Men need to take one for the team sometimes...
I think William Luse has the definitive post regarding public breastfeeding. The controversy is not about women, it's really about men. And it's not about men so much as their....willy. Works for me.
Every day I happen to drive by huge billboard (it's only a few miles out of my way - joke!) depicting a woman, naked but for her skin. She's obviously pregnant, and is supporting her belly with one hand and hiding her breasts with her other hand (her hand is large! You can tell they selected the model with some precision). From her belly button protrudes a cigarette, with smoke coming out of it. The message? "If you smoke, your baby smokes".
Obviously there is a public good served here. An anti-smoking message for the pregnant mom. There is also a good served in breastfeeding a baby, providing a baby the best nutritionally, without all the pumps and such. And given the remarkable discreteness now possible in clothing made for breastfeeding, I don't see how that can be a problem unless the woman is an exhibitionist, which, in nursing moms at least, seems pretty rare.
Update: Another definitive post, if that's not oxymoronic.
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