Because tits are scary just like spiders
February 8, 2014 11:45 PM   Subscribe

Everyone knows new mothers are ex-hib-ition-ists
Taking every chance they get to ruin your day with tits...

Possibly NSFW. No real nudity but two women and a chorus sing the word 'tits'.
posted by Kerasia (11 comments total) 7 users marked this as a favorite
 
I don't understand those feather epaulettes.
posted by sandettie light vessel automatic at 4:00 AM on February 9, 2014 [1 favorite]


They're like the Australian version of Garfunkel and Oates (in which case, I approve).
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 4:49 AM on February 9, 2014


Good song. At first i thought it was not sarcastic, but then i understood it was.

I don't understand my own thoughts on this topic. I firmly believe that allowing mothers to nurse without stigma is essential if we want both (a) gender equality, and (b) babies to exist. Nursing stigma forces women to be less productive in the workplace, and, as this video so aptly illustrates, a target of negative feelings by others.

On the other hand, in the one single situation where a coworker breastfed at work, I felt a little put out. I felt it was not professional, in the same way that picking one's nose or scratching one's bum would not be professional.

I don't know why I feel that way. My guess is that it's either because of patriarchal moral programming which states that ewe tits my day is ruined, or it's a result of feeling like it's breaking the dress code, and if we can break it by showing tits, then what good is a dress code anyway?

Both these reasons sound silly to me.
posted by rebent at 5:39 AM on February 9, 2014 [2 favorites]


How things might look to newborns: Woody Allen's giant boob scene from Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972). Largely NSFW...
posted by cenoxo at 6:51 AM on February 9, 2014


That's great.
posted by cashman at 8:40 AM on February 9, 2014


Not just a song about respect for nursing mothers, but it also recommending what seems to be a great café to go to if you're ever in Canberra.
posted by ambrosen at 9:00 AM on February 9, 2014 [1 favorite]


Yay. Breast feeding!


I as watching this and thinking "Hey, I recognise one of the people dancing there .... Huh..." Then I realised it was made in my hometown. Of course! I always recognise SOMEBODY, if it's Canberra. Ona Coffee seems like a nice thing to have sprung up in recent years too.
posted by jujulalia at 11:21 AM on February 9, 2014 [1 favorite]


I felt it was not professional, in the same way that picking one's nose or scratching one's bum would not be professional.

You'd probably also think that making a non-business family-related telephone call was unprofessional, right? So your sentiment is not unreasonable. Everything "not work" is unprofessional if you do it in the office, your workplace. You're naturally reacting as you would to any office behaviour that was not explicitly work-oriented.

So if we want to have breast-feeding in the office, we need to make it "work". Which I think we are kind of moving to do: breast-feeding is work, because childcare is work. Some of our colleagues get childcare responsibilities, just like some of our colleagues get soldiering responsibilities when they join the army reserves. It's up to our employers to make appropriate adjustment to contracts and work practices, and if our employers are okay with it, then we should be too.
posted by alasdair at 11:55 AM on February 9, 2014 [1 favorite]


I think "at work" is different than "in public" with regard to breastfeeding. People need to get over being upset that a woman is sitting on a bench at the zoo or in the booth at the restaurant breastfeeding a baby. Both are places where one expects to see babies and therefore, one might expect that they would be fed there.

Work is an environment with very specific rules and generally babies are very disruptive to work rules whether they are being fed or not. Like alasdair says, we don't have babies at work. So, why would we have breastfeeding at work?

Note: this is different from workplaces accommodating pregnancy or childcare needs or even breast-milk-pumping needs. But I think it's certainly possible to make workplaces fair to mothers and eliminate the dumb stigma against breastfeeding in public while it remaining unprofessional to breastfeed in your cubicle or the conference room.
posted by crush-onastick at 2:08 PM on February 9, 2014 [1 favorite]


I really want those feather pauldrons. I'd like them better if they were attached to something that made more sense than a t-shirt, but I still want them. They'd make me feel like a mage in Dragon Age.
posted by NoraReed at 5:24 PM on February 9, 2014 [1 favorite]


When I was a college sophmore I took a year abroad to study spanish in Costa Rica. I had just arrived and my Spanish was horrible so I was shy and embarrassed, so when my host mother held a meeting of her women's group at their home I tried to hide out and read on the quiet patio and stay out of the way. Unbenknownst to me the patio was designated as the breastfeeding area. Suddenly I was beset with breasts! I was already embarrassed and trying to hide, but now I had to struggle through conversations with a group of bare chested women (no modest one-nip-slips here, these women were just straight up topless). While this all sounds great for a 19 year old straight guy and while I was the one invading their space and I'm glad they felt so free about it all, I just kinda just wanted to melt into the furniture.
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 5:37 AM on February 10, 2014 [1 favorite]


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