Breast feeding in the golf club. Would you.

[Tashyboy]

Read an article in the Sun today ( so it must be true) that three women have been banned from a golf club for commenting on another mother who was breast feeding in the clubhouse.
the three women in question were rather elderly and it seems rather unkind with some of there comments.

seems said breastfeeding mother did not have to milk it to get any sympathy.

 

[virtuocity]

What club?

 

[Jacko_G]

Obviously made a right tit of themselves for the club to ban them!

 

[One Planer]

Would I? No!





I much prefer the daily chef special

 

[Oxfordcomma]

There are obvious comments to be made here about the bar staff in some golf clubs and whether or not ... but let's not go there.

There's a non-Sun version here: http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...-mother-put-them-off-their-food-10398519.html

Sounds like the comments weren't great, but nothing that would have needed more than a reprimand. But two of the golfers concerned have quit the club in protest at there being an investigation at all?! The voice of reason seems to be from the club itself which is saying "Like anyone, Mrs Nutting is innocent until proven guilty. We are just following club procedures and those of the English Golf Union."

On the more general point, anyone offended by breastfeeding needs to remember that we were all babies once! And also needs to stop for a second and weigh up the two options available here, screaming baby vs woman feeding baby. I absolutely support the right of a woman to breastfeed wherever and whenever she feels comfortable doing it.

 

[Pants]

Personally I've never really experienced any problems with it.

If anything, it's other women who seem to create a fuss. Men seem to be fascinated by it - maybe they imagine themselves in the baby's position ................:mmm::mmm:

 

[SocketRocket]

Biddy!

 

[backwoodsman]

Simply couldn't/wouldn't happen at our place. Wrong demographic. We're short of ladies who are in the right age range.

 

[virtuocity]

"I am a mother and grandmother and have nothing against breastfeeding. It is about decorum. She could have turned her back to us or gone in the locker room for some privacy."

This is the comment that will see her suspension upheld. Idiot. I'm sure if she hasn't heard of the Equality Act 2010, she will soon.

 

[Green Bay Hacker]

'It was a storm in a teacup really'. Shouldn't that be a storm in a D cup?

 

[ScienceBoy]

Who complained about who?

Quite a relevant subject for me in view of next month.

There is nothing wrong with taking offence to something, that is quite natural and draws the boundaries we need. Thing is social boundaries change just as much as people can.

Quite often little stories like this, so called "storm in teacup" are just part of a bigger picture about social change. Here we seem to have three parties, all who have to make a decision and all who have an opinion. As long as the mother is thick skinned enough then the club has the hardest position.

I am very much going to help my wife as she encounters a wide variety of views. In reality we don't shut new mothers away, they are people who just want to get on with their social lives who just happen to have a little baby who relies on them.

 

[User20205]

It's feeding a child. Anyone who is offended by it, or sees it as anything
else has some fairly major issues

The 3 women in question are idiots

 

[hovis]

My wife has just stopped breast feeding our 7 month old daughter and she did in public . Imo breast feeding in a adult environment such as a golf club is fine. We're all grown ups aren't we?

I do think its a little inappropriate to brest feed around children and families.

Its not the feeding that is the problem its the obvious pulling out of a boob in public. Some women make a point of making it obvious . However, my wife took a more subtle approach and wore one of those scalf thingy's

 

[c1973]

If the comment was made within their own group and not toward the mother breast feeding I don't see how they have breached the equality act tbh. No doubt in this 'offended by everything' age we live in they will have done though.

If a comment has been overheard, then maybe she should have been minding her own business and not listening to them. No?



Breastfeeding is natural and doesn't bother me in the slightest, but we should remember that some may find it uncomfortable to witness. They're entitled to say so imo, as long as it's within their own company and not directed at whoever is breastfeeding.

But, again, in the name of equality and understanding it appears there is no understanding for the others view. Could the woman breastfeeding not have said 'look, I'm sorry if you felt uncomfortable, but Tarquin here was hungry and is being breastfed'. Pretty sure, that would have been a better way to go than grassing them up.

 

[Tashyboy]

I don't know what it is about some elderly people, I do say SOME and I do mean ELDERLEY. In that I definately include my mother. But they seem to have this idea that to be loud and opinionated is the norm. It's not big and it's not clever.
if I said things as a kid like my mother says now I would of had a crack around the Ear ole.
I get the impression that this was three elderly members train of thought when sat in the clubhouse.? Feeding off one another's comments.
anyway as much as it made me smile, I was shaking my head at the same time.
if me mum came home whinging about what she had seen and said, I would of reminded her it was 2015 and a lot of women's bras were burnt so said breast feeding mother could Unclip hers.
re the club being in a difficult position, I would suggest that they could well be smiling. Members like that contribute nothing to a club/ game that is struggling to attract members. They are well shut of them.

 

[paddyc]

I certainly don't have a problem with a woman whpping them out in public

 

[Pin-seeker]

Maybe a bit of jealousy from the 3 women in question as their breasts probably look like the old dears on Someting About Mary.

 

[North Mimms]

Two of the women concerned are /were Ladies captain and competition secretary.
*shakes head

 

[Sweep]

In these times of declining participation in golf, I'd be signing the baby up for the junior section.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Seems sad that these women hold/held office in the club and are so out of touch with modern times. If there was a society or do on, I can see how a polite 2would you mind doing that in the locker room" may have been a better solution but to just come out and be as rude and crass as they were is very sad