To understand why nurse-in protests are necessary

Following is a smattering of the responses to a news article about the Kentucky mom who was ejected for not covering up her baby and breast while breastfeeding. This is the country I'm bringing a little girl into.

Responses to Mom pushes Applebee's on breast-feeding news article in Lexington Herald-Leader

Wednesday Aug 29
Breast feeding should be a private thing, not a public thing. I breast fed my children, but would never have breast fed in front of strangers. How rude!

Wednesday Aug 29

i thank thay she has went just a little to far i am a women and i dont wont to see another women breast feeding her baby when i am eating.

Wednesday Aug 29
you simply have poor taste to believe anyone other than you want to see your breast exposed for the world to see. Grow up, come to reality. The year in which you live has nothing to do with a lack of self respect or dignity as a human being.

If exposing your breast was not appropriate in the 1950's it is not appropriate in 2007. It is called indescent exposure and is against the law.

As well as if you were a man in need of relieving his bladder in the middle of a parking lot, in light of day. I certianly would not want a daughter to see that, anymore than I would want my young son to see your breast.

Wednesday Aug 29

A man will be a man and they will stare and probably get turned on. Isn't she concerned about maybe getting carjacked and raped while her children look on?

Wednesday Aug 29
Maybe she gets turned on by doing this in public.
I heard from woman that breast feeding is a very satisfying experience.

Wednesday Aug 29
my wife only breast feeds at home, when were alone.

Wednesday Aug 29
I think some women just like to show their breast. Bless the women that still have some modesty left.

Thursday Aug 30
I don't think women who expose their breast in a public place think of the potential dangers they maybe putting themselves or their children in.

Friday Aug 31
In todays society a man or lesbian may just get a raging hard-on that they would not be able to suppress.
This is reality otherwise I have no problems with it.
Besides, you are stereotyping HillBillys as backwards and I'm proud to be a HillBilly in Tennessee, can't trust a Yankee to say or do the right thing.
Since you Yankees are for homosexuality what's going to happen when a gay man trys to breast feed an adopted infant in a restaurant when he acts out his fantasy of being a woman?

Friday Aug 31
If she or any other woman chooses to breast feed, that is fine, however she could have just as easily pumped her milk, bottled it, fed the baby, no problems. Isn't technology amazing.

Although breast feeding is best for the baby, perhaps those who do should stop and think whether or not a room full of strangers want to see their boobs.....pump, bottle, feed. Too simple, and makes way too much sense...

Friday Aug 31
Another idea for you. Feed the baby before you go out for dinner. Better yet, get a babysitter. Breastfeeding should not be done in public. The fact that a baby is attached does not change the fact that it is still an exposed breast. How a woman sits there and breastfeeds in public is beyond me. Good for Applebee's.

Friday Aug 31
With all these toxins and steroids a person consumes I would have thought that baby formula would be a whole lot safer than a women's milk.

Friday Aug 31
I will never get use to breastfeeding in public. If you refuse to leave, I will leave. Again, good for Applebee's.

Friday
People need to get use to it as more and more women are choosing to breastfeed??. Yes, then we can go on further more by getting used to people urinating in public, then before you know it ejacucalting too. Hey i'm just making a point

Friday
to me this is down right disrespectful and selfish. I saw how this women lookedlike which i can see there were some complaints being made at Applebees restaurant. Of course nobody wants to see some fat nasty overweight repulsive looking women overly exposing those nasty flappers for the sake of breastfeeding

Friday
maybe your types are some kind of weird perverted exhibitionist! There are plenty of women who feed babies modestly, you dont need to waggle your sagging tits out in public just to prove a point- sounds like a bunch of feminazi housewives with nothing better to do! Arent there better causes out there?

Friday
your misleading and indoctrinating others to be backwards hillbillies in a sense where MANNERS, AND POLITENESS is being thrown out the window with your attitude. Ignorant stupid liberals like you sure get your kicks by miseducating people with your poor liberal values that we can just go and do something like this in the public eye. Yeah sure i mean lets have more and more Kates everybody, next thing you know we will be backward hillbillies if we dont want people to excercise there rights to have sex in public, masturbate in public or urinate by whipping your genitals where there are children around

Friday
there maybe children around, are you that ignorant, this type of behaviour is giving out a little too much information to kids more than they need to know. I'll tell you what is wrong with seeing a womens breast in public, its indecent, and theres nothing worse than having to see a boob being sucked on by a 13lbs ball of human flesh ok!!!. Yeah lets all go by your same liberal perverted logic Kate, what is wrong with seeing a male p*nis in public or a vagina??

