I want to be sitting at a restaurant.
Nursing my baby.
Drinking my fancy cup of coffee.
Eating my danish.
Reading my National Geographic.
Minding my own business.
I want the manager to approach me.
Tell me that I need to "cover up".
Or leave.
I want to whip out my iPhone and show that manager it is well within my legal right to nurse my baby while I read my magazine, drink my coffee and eat my danish inside his restaurant.
I want to stand up for nursing mothers and let him know our babies can drink their mama's milk wherever they damn well please.
I want to go to The Leaky B@@b and let other mamas know I was harassed.
I want to hear collective wisdom.
I want to hear anecdotes.
I want to organize a nurse-in.
I want to spread the word of my nurse-in far and wide.
I want newspapers.
I want news crews.
I want publicity.
I want mamas.
I want babies.
I want toddlers.
Could we even be so lucky to have a few tandem nurslings in the crowd?
I want to inundate that restaurant.
I want to show the manager and other patrons that breastfeeding is normal.
Not obscene.
Yep.
I want to be harassed.
6 comments:
If you do get harassed, I want to watch- bc I think that would be quite a show!
What?! Where? City Bagel?
Elizabeth, I'll make sure to give you a call before I get harassed ;)
Alisha, I *want* to be. I wasn't. And, the likelihood is low since City Bagel is the only place I frequent and I'm pretty sure nobody cares about me nursing there......
But, if I was, I would expect you to be at my nurse-in.
You're right, sometimes it takes a real revolution to make changes to cultural attitudes!
Sylvia, maybe I need to think bigger.....a nurse-in seems like small change next to a revolution....a revolution sounds much better :)
;)
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