So many ways to attack women, so little time

delegar has really covered the waterfront in her analysis of the current rants against public breast-feeding. Every few years, this subject gets knocked around, and the same "horrified" people make the same stupid comments about it.

A few years ago, I read an essay in which the author said she didn't understand why we seek privacy to perform bodily elimination processes, but we will eat in front of anyone. She had a point, especially when you consider the disgusting eating habits of many people. I wonder, for instance, how many people who criticize nursing mothers are the same people who pick their teeth in public (and why do some "restaurants" continue to offer toothpicks?).

I am tired of seeing men adjust themselves in public (if you have seen Whoopi Goldberg's stand-up routine on this, you are laughing at the very thought of it), and even tireder of seeing younger men simply grasping themselves in public. I am tired of watching men in muscle shirts and three dozen neck chains sqeeze the buttocks of their bleach-blonde girlfriends while they are waiting in line at the movies.

I am tired of seeing women scream at and hit their babies in public. If we had half the uproar over that as we do over breast-feeding, we might be able to do something about this country's epidemic of child abuse and subsequent violence.

And finally, if men had breasts, public breast-feeding would be a virtue.