Via the Women’s Rights blog at Change.org, a manager of a Johnny Rockets’ restaurant tried to make a woman who was breastfeeding do it outside on a bench or in the bathroom. As the writer, Sarah Menkedick, pointed out, this is just the most recent in a series of incidents in which breastfeeding women were shamed.
I’ve never been sure where this squeamishness over breastfeeding comes from, but as I’ve observed before, women who breast feed and women who don’t largely break along lines of education and class. No one wants to be bullied out of breastfeeding at a place like Johnny Rockets’ or Target, and have to get into big fights to exercise a basic right.
— Monica Potts
