Uppity See You Next Tuesdays Mess With Target Over Breastfeeding

[Callisto]

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyl...demonstration/

Fuck being an entrepreneur these days, people are too damn stupid to try running a store, lol

[Olo401]

SHOW US YOUR TITS

[Xno Kappa]

Nah, they need to put them shits away if the bitches are ugly. If you hot though we good, I'll support your right to floss dem titties in public.

[Acturus]

The best part about someone getting upset with a breastfeeding woman is how the retaliation is never over the top to the point of ridiculousness.

Nope, never.

[Callisto]

It appears that the whole thing stems from one woman being asked if she would move to a more discreet part of a Target like the changing rooms until she finished feeding two years ago, and she felt so slighted that she started an organization and made a federal case out of it.

This is all being done under the umbrella of the Civil Rights Act, so apparently she deems being able to breastfeed wherever she pleases is on par with suffrage.

[jmc]

Never understood the whole fuss about breast feeding in public.

If it makes you feel uncomfortable, then just look the other way.

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[Ksandra]

It appears that the whole thing stems from one woman being asked if she would move to a more discreet part of a Target like the changing rooms until she finished feeding two years ago, and she felt so slighted that she started an organization and made a federal case out of it.

This is all being done under the umbrella of the Civil Rights Act, so apparently she deems being able to breastfeed wherever she pleases is on par with suffrage.

to be fair, it doesn't really sound like that. In the article itself Target says their policy is that a woman can breastfeed anywhere and that they had to instruct the employees of that store that they shouldn't have done what they did.

Of course, that could just be them ing so they can avoid more stand-ins. (anyone work, or worked, for target and know?) But I mean if the store has a policy and the employees go against it, it isn't just about her feeling entitled.

Also, talking about this with a friend on vent, if you look at the pic it is very easy to breastfeed a baby without having tits showing. So the issue is more of how much was she showing? As well, if the article is telling the truth, it's one thing to have an employee come and ask, another to get surrounded by 8 of them.

[Callisto]

My issue isn't about the breastfeeding itself, it's that Target as a store, is apparently not allowed to request women to be more discreet about it. This seems a hell of a lot closer to 'No shirt, no shoes, no service' than white/colored drinking fountains. There had to be a line drawn where stores are able to say that a minority group cannot do something within their stores in the interests of the majority of their customers.

[Yuri-G]

the law may be on her side but common decency dictates that you don't whip your breasts out in the middle of the store. find a changing room, be private about it, for your own sake and the sake of the people around you. I mean come on, the middle of the women's clothing section, is that really an appropriate place to breastfeed your kid? just because it's legal doesn't mean you should. and I don't know much about breastfeeding but I gather you have enough time to find a place to sit down, preferably private, so this "the baby shouldn't have to wait" stuff doesn't fly with me.

that said, Target done fucked up. whether I find her behavior to be crude or not, it's legal.

[Xno Kappa]

to be fair, it doesn't really sound like that. In the article itself Target says their policy is that a woman can breastfeed anywhere and that they had to instruct the employees of that store that they shouldn't have done what they did.

Of course, that could just be them ing so they can avoid more stand-ins. (anyone work, or worked, for target and know?) But I mean if the store has a policy and the employees go against it, it isn't just about her feeling entitled.

Also, talking about this with a friend on vent, if you look at the pic it is very easy to breastfeed a baby without having tits showing. So the issue is more of how much was she showing? As well, if the article is telling the truth, it's one thing to have an employee come and ask, another to get surrounded by 8 of them.

I've had women breastfeed their child right in front of me without realizing it until I purposely looked to find out. I think some of it stems from a bitches insecurity and her proclamation of "LOOK, SOMEONE KNOCKED ME UP! I AM FUCKABLE!" So they bust out titties like it's Mardi Gras or some shit to breastfeed. Every woman I know always breastfed discreetly, whether in public or not, just seems like attention whoring in this situation to me.

[AidenCarby]

Or you can not pull your tits out in public, 99% of the bitches trying to breastfeed in public are ugly fat bitches anyway. Not like I'm going to have the greatest day of my life where that 1% of fine ass bitches are walkin around with a tit hanging out anyway. Fine bitches know they're fine and won't give niggas the courtesy of seeing that tittie, don't see what the issue is, fat ugly bitches...keep them in your shirt, otherwise fine them for indecent exposure.

[Tyche]

Really guys...really?

reallllllly?

[Acturus]

My issue isn't about the breastfeeding itself, it's that Target as a store, is apparently not allowed to request women to be more discreet about it. This seems a hell of a lot closer to 'No shirt, no shoes, no service' than white/colored drinking fountains. There had to be a line drawn where stores are able to say that a minority group cannot do something within their stores in the interests of the majority of their customers.

Corporations are people, my friend.

[Haiko]

Never understood the whole fuss about breast feeding in public.

If it makes you feel uncomfortable, then just look the other way.

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[Ksandra]

Every woman I know always breastfed discreetly, whether in public or not, just seems like attention whoring in this situation to me.

This is my point though. I wish the article gave an idea of how covered she was. I know a lot of women that have had to breastfeed in public and had coverings that made is so the tits don't show. In this case, I don't think it's inappropriate at all as you don't even see anything. I just wish we knew if she just full on whipped it out or had a covering. Either way, again my point was really that target "claims" that it's their policy to let women breastfeed anywhere. Which means the employees were in the wrong not just because of "blah blah breastfeeding legal", but for not following the company policy.

Opinion wise, tits aren't that serious. Newborns especially are supposed to be "spoiled" 100% in that if they want something you're supposed to give it to them ASAP no matter what. So ya, I think it's a little silly for people getting up in arms over a little bit of titties when the women are technically doing something they are exactly supposed to do.

[Tyche]

Not all stores have a dressing room, fuck your hygiene, go to the bathroom and feed!

[Acturus]

Also, Breastfeeding in Target ≠ Breastfeeding in Public, unless I have the wrong definition of "public".

Maybe Texas has a law for it, but fuck a national law promoting this. Breastfeeding may be a natural act, but so is procreating, and I can't procreate in public, much less in a Target dressing room, without getting in trouble with the law.

[Callisto]

to be fair, it doesn't really sound like that. In the article itself Target says their policy is that a woman can breastfeed anywhere and that they had to instruct the employees of that store that they shouldn't have done what they did.

Of course, that could just be them ing so they can avoid more stand-ins. (anyone work, or worked, for target and know?) But I mean if the store has a policy and the employees go against it, it isn't just about her feeling entitled.

Also, talking about this with a friend on vent, if you look at the pic it is very easy to breastfeed a baby without having tits showing. So the issue is more of how much was she showing? As well, if the article is telling the truth, it's one thing to have an employee come and ask, another to get surrounded by 8 of them.

The issue is that other store patrons complained about it. Target made a reasonable request that isn't necessarily in line with their posted policy trying to appease those people(regardless of whether they should have just shut the fuck up and dealt with it, which they should have), and the lady created a vendetta out of it. She's spent the last two years camping Target stores to find out if they go with the posted policy or not and making a shitfit out of each time an employee doesn't follow it exactly.

Again my issue is acting like it's some sort of civil liberty on par with voting rights or equal opportunity employment, it's not.

[Tyche]

I don't think sending 8 workers to surround a patron is reasonable at all. Maybe my standards are too high.

[Callisto]

She's lucky she didn't get tazed. #OccupyTarget