Is it National “I Hate Breastfeeders Day” Again?
Because I thought it was National De-lurking Week. You know, where you come out of hiding to say hello to the writers whose blogs you lurk upon but never leave comments. I’d love it if people would delurk but hey…no pressure :)
So…you’re probably wondering about I Hate Breastfeeders Day. Well, I only asked because I got three obnoxious comments today on older posts about breastfeeding and two, both from the same person, were extremely antagonistic and bizarre.
This could be a joke but I replied via email and they still haven’t bounced back so the email address used by “Sean” is valid and thus it’s possible this person is serious, as well as ignorant and crazy. Either way it takes a hell of a nerve to post such a diatribe. It’s just too bad the loser doesn’t have a blog he’d like to share with us.
I’ve posted this nutbar’s priceless comments below so you can behold the madness for yourself…
Wackotastic comment # 1 from “Sean” of Hayward, California, copied verbatim:
Hi…i just wanna say that i happen to be 100%against breastfeeding in public, i find this act to be revolting and sexually obscene. Public breastfeeding is a primative behaviour which shows that we are not much different than Animals, we as a society needs to stop abandoning common sense that public breastfeeding is indecent behaviour and quit looking at this whole issue as womens rights political correctness Bull****. The trouble with our society is that its too liberal, we live in a liberal free society that teaches us as a new generation to be rude and impolite and to make it ok to be rude and impolite which is what public breastfeeding is. A liberal society is miseducating a new generation to socially accept this indecent, lowclass, primative behaviour to where we are becoming more like ignorant savages and plus lose a civilized society with no moral values. These liberal womens rights lactivist are doing everything they can to indoctrinate a new generation in the 21th century of the bad ways which we should look at as social mores. Lactivist are a poison to this country and they set a bad example for all breastfeedingstay-at-home-moms, the ideal traditional conservative breastfeeding mother, usually stays at home with her children to breastfeed, or to show some class by breastfeeding her baby in a restaurant bathroom to show some honor and respect for all restaurant customers.
Any women who has class would do that, public breastfeeding needs to be banned in all 50 states to make America a decent more civilized country with good moral values since the pilgrims came out here. Public indecent exposure such as breastfeeding in public is eroding our society, which is contributing this moral breakdown in our society. A society who believes in manners and decency would and can make a difference by signing petitions to have laws passed to make public indecent exposure illegal such as public breastfeeding by getting involved in the Republican convention. Public breastfeeding is a ugly, shameful, dirty, sexually explicit act that makes all women look bad and makes the ideal traditional conservative breastfeeding mother look bad.
Public indecent exposure is whats hurting the moral fabrics of America’s values , because it used to be at one time or a nother that breastfeeding was done behind closed doors and remained a mystery. People knew about breastfeeding back in the 1920’s, 1930’s, 1940’s, 1950’s and 1960’s era, it just wasnt veiwed out in public to push it in our face sort of thing which gave women a sense of dignity, decency and class. I dont have a problem at all with breastfeeding or nursing in public, i only support nursing in public, but only with the acception of a babybottle, just not THERE KIND of nursing in public of how Lactivist want it to be as an arrogant push-it-in-your-face-boobs sort of attitude. Like i already said before, lactivist dont set good examples for every breastfeeding women out there, they are bad role models for every idealistic conservative, traditional stay-at-home breastfeeding mother out there. Lactivist are hateful (make-trouble-for-you-people) bunch of scumbag militant groups that have really made a big embarrasment for all decent breastfeeding mothers out there and made a big embarrasment for themselves. These nurse-in-mother lactivist need to be repelled from our society and deserve a shot of pepper spray in there eyes for making business hard for Delta company when they sit around with no life to hold up signs for a big demonstration all because some lowclass trash like Emily Gillette couldnt take responsibilitys for her actions to use discretion or to take it to a bathroom. Public breastfeeding does tend to creepout restaurant-store customers and also makes business look bad, it gives a restaurant-store establishment a bad image. Women should feel a sense of shame, embarrasment, awkwardness and feeling out of place before doing something discraceful like that. If our screwy liberal government and senators are having legislation passed to have public indecent exposure such as public breastfeed legal just about anywhere including the workforce, how long will it be till laws are being passed to urinate-defacate in public. In france its perfectly legal to urinate in public and could very well be like that in America with the rate of socially accepting public breastfeeding to be a social norm
Wackotastic comment # 2 from “Sean” of Hayward, California, copied verbatim:
Public breastfeeding does bounce around completely unrestrained, offending much of the world. As a conservative that i am, all i’m asking for public breastfeeding mothers out there to use dignity and politeness when breastfeed your baby. Breastfeeding should be a private matter between the mother and child like taking it to a bathroom, a car or a lounging room where its out of the way of others. Natural bodily functions such as public breastfeeding should not be shared with the rest of the public because then its no longer a private matter between the mother her child, it pretty much makes it my business and everyone elses business
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If you want to read these comments in context, visit the original post and scroll all the way down. As of right now, “Sean” has posted the last two comments.
