The Law of Breasts
In the context of an article about Virginia potentially exempting nursing mothers from jury duty, the author noted:
"Women nationwide are lobbying to expand and strengthen laws that make it easier to breast-feed. Thirty-four states have laws of some kind that affirm the right of mothers to breast-feed, many of them passed in the past 10 years, according to La Leche League International, an advocacy organization."
How depressing that laws are needed to facilitate breastfeeding! And how additionally demoralizing that I read about this at a Pandagon post, which featured the following commentary: "The only thing that worries me is that some Phyllis Schlafly clone is going to see the Spanish name of the group and brand it some sort of radical Hispanic breast-supremacist group encouraging liberal nipple fixation. I'm quite fixated on breasts enough without any activists' help, thank you very much." Sexual objectification of even nursing breasts is of course why women have to expend time and resources to "legalize" breastfeeding.
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