Reply #349: Oy, what a ridiculous country...

[IntravenousDemilo]

...where a breast is such a cause for alarm. It's no wonder we secretly snicker at you behind our sleeves. If it's not breastfeeding moms, it's Janet Jackson's ta-ta. The US mindset seems to be in a tug-of-war between puritanism and prurience, and I think the puritans have the dirtiest minds of all. Everything is all about (sex) and it's all so DIRTY!!! Basically, America has the personality of a 15-year-old boy when it comes to sex.

We used to be equally ridiculous up here in Canada, till we realized that it was unconstitutional to forbid women to go topless anywhere men could walk around with their shirts off. That attitude is just so much healthier, earthier, and more mature, less tarnished by frat-boy leering. Mind you, women still don't walk around with their tops off, even though they are legally able to. And that's the point. They can do so if they want, which is the important thing.

As for seeing women breastfeed in public, I got over that thirty years ago, once I got over my envy at having been bottle-fed.