- Xsoteria:
- I just find it ridiculous that you or any breastfeeding woman would be shocked or offended if someone looked at your breasts when you whiped them out somewhere public.
The Rumor, Dru and Kurtni all suggested that they consider staring rude, regardless of the person/behaviour.
- Xsoteria:
- and then pretend they're all shocked and offended that they are recieving attention of random passerbyers.
Newsflash, which I assume will come as news if you are making sexist statements like this, a woman who dresses up may not be doing it for the "attention of random passerbyers." A woman might want attention from specific people, or maybe she is dressing the way she wants to, because she feels good dressing like that. Is she asking to be stared at? No more than she would be asking for whistles, lewd comments or sexual assault. Unless a woman asks someone for attention, how dare you suggest she is feigning her offence (or horror, or fear, or any emotion that the received attention elicits) or that she was asking for the response from "random passerbyers." If I dressed up for my partner, that's who I want the attention from. And "random passerbyers" have no greater rights over my person than if I was covered head to toe.
Having said that, I'll reiterate my first point, the point everyone else on this page made: people, legally, have the 'right' to stare at anyone. But I can think of no circumstances where it socially appropriate or acceptable to do so.* If you're arguing the former, no-one is disagreeing. If you're arguing the latter, even if we suggested that lewd/sexual acts fell under 'fair game' for staring, like Audrey said - breastfeeding is neither lewd nor sexual.
(*Excepting violence, but I'd suggest more than staring is morally desirable, i.e. yelling out, intervening, or getting help.)