I’m debating over whether to forward any comments I receive to Sean via email or if I should just post his address and everyone can just tell him directly how they feel about his anti-woman, anti-mother, anti-child, anti-human drivel.
Your thoughts on Sean’s comments?
Not that I am a lurker, but hello! I am reading.
What the hell is that guy’s problem?
I am de-lurking!
What is up with that person. I know that everyone feels different about breastfeeding and they have that right. Each person is comfy with different things, but why do you have to come down on someone! Wow! And the sexual comment? Wow…. Very very extreme and harsh… wow
Well, you know, Sean has a point: I understand that before the pilgrims came, public breastfeeding was rampant.
I think that wackotastic is the only word that can be applied here. Holy crap.
I am PROUD to tell you, Mr. Wacko, and all your other readers that I breastfed both my children. My daughter weaned herself at 16 months. My son after having dwindled down to 1/day finally quit nursing at 20 mo.
I would nurse them, in public, but I would cover their little heads, and my breast, with a clean, cloth diaper, or a receiving blanket, or something. I nursed them at my home when there were other people there. I nursed them in my parents’ home, I nursed them in restaurants, in the nursery [what an appropriate name that is] at Church.
What Mr. Wacko needs to realize is that bathrooms are positively CRAWLING with germs! It’s not always feasible to retreat with your child to an automobile either; say in the winter in a Northern-tier state, ot in the Summer in a Southern state. During a thunderstorm in any state wouldn’t be a good time in any state.
Mr. Wacko needs to get a grip on his bottle-fed self and get over it! Nursing is not only a wondrous bonding experience for Mother and Child, it gives the child a great boost in their little immune systems in the first months of life, provides all the nutrients they need, at the correct temperature, doesn’t cause constipation, and my kids never needed a pacifier!
BTW, they are 26 and 24 now and really GREAT adults!
Obviously, your Whackotastic label is perfect. I’m just here to de-lurk. I love your site. But you know that. :-)
I will fall back on Mr Stapler’s comment: “It’s just someone EATING, for goodness sake. Get over it.”
What a nut job. But how did he find an old post of yours to have his whacko rant on? That’s what I’d be worried about!
De-lurking to say I love your blog and found you through Jennster. I completely agree with everyone above me….Sean is a complete nutjob. He could also use some help with simple grammar. :) And, I think I might have to start using the word “wackotastic.” You rock.
izzy, me thinks this person is just bulls**ting. seriously. i didn’t finish reading their full rant, but my gut feeling is it’s a joke to them. probably some college kid in the midst of his persuasive argument section in public speaking.
If that’s the case, they’re going to fail. This is hardly persuasive.
De-lurking too ;)
I’m a proud breastfeeder (still am, too). I’m not sure about this guy. cameo could be right, he may be grandstanding because he can, or he has a serious issue. Either way, it comes across really sad.