Friday
Maybe no one wanted to see her SAGGY dried up tit flaps, shes had 8 kids, probably breast fed them all...im sure the tits arent too nice to see if youre trying to eat! Unless youre at a Pancake house!. Damn scuzzy Michael Moore loving liberals i swear

Friday
MES AND BENEATH A MAN. WE AS WOMEN HAVE A VOICE AND A CHOICE. " No Anna, YOU as women either have a choice to hold lower standards as women by going out of the house to breastfeed, or choose to be good stay-at-home housewives like your supposed to be. Your job is to stay at home like the little decent LADY that your supposed to be and have dinner on the table before your husbund gets home from work. This is why women nowadays have such lower standards, because hatefilled breastfeeding NAZI FEMINIST like Anna enabled women 37 years ago to go and do whatever they wanted to. By doing this, it has taken women off that pedastal which means that women are being degraded and are in the same levels as men thanks to the womens rights liberation NAZI'S. Besides, its not a good idea to bring a newborn baby under 12 months of age outdoors all the time which means they dont have a strong immune system and are susceptable to colds and flues. Newborn infants belong at home under 12 months of age at all cost due to airborn sicknesses being passed around outside by patrons. A newborn should not be exposed to a lot of outside until after 12 months. I see a lot of new mothers out with their baby's right after birth, the mother too should wait until the 12 months is over to rejoin the world on the outside. So lets not thrown the baby out with the bathwater and learn some good Ole fashion advice. The society in which we live has changed but mother nature hasn't.

Friday
This is a perfect example of why we dont allow this sh*t to go on and on in public veiw. Having to veiw some fat nasty B**** out of shape sagging tits is enough to slow down business and make people lose there appetite. This is why customers would much rather do there business elsewhere where people have some damn manners

Friday
I intend to look, in fact I intend to LEER.

If it makes hoochie uncomfortable, that's not my problem, I have every right to stare at someones bare breast. After all, why flaunt it if you don't want someone to see it?

Saturday
Actually I don't see anything wrong with this natural act but I would be concerned of the potential perverts lurking about.
I did not allow my wife to do it in the past for fear of drawing unwanted attention.

Saturday
Ide make a complaint to management to have her do that sh*t in her car, or have her be removed from property. I mean yeah sure if a women can pull this nasty act where there maybe patrons around, soon before you know it there will be a protest of angry diaper rights protest feminist just because one was asked to take it to a bathroom and got her feelings hurt

Yesterday
Can you imagine all the husbands getting beat up by their wives in the restaurant for looking?
Cause quite a bit of a disturbance when the husband should be focusing on his wife.

Yesterday
your comments are down right irresponsible. 99% of the time you can always prepare yourself inadvance like taking some privacy measures and having pumps ready at all times. Now whats so hard about that unless your looking for some attention that goes way beyond a hungry child. Its disrespectful and selfish when you only think about your silly precious rights and not think about others will complain about this sort of rude action that would not help but get an eyefull.

11 hrs ago
This is for you nursing mama, i find your comments very irresponsible which many of you breastfeeding rights nazi's tend to have more than 30 different copout excuses anyways. My sister all the time used to breastfeed my nephew in a bathroom so that way she had all the privacy she needed where it was out of the way of others just to be polite. If she didnt use a bathroom, she would excuse herself from the dinner table wether we had guest or not and use a bedroom or even a blanket for coverup as you say it gets hot for the baby. When my sister nursed my nephew with a socalled hot blanket nursing mama, why in the hell did my nephew not suffer from heat discompfort??. And if a baby is being discompforted by a blanket for coverup which we all know is bullsh*t anyways, why in the hell cant you make a damn trip to your vehicle where there is Air ?conditioning??, are you that lazy??. Believe me, there is no excuses why you should breastfeed your baby in public anymore than there is no excuses why you cant think of so many privacy options. During a grocery shopping excursion when nursing mothers need to go out shopping, one bottled filled with pumped breastmilk will not kill your baby nursing mama anymore than a whiff of second hand smoke will. What it lookslike here from after reading your post, it seems as though it doesnt seem that hard to do this rude inappropriate behaviour out in public veiw, but yet its hard to be more private about it. Your full of copout excuses nursing mama, which i can see you are looking for thrills more than making any sort of measures or effort to keep it from having patrons get an eyefull of how you raise your children

48 min ago
Breasts not sexy? OOOOHHH boy, what rock did you climb out from under?
Men and lesbos love 'em.

43 min ago
A man's instrument is natural too on impregnating a woman but I don't see any fornicating on the tables at a restaurant while I am trying to eat.