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Breasts are awesome. But people who freak out over breasts and breast-feeding are ridiculous.

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[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

When I was riding the bus one afternoon, I was sitting in the disabled seating next to a young woman who was holding a very tiny infant, I'd say around one month, maaaybe two months old. The baby started whimpering, so the woman carefully and discreetly opened her blouse, pushed aside her bra, and began nursing the baby, who drank hungrily.
Across from me sat a middle-aged woman who gasped in horror and clapped her hands to her eyes. Occasionally she would peek from between her fingers, blush, and moan quietly. After a couple of minutes, she leaned over to where the driver was (her seat was behind the driver). And she loudly whispered, "That woman is breastfeeding! Make her stop!"
The driver had stopped at a red light. He turned and looked at the woman with raised eyebrows. He looked over at the young mother, still nursing. He said something in Spanish, and the mother replied. He replied back, and nodded. He looked at the offended woman, shrugged, and said, "Sorry. Baby's gotta eat."
And he turned back to the wheel and kept driving when the light turned green.
The baby finished eating. The young mother carefully put her blouse back together and settled back to burp the baby.
The horrified woman across from me kept her head down for the rest of the trip. Her fists were clenched in her lap.

Breasts are food receptacles attached to mammals. That's the fucking point. They also just happen to be an erogenous zone because they're sensitive because they're designed to be for babies. What the HELL, people?

[gwynethfar.livejournal.com]

I always tell people "They're SECONDARY sex characteristics. They're not GENITALS. They weren't made for SEX first and foremost."

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

EXACTLY.

You know, I once had a friend who was a professional dancer. She didn't have an ounce of fat on her body; she was completely muscle, due to years and years of various kinds of dancing. She had no breasts to speak of -- totally flat. She had nipples, and obviously mammary glands, but the actual breasts -- the lumps of fat and tissue -- were not visible. She and her husband had a powerful and fulfilling sex life, because guess what she had a vagina and a clitoris and labia!

[datajana2007.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

I get sick of hearing people saying "They're sexual ORGANS!!"

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

No kidding. They're not organs -- they are lumps of fat and tissue that contain glands that produce milk for offspring.