Keep Your Breasts Behind Locked Doors!
Exterior of Mamava freestanding pod for “privacy for pumping or breastfeeding.” It locks from inside, with a space larger than an airplane lavatory. Photo credit: Amy Stone.
En route from the illy coffee concession to the Virgin America boarding gates at Newark Airport, I spied the pod. With my cascading fears of a new administration’s erosion of women’s freedoms, I felt alarm. Will women feel pressured into never breastfeeding their babies publicly? Are breasts only for grabbing in public by men newly freed from restraint by a power-tripping president-to-be?
My bias in favor of female visibility and freedom is obvious. But I am not beyond fine-tuning. What about women from traditional backgrounds—Orthodox Jewish women, traditional Muslim women—might they welcome a privacy pod? Maybe I should slow down my rush to judgment, be a bit more sisterly.
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I’m for freedom of breastfeeding in public, but I’m afraid we need a constitutional amendment for it. But what about the right of the infant to be breastfed? Wilhelm Reich invented the idea of infant rights, but did not explain how they could be enshrined in law.
there were times 40 years ago when I would have desperately wanted a quiet place to nurse my children. I don’t know what was worse, my children would pulled my shirt up and wave at passers by or the nasty looks and comments from passers by. But what really has to happen is re education of men to see women as not sex objects, but as nurtures. one problem that also needs to be changed is the people who are are pro life need to become pro life AFTER birth.