I’m a proud breastfeeder as well. Next time Sean’s in a restaurant, I’d love someone to send him to sit on the shitter to eat his meal. He can enjoy it while our children eat in the dining room. What a serious dick.
What a loony. Why does it seem to be a prerequisite for ranting arch-conservatives to have poor grammar and spelling?
The comments above about the hygiene of feeding in a public toilet hit the nail on the head. Which is more animalistic behaviour? And if Sean finds the sight of a mother discreetly breastfeeding ’sexual’, then I think he’s the one with the disgraceful problem.
Ahh, conservative christians. What would life be like without them…(wait for it)…Perfect!
De-lurker here. I’m relatively new to this whole Blogger Mommy thing, but am loving it!
OMG! lets ask Sean how he would feel if he was starving and his only source of food would not be readily available- since it could possibly offend someone- Oh and make sure that all he could do to let anyone know that he was starving would be to cry -what an asshole- breastfeeding is natural and normal and anyone who is offended by it- or ridiculously thinks that it is immodest or sexual is a total pervert and needs to look into themselves for thier own issues on sooo many levels- what a freeking MORON!
Hey, Izzy - I just noticed your new header. I totally agree, you Aztec princess.
I think Sean might be desperate for attention.
Homeboy “Sean” seems to have a lot of free time on his hands. Why not publish his e-mail address so every wife, mother and child can send him a few of their thoughts!
Hi Izzy! Delurking here. What can I say about this guy but OMG!!!!!
I am not a breastfeeder myself but I am totally pro breastfeeding if you choose. This guy is ridiculous. I chose not to breastfeed for personal reasons but I think that it is a wonderful and natural thing to do that IS NOT and WILL NEVER be primitive or savage. This guy is a real nutcase.
Delurking to say “I love your blog” and “that guy is nuts”!!!
my take on this guy?
his mommy and daddy messed him up good.
he probably still thinks that if he touches himself he will go blind and his palms will be hairy.
A few thoughts:
1. I didn’t realize that “the pilgrims came out here.” Quite the double entendre!
2. I find bad grammar and paragraph structure far, FAR more offensive than breasts.
De-lurking to tell you that I’m jealous that you get all the good wackos. Okay, not actually a lurker. :)
I think maybe that guy should take his food into a restaraunt bathroom and eat it if he feels that is an appropriate place to feed someone.
my thoughts on sean?
sean=ass.
huge ass.
Did he actually compare public urination to breastfeeding? I seriously think he is completely insane.
Oh. My. God.
It’s taking all my willpower not to actually write on the computer screen with my red sharpie. Dude, spell-check. Look into it.
Apparently that one, single lactivist he keeps mentioning sure gets around - she’s a regular one person women’s movement!
De-lurking! I am a “conservative Christian” and hate that this wacko has been labeled that way. I don’t think he can possibly be for real; it has to be some kind of joke. Feeding a baby in a public restroom is disgusting, and being a prisoner at home for the first year or more of each of your children’s life is impractical. I have no problem discreetly nursing my one year old wherever we may be, and I have never received a negative comment or look of any kind.
You know what drives me insane???? That so many of these nut-jobs bring politics into it. I nursed my first baby for 14.5 months and just finished with the second at 15 months. I nursed in public. I didn’t flaunt it but I didn’t hide it either. I am ALSO a conservative REPUBLICAN stay-at-home Mom. Since when is breastfeeding about politics. Sean is so stupid on so many levels. Bring on the email address-maybe my blood pressure would drop if I could tell him myself that he’s making Republicans look bad and that he perhaps deserves a shot of pepper spray to the eyes or perhaps a swift kick to his stupid ass.
Not exactly a delurk as I have commented before ……..
Does this **** know how unsanitary toilets/restrooms are? There is a reason why we don not all eat in toilets.
Ya and this guy probably watches porn, acts like a pig in bars hounding women who want nothing to do with him and he sits there and says bf is rude. Riiiiiiiiiight. ‘Sean’ needs to get a life.
