Topsy- Turvy

Is it just me or is the world turned on its head and becoming more ridiculous?

It’s not just in America, either. I saw that in the UK, recently, a woman was in her own backyard, and not in easy view of others when she breastfed her baby. The neighbors objected and the husband knocked to tell her that her breastfeeding was making his wife sad because she couldn’t have a child.

My parents taught me to mind my own business, when I was a kid, and it’s a shame that the nosy neighbors weren’t taught to do the same.

The harassment had actually started well before the baby was born, when the neighbors would catch a glimpse of the woman’s pregnant belly and frown and go to hide themselves back in their home.

Since breastfeeding in public is LEGAL in the UK, I have to assume that it’s equally as legal in one’s own back yard, whether you rent or own your domicile. Oddly enough, public breastfeeding is also legal here in the US.

I say that it’s odd, because far too often, people harass moms when they see them breastfeeding in public.

That rule about minding one’s own business would have been appropriate here too, as well as the one that goes: If you can’t say something nice then keep you pie hole closed!

It’s also odd that we think of ourselves as progressive because we’ve made laws that protect a mother’s right to breastfeed her child in public considering that breasts were MADE for feeding our children and there are a lot of people in parts of…