Hooters: Still boils down to food

Okay, I'm from Texas and I was reading a local Mommy magazine - there was an article about a woman who took her children to a public pool and when her baby got hungry she decided to nurse. Common practice, as babies get hungry and mom's have the built in equipment to take care of this need. Well....this set the pool employees in a tizzy. GASP - A bare breast (covered of course by a very big baby head which is larger than most swimsuit tops) in a swimming pool atmosphere!? Apparently, this act could cause a lifeguard to take not just a double take, but a triple take, thereby potentially allowing enough time for someone to drown. This is a middle aged mom with three kids providing nourishment to her youngest child, showing a glimpse of a bare breast -- somehow I think a lifeguard could curtail their triple take. The solution to her refusal to stop nursing was to cover her and the baby up with a towel. Did I mention I'm from Texas where it's 100 degrees in the summer....so not much of a solution. Boils down to the crappy Texas law which allows for a woman to breast feed in any public establishment - although does not seem to stop management of said public institutions from trying to strong arm women into ceasing and desisting irregardless of the law. And apparently law does not cover private institutions, so a restaurant can ask you to leave (maybe pissed cuz baby not buying a plate?!)

This whole debacle begs the question, when did breast feeding become such a spectacle. Every woman who has a child has the ability to feed it from her own body - It's like a built in margarita machine, but with milk instead. Whether she does or not is completely up to her, but we're talking about a lot of people and a lot of breasts. They are just boobs! But then we live in a society with a restaurant called Hooters, really my expectations should not be so high. Some days, we seem to have taken quite a few steps backwards...