Jackass. His mother obviously doesn’t love him.
I’m betting he was breastfed.
And he has mommy issues.
Publish his address. We’ll collectively re-educate him.
And thanks Izzy. Because I needed a damn good laugh this morning.
Oh, wait, maybe I should thank the nutjob, Sean, himself!
Wow, all I can say is he’s mighty gutsy to leave that many words on a blog with his address attached. :) Usually those kinds of comments are anonymous–which is why when I see an “anonymous” attached to a comment I always find myself taking a breath before reading, I’m anticipating someone’s fury.
Week going good? Thanks for all your visits, it’s just so darn flattering! :)
Sexually obscene? Hoooo boy. Has this guy ever seen a nipple that’s been used for continuous breastfeeding? Nothing sexual about that, obscene or otherwise.
Tell SEAN to go eat his dinner in the bathroom and see how it feels…disgusting.
I have nothing against breastfeeding, and I didn’t know about Delurking Week, but I do know that next week is “Leave Money At My Blog Week” ;-)
Hmmm. It takes all kinds. What a Turd Ferguson.
Suckassiness. Good word.
Yes, I’m a lurker. So here’s a post in light of the “De-lurk” holiday. (Absolutely. Love. Your blog.)
Hi! Delurking!
(I’d say ignore “sean”. I think he just wants attention. Also, I’d delete his comments. If he wants to see his words in print, he should pay for his own bandwith.)
How much would you like to bet he wasn’t breastfed as a child?
I comment sometimes, lurk a lot….
and WTF DUDE! Yeah, you’re absolutely right, feeding your children the way God intended is rude and impolite….
I can’t even fathom the way some people think….
Yawn, did anybody really read ALL of this crap? What an idiot, he should lock himself up in a room if he is so easily offended.
The thing is, people don’t change, ever, so there is really no point in trying to educate him, just ignore him.
Maybe we should take up a collection and buy Sean a blanket so he can cover his head to avoid the “boobs in his face”. :rolls eyes:
Love your blog, BTW…
I was just jumping in to reiterate that “wacko nutjob” does not always equal conservative Christian. I am a conservative Christian and still think Sean is wacked. It’s not Christians who think mothers shouldn’t breastfeed in public - it’s closed-minded morons. Breastfeeding sexual? Not in most people’s worlds.
The twenty minute long Girls Gone Wild commercial with nothing but tiny little, black lines covering the bare minimum is fine, but breastfeeding in public is indecent? What is wrong with our society?
Mel
Somebody needs to whip out a boob and squirt him in the eye.
Those damn liberals and their freedoms… you know, like the freedom to nourish one’s children. Damn liberals. o.O
How about those damn ’sean’s’ who think breastfeeding is SEXUAL!
WTF, Dude?! Wackotastic is right.
Not really delurking, but somewhat delurking, since I read all the time and only comment sporadically.
My nipples can shoot across the room - I volunteer to squirt him in the eyes. I can even hit both at once. There’s a reason my 2 month old is 13.5 pounds. And he will never eat in the bathroom.
OMG!
BRITNEY?!?!
Is that YOU?!?!?!
Izzy, OMG like totally for sure I think BRITNEY just delurked and commented on your blog! I think you like totally got her attention.
I have to admit, though, that I couldn’t read past:
“The trouble with our society is that its too liberal, we live in a liberal free society…A liberal society is miseducating a new generation …”
Sorry Brit…you lost me at miseducating people in a liberal liberal-free society.
Oops, added comment too fast.
I was simply making good on my prediction that Britney was going to overtake Lindsey Lohan next—now that Paris fell—via wackotastic (so in ym vocabulary now) incoherent rambling letters to the press.
You are clearly a supahstah to be the recipient. I think Lohan went to a newspaper.
I’m delurking to say that I would like to kick Sean in square in his teeny tiny balls. Seeing as I’m so barbaric and all.
