It seems that if given a choice between owning as many guns as is humanly possible, or (shudder) seeing a mother breastfeed a baby, many neocons would choose the guns. Apparently a lactating breast is too much for them to even contemplate. (I will remind you, we are talking about the "Right to Life" crowd.)
My husband's buddy, I like to call him "Smith" (as in, Smith and Wesson), is a bit of a neocon. He claims he favors individual rights and is against big government. He's made plenty of statements that contradict that supposed stance. I keep thinking my husband just can't surprise me anymore with any of Smith's baloney, but he always proves me wrong.
The latest? Smith thinks people should be able to smoke in restaurants and in public places. But a mother should not be allowed to breastfeed her baby in those same public places. He likens breastfeeding to defecating. It really irks me when uptight numskulls make that analogy. They claim that yes, breastfeeding is natural, but so is pooping. To my way of thinking, eating...in a restaurant, is normal and natural. Why shouldn't a baby eat with the rest of the family? And for the life of me I cannot figure out what is supposed to be so disgusting about breastfeeding or breasts in general anyway. Smith told my husband that breastfeeding women allow themselves to just "hang out". My husband said, "Really? Where have you seen that?" He didn't get a response from Smith.
It was rather stupid of Smith to say that to my husband, of all men. After all, I breastfed Little Man until he was 2 1/2. (Yeah, apparently I'm quite the wild woman.) My husband is rather in tune with breastfeeding mamas and he's quite the nursing proponent. We attended a picnic for the local midwifery association when Little Man was 4 months old and there were quite a few nursing women there. That was the only place we ever saw any nursing mamas "hanging out" in public (yours truly was among the hanging-out crowd).
Smith however, doesn't see anything wrong with a baby breathing someone's nasty secondhand smoke. Smith also happens to be a gun-nut. He thinks people should be allowed to own as many guns as they want and they should be able to "protect themselves". So let me get this straight, guns and shooting people are ok, but breastfeeding is bad. Well heck, my 5 year old son knows that just doesn't make sense. Even he knows that a baby "drinks milk from it's mommy's boobies". If a 5 year old can get it right, why can't the neocons?
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