or at least complain

        • I'm saying "I don't think anyone has the right to complain, period".

          Well, technically, they have the right to complain (1st amendment & all), but they don't have the right to make you do anything different. Breastfeeding mothers are *very* much protected under US laws. Local culture can be something else entirely, though, and it sounds like you're pretty down on your old stomping grounds. FWIW, my experience (down here in the TRUE Buckle of the [Baptist] Bible Belt) has been that more conservative t

          • Your comment that "all we need is for her to get arrested for indecent exposure or whatnot" led me to believe that you were actually worried about her getting arrested for breastfeeding. Surely you realize that this won't happen.

            On the one hand, I don't seriously expect it to happen -- but OTOH nothing would surprise me. Every once in a while, the European news reports on some unfortunate European tourists in America who've made that mistake. Usually it's "duh" level, as in "you really should have known

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