‘Family values’ Republican: Men should be allowed to grab breastfeeding women’s nipples in public
I have been Republican my whole life (later update: I later left the Republicans and no longer belong to any political party), am not necessarily opposed to “family values” rhetoric per se, but stories like this make me cringe. It’s so hypocritical.
I believe one site said this guy also claims to be a Christian, or he claims to “love God”.
There is nothing “family values” or Christian about a man thinking it’s acceptable for men to grab women’s breasts in public.
I’m not too keen on women breastfeeding in public, but I fail to see how a woman doing so entitles any man to molest her, which is what this Republican politician was arguing on his Facebook page.
A breastfeeding woman’s body is hers, and it’s up to her to decide when, if, or how another person may touch her.
I don’t see how it logically follows that a woman exposing her breast to feed a baby equates to men being allowed to touch her chest.
That would be like saying the construction worker I saw whip his wang out in public to pee behind a house he was working on (he did not realize my friends and I were playing in the woods behind the homes, I was about age 12 at the time) would be permitted to run up and touch his johnson.
I at no time felt, “Gee, since this guy is taking his dick out in front of me to urinate into a bush, this therefore gives me the right to run up and fondle it.”
(Link): ‘Family values’ Republican: Men should be allowed to grab breastfeeding women’s nipples in public
A self-described “pro-family” conservative said on Facebook he should be allowed to grab the nipples of breastfeeding mothers if a law banning women exposing breasts in public didn’t pass.
New Hampshire state Rep. Josh Moore (R) deleted the comment, but it was archived and posted by (Link): Slate.
The comment was made in a squabble over proposed legislation that would make it a crime for women to expose their nipples in public.
Currently in New Hampshire, both men and women are free to go topless, reports Slate.
A bill sponsored solely by Republican men would change that, if it becomes law.
A woman could be charged with a misdemeanor if she “purposely exposes the areola or nipple of her breast or breasts in a public place and in the presence of another person with reckless disregard for whether a reasonable person would be offended or alarmed by such act.”
New Hampshire State Rep. Amanda Bouldin (D) took to Facebook to criticize the bill and call out her male, Republican “small government” colleagues. That’s when things got awkward.
(Link): Here is Moore’s response, including typos and errors.
“Who doesn’t support a mothers right to feed?” Moore responded. “Don’t give me the liberal talking points Amanda. If it’s a woman’s natural inclination to pull her nipple out in public and you support that, than you should have no problem with a mans [inclination] to stare at it and grab it. After all, it’s ALL relative and natural, right?”
If that wasn’t bad enough, Moore’s fellow Republican, State Rep. Al Baldasaro, (Link): chimed in to further harass Bouldin.
“Amanada, No disrespect, but your nipple would be the last one I would want to see,” Baldasaro said. “You want to turn our family beach’s into a pervert show. Liberterians want a nude beach, put your money together and buy one, if you want to expose you kids to nudity, go for it. Some of us liberty minded Reps do beleive in family values.”
Constituents criticized the law, and also the responses of Moore and Baldasaro.
“I have no words,” one woman wrote. “Unbelievable and discriminatory to women and babies … I’d be proud to be on the sex offenders list for breastfeeding in public and I’d rake the courts through the mud on national television!”
“I can’t believe how backwards things have gone, my children are 21, 23 & 25, all breastfed, YES IN PUBLIC as well as in my home and I NEVER had any problems with anyone about it,” another wrote. “I’m just shocked by this absurdity against the most natural thing in this world!”
On Moore’s social media profiles, he identifies himself as a “pro-family” lawmaker who “love God, Country, guns and family.” Moore also claims he likes to pass his time by beatboxing.
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