I for one happen to think “Sean” is right. Off his medication. And an asshat who is in need of a swift kick in the groin area. I’d invite him to wear a bag on his head at all times lest his delicate sensibilities be offended at the sight of a kid eating.
sometimes canada looks really good to me…
Maybe Sean works for Delta Airlines?
Personally, I agree that we should move breastfeeding to restaurant bathrooms.
And move defecation to the middle of the restaurant. Preferably at Sean’s table.
I’m also trying to figure out the real deal…clearly he was googling breastfeeding or something and ended up here. But I find it interesting that he uses the british “ou” (behaviour, etc) and is talking about what’s wrong with the US. Something doesn’t jive…
Yes, Mom101 is right! Let’s all go eat in the bathroom, and pee into troughs in the middle of the restaurant! If we’re going to be, what did Sean call it? Oh, right, “ugly, dirty, shameful and sexually explicit”, then let’s do THAT in public too! I had NO IDEA that “all breastfeedingstay-at-home-moms, the ideal traditional conservative breastfeeding mother, usually stays at home with her children to breastfeed, or to show some class by breastfeeding her baby in a restaurant bathroom to show some honor and respect for all restaurant customers.” It is SO CLASSY to breastfeed a baby while hunched over a filthy restaurant toilet! Thanks, Sean, for setting us straight.
Do you think it’s an elaborate joke? Many of the talking points sound familiar, but it’s so poorly argued (and written).
I’m a guy, and I’m here to say I have no problem with public display of breasts.
Does that help?
My first thought in reading the comment was “Borat? Here at Izzy’s blog! Wow!”
Wow, he spent a lot of time writing those out. Do they not let the nutjobs in the crazy house watch TV anymore? Is he forced to post random messages on people’s blogs instead?
What a stupid little man.
Not even going to go there with that guy….
Let’s just stick to the de lurking…. I absolutely love Izzy… Place your comments on Lizzy’s site she is a blogger extrodinaire!!!!
Who-ee! I can’t wait until I get one of these freaks in person in a few months. Or do people not have the nerve to say stuff like this to your face?
Hmmm…yeah. Could possibly be an attention grabber, or could be disgustingly real. Either way, this is what I have to say: How bout you cover your mouth when you eat while you’re in the restaurant, better yet, go to the bathroom with your plate and lock yourself in there, having to watch you eat-god, it’s so disgusting. Or maybe put a blanket over your head so we don’t have to see you eat.
Sound extreme?
also, this doesnt make sense:
The trouble with our society is that its too liberal, we live in a liberal free society that teaches us as a new generation to be rude and impolite and to make it ok to be rude and impolite which is what public breastfeeding is.
As does the rest of his drivel.
Whatever.
Just want to add too, breastfeeding isnt political, yet people make it political. so unneccessary.
” People knew about breastfeeding back in the 1920’s, 1930’s, 1940’s, 1950’s and 1960’s era”
I think he is hallucinating and is orally fixated. Must be that his mother didn’t nurse him long enough and now he has anger issues about it.
What a fareeeeeeak!
This poor man was obviously not breast fed. He is obviously an unhappy person and never got the love and nourishment as a child that breastfeeding gives. Poor soul!
Yeah, I think that same idiot commented on my blog a few weeks back. Same type stuff. I deleted it. If someone wants to try and put together an intelligent argument against NIP, I don’t mind giving them some space on my site, heck, I’ll even engage them in debate.
But when you turn into nothing more than a ranting lunatic…well…my response is buh-bye!
Oh yeah, and delurking. ;)
That is the most bizarre rambling piece of crap I’ve seen in a while! And since we all know breastfeeding is good for brain development… I’m guessing he wasn’t breastfed.
um maybe just ignore them b/c dude sounds like a serious whack job that doesn’t deserve your time.
Can I please, please, please, please have his email so I can show him my engorged boobs? Please. Please. Please.
I think Sean wasn’t breastfed as a baby and has issues with his mother about it.
;)
Would this twit of a man rather hear a baby scream in public because he / she is hungry?
It is idiotic attitudes like that, that intimidated me enough not to breastfeed my little one in public. Luckily where I live there are usually parents rooms in shopping centres where you can freely breastfeed without any drama.
If he doesn’t like it, don’t look at it!
I just think poor Sean wasn’t breastfed as a child. That and he doesn’t anyone in his life to ove him or his “conservative” views. :( He has to take it out on someone so he’s taking it out on you.
Sean, are you out there? We mommies are not breastfeeding to turn you on or to provoke anyone. We breastfeed our babies in order to …are you ready for this?…feed them. That’s all there is to it. Please Sean, if you see something that truly offends you, just look away and don’t judge. You’ll be a much happier person and women will like you better. Maybe someday, you’ll even have a girlfriend of your very own.
Think about it Sean a real live girlfriend just for you!
Then you won’t feel the need to pick on us nursing ladies.
Bless your heart.
One of my NY’s resolutions was to attempt to only have nice things to say……Sean is reaaaally testing me :)
Anyhoo, delurking to say Hello !!
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xoxo
Sill
Delurking to say that I think this is the blogging equivalent of a prank call. But did you ever notice that people from the Church of Perpetual Outrage (no matter what their actual religion) always want to lay the “morality” of a society in the lap of women.
De-lurking ;)
Figures that this comment would come from a man.
I never understood the “offensiveness” of boobs. They pay to see them at a strip club and that’s not offensive; but seeing them be used for what they were intended, we’re being barbaric, rude and impolite. Please. Get your head out of yer arse.
WOW! Sounds like this guy has a serious Oedipus complex happening! I proudly breastfed all 3 of my babies…and in public. The only time I ever made the effort to find another room or private place was when they hit the lovely active age of NOT wanting to have a blanket over their head.
I’d be willing to bet that this shmuck was ::gasp:: breastfed in public by his very own mother.
Or maybe he was born mature enough to mix his own bottles of formula.
You have to wonder about a man’s motivation when he’s so willing to sit down at the computer, google liberal breastfeeders, read through a site to find out if the person is pro or con, and then write a long-winded comment about it. That’s dedication to a cause. Now, if we could only focus that sort of dedication onto something that is actually any of his business . . .
Hey, I’m just a SOMETIMES lurker. ‘Cause SOMETIMES I actually comment.
I have to say, OH the irony! I’ve been behind in my reading here (OH so behind at work due to the holidays), but the Mama Drama ladies were kind enough to let me guest post, and I touched on this subject.
http://blogs.chron.com/mamadrama/archives/2007/01/and_now_the_mom.html
Mainly, I’ve been shocked at how mean moms can be to each other about this subject, but this guy really creeps me out!!! Stephanie A. is right: he seems really disturbed.
And I’m sure he’s not alone. That’s the sad part.
All the more reasons for moms to support each other and the choices we make for our families.
We got your back here, GIRL!!!
So were these folks writing from the Victorian Era?
I would love to have seen a link to his blog or his email at the end of his rant. Perhaps a little disclaimer going forward would be called for, (evilgrin) that any and all comments once sent to you are your property and you can publish what you see fit, anon or otherwise. (smirk)
Unbelievable, i think this guy has a real problem with breasts and their natural use. Get a life for goodness sake.
All 5 of my children were breastfed and i am still breastfeeding my 2 yr old, and if i happen to be out in public then yes of course i will give her some milk. I think the problem for a lot of people is the fact that the milk comes from a breast and not the socially accepted artificial bottle form.
And as for being sexually explicit! well that’s just laughable,
come on guy, get yourself sorted out! Has sombody warned him about top shelf magazines, he’s gonna have a bit of a shock. Hey if you have a problem with public breastfeeding then my answer is quite simple really, turn the other way, or move yourself!!
I wonder if Sean will change his mind, if he knows that giving very pre-term babies breast milk could saves their lives. And how would he feel if he was a father of one? I am pretty sure he would do a complete u